FIDIC GIC 2026: Engineering a Shared Future

Women in leadership create ripples of empowerment far beyond the workplace

With experience across public service, corporate leadership and entrepreneurship, Meena Chaturvedi, Vice Chairman, Gainwell, offers a distinctive perspective on a construction and equipment sector being reshaped by technology, sustainability and inclusion.What are the most significant changes reshaping the construction and heavy equipment sector, amid rapid advances in technology, sustainability and evolving customer expectations?I have been watching and participating in the evolution of this sector for over a decade now. I feel that it is at an inflection point today with three major ena..

Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport

An airport terminal is designed to move people. But the new terminal at Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport (LGBIA), Guwahati, attempts something larger – it seeks to make people experience a place even before they step outside.Spread across nearly 1.4 lakh sq m and designed to handle over 13 million passengers annually, the new terminal represents a major expansion of Assam’s aviation infrastructure. For construction leaders, its significance goes beyond scale and aesthetics. The real achievement lies in bringing together architectural elements, structural systems, MEP networ..

Steel construction can be done faster, cleaner and safer

As India enters an intensive phase of infrastructure and urban development, the construction industry will need to rethink not just how much it builds, but how it builds. In a conversation with PRATAP PADODE, Editor-in-Chief, CW, Jayant Acharya, Joint Managing Director and CEO, JSW Steel, discusses the growing role of structural steel, prefabrication, advanced grades and technology in enabling faster, cleaner and safer construction.India is preparing to consume substantially more steel. But how do you expect the construction sector’s steel requirement to change – not merely in tonnes, but ..