"Total construction volumes range between $ 200 - $300 billion annually"

08 Jul 2021 CW Team

- Sameer Nayar, Founder and CEO, BuildSupply

Construction and building materials procurement, which accounts for 65-70% of the total cost of a construction project, suffers from several challenges such as high lead time, lack of process transparency leading to leakages, inefficient price discovery, among others. With this in mind, BuildSupply, a digital building material store, provides major construction and building materials online from several building material suppliers and manufacturers, thus, addressing and simplifying the user-flow for complex procurement scenarios. This in turn helps real estate developers and contractors automate workflows in the development and construction process.

In an exclusive video interview with Pratap Padode, Editor-in-Chief, CONSTRUCTION WORLD, Sameer Nayar, Founder and CEO, BuildSupply, discusses the digital transformation in the construction industry, the construction software market post COVID, and more...

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