A Leap Forward!
Technology

A Leap Forward!

Salmon Leap, which began in 2002 as an advisory company, later formed a subsidiary, HoMMission, to manufacture precast, prefinished volumetric buildings. It has delivered residential, commercial, institutional, office, ready-to-use buildings and amenities across India and entered the retail market by manufacturing individual villas. With the Government’s mission is to build 30 million houses, the company aims to standardise and manufacture these homes efficiently, says SJ Vijay, Founder and Chairman, Salmon Leap Ventures, in conversation with R SRINIVASAN. Excerpts:

Please take us through the company’s journey. Also, why the name ‘Salmon Leap’ and what inspired you to foray into 3-D monolithic modular precast construction?
Salmon Leap is the parent and policy advisory company and HoMMission manufactures buildings as products. While seeking the fastest way to create stronger and better buildings, we went hunting for ‘modern methods of construction’. Construction is labour-intensive. Second, it tends to be fragmented and because it is manual and fragmented, you have the inevitable challenge of doing it step by step. So, manual, fragmented and sequential – these are the fundamental problems in construction...

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Salmon Leap, which began in 2002 as an advisory company, later formed a subsidiary, HoMMission, to manufacture precast, prefinished volumetric buildings. It has delivered residential, commercial, institutional, office, ready-to-use buildings and amenities across India and entered the retail market by manufacturing individual villas. With the Government’s mission is to build 30 million houses, the company aims to standardise and manufacture these homes efficiently, says SJ Vijay, Founder and Chairman, Salmon Leap Ventures, in conversation with R SRINIVASAN. Excerpts:Please take us through the company’s journey. Also, why the name ‘Salmon Leap’ and what inspired you to foray into 3-D monolithic modular precast construction?Salmon Leap is the parent and policy advisory company and HoMMission manufactures buildings as products. While seeking the fastest way to create stronger and better buildings, we went hunting for ‘modern methods of construction’. Construction is labour-intensive. Second, it tends to be fragmented and because it is manual and fragmented, you have the inevitable challenge of doing it step by step. So, manual, fragmented and sequential – these are the fundamental problems in construction...To read the full story Click Here

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