Interviews

'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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India is the fastest growing market for us, says Managing Director, Toshiba Johnson Elevators (India)

01 Dec 2017

Being the second largest elevator market in the world, India is one of the biggest growth prospects for Toshiba Johnson Elevators (India) (TJEI).

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It is time we see an action-oriented approach from the industry

01 Dec 2017

'It is time we see an action-oriented approach from the industry,' says Hardeep S Puri, Minister of State, Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry Affordable housing has been accorded 'infrastructure status'under the harmonised master list of infrastructure subsectors.

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It is in our own interest that we incorporate resource efficiencies into our planning process, says Sanjay Seth, TERI

01 Nov 2018

With a mission to attain a cleaner and sustainable future, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), along with the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India (GoI), established Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA) Council to promote the development of green buildings and habitats in India.

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Demand for ultra-high-speed lifts is increasing, says MD, Kone Elevators India

01 Oct 2017

With the vision to create the best people-flow experience, Kone provides industry-leading elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as innovative solutions for modernisation and maintenance.

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We will be launching at least two different models of compressors, says Nitin Lall, GM, Power Technique Customer Center, Atlas Copco India

01 Aug 2018

This is what Atlas Copco in India offers its customers. With manufacturing facilities in Pune, Chakan, Nashik and Hyderabad, the company has two engineering competency centres - for compressors and construction and mining equipment - and manufactures vacuum equipment, industrial power tools, and construction and mining equipment.

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We are looking at prefabricated panels, lightweight panels and flat slabs for residential floors, says Jairam Panch, Turner Project Management India

01 Sep 2017

In the US, Turner is the No. 1 builder in the healthcare, university, hotel, office, and green building sectors; the No. 2 builder for airport facilities; and the No. 3 builder in sports facilities and reconstruction sectors.

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