Interviews

There is an increasing demand for innovative and efficient facades - Dr Prashanth Reddy, Managing Director, FunderMax India

01 Oct 2018

The Indian façade and fenestration market is likely to touch Rs 150 billion by FY2020. Urbanisation in India has opened up newer avenues for the real estate sector. There is churn in developers shifting their focus to affordable housing projects.

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We are bringing in expertise that can be made available to 100 cities in India - Nadir Patel, High Commissioner for Canada to India

01 Oct 2018

Twenty-eight leading Canadian urban infrastructure, Internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) companies visited India last month to explore collaboration opportunities with Indian businesses in the infrastructure and smart cities sector.

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The biggest change in our industry will be the Internet of Things, says Ashok Ramachandran, CEO, Schindler India & South Asia

01 Sep 2018

Schindler India, a 100-per-cent owned subsidiary of the Schindler Group established in Switzerland in 1874, is among the leading providers of elevators and escalators.

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Railway station development is an area that needs to be focussed upon, says Rajeev Mehrotra, CMD, RITES

01 Sep 2018

The first state-run railway company to launch an IPO, RITES is a leading player in transport, consultancy and engineering in India. In 44 years since its inception, the company has undertaken projects in over 55 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, South America and the Middle East.

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Our market penetration and overall market share will increase

01 Jul 2018

Silicone is among the most versatile materials gaining momentum across industries and geographies. With this in mind, Dow Consumer Solutions, a business unit of Dow Chemical International (Dow India), recently rebranded its silicone-based portfolio 'DOWSIL'.

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We are working on increasing our lines for different locations, says Mahendra Jain, MD, Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation

01 Jun 2018

It is progressing well. Currently, we are operating two lines - North-South and East-West - that span over 42.8 km with a ridership of over 400,000 commuters every day.

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'GST for all housing should be at 6 per cent instead of 12 per cent,' says Dr Niranjan Hiranandani, National President, NAREDCO

01 Feb 2018

In September 2017, Niranjan Hiranandani, Chairman & Managing Director, Hiranandani Group, was elected the National President of the National Real Estate Development Council (NAREDCO). Under the aegis of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, NAREDCO works with the government to achieve its 'Housing for All' objective.

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"We have just floated the tenders for PPP projects," says Ibrahim Adoor, MD, Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development & Finance Corporation

01 May 2018

In an exclusive interaction with CW, Ibrahim Adoor, Managing Director, Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development & Finance Corporation (KUIDFC), describes how the state is looking beyond Bengaluru as far as the IT sector is concerned, at pockets like Mysuru, Hubli and Mangaluru

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"We are open for financial bids and hope to start construction in April," says RL Mopalwar, VC & MD, MSRDC

01 Apr 2018

Being executed by the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC), the initial plan for the Samruddhi Corridor - popularly known as the Nagpur-Mumbai super expressway - was for construction to begin in July 2017 and Phase-1 to be over by October 2019.

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'The new powder coatings facility in Mumbai has a capacity of about 5,500 tonne," says Thierry Vanlancker, CEO, AkzoNobel NV, and Jayakumar Krishnaswamy, MD, AkzoNobel India

01 Apr 2018

AkzoNobel India, among the largest global manufacturers of powder coatings, recently inaugurated its powder coatings facility in Mumbai, with an investment of Rs 650 million.

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"Brigade Financial Centre at GIFT City is seen as a strategic and financially dominating project," says Vishal Mirchandani, CEO, Retail and Commercial, Brigade Group

01 Apr 2018

Talk about a milestone! Bengaluru-based Brigade Group, among India's leading real-estate developers, recently had an exclusive preview of Brigade Financial Centre (BFC), located in Gujarat International Finance-Tec City (GIFT City), which is India's first operational smart city and India's only International Financial Services Centre (IFSC).

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The goal is to facilitate the construction of 1 million affordable houses over the next 10 years," says Head-Green Buildings Business, ACC

01 Dec 2017

Based on the triple bottom-line approach, ACC's Green Buildings Business has seen a rapid upscale in the past year.

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