For an industry tasked with building the future, construction has an uneasy relationship with it. India is entering what many describe as a once-in-a-generation build cycle. “What we have not constructed in the last 200 years, we are going to construct in the next 20 years,” observed Naushad Panjwani, Chairman, Mandarus Partners. The scale is unprecedented. The urgency is undeniable. And yet, the sector continues to lag, held back not by lack of technology, but by something far more entrenched: Mindset.

Very quickly, the conversation moved beyond familiar territory – AI, BIM, digital twins – and zeroed in on a deeper issue: fragmentation. Subodh Dixit, former director, Shapoorji Pallonji, articulated it with clarity...