Balancing Infrastructure Growth and Environment

In order to make the country self-reliant, India needs to invest heavily in infrastructure to ensure increased & constant production and the movement of commodities across the economy. Infrastructure development has huge economic and environmental cost for any country. They can significantly impact the local climate, landscape, population and culture. If not planned properly, these…

Development Finance Institute

Establishment of Development Finance Institute (DFI) to address the issue of long-term infrastructure financing in the entire infrastructure sector will boost the economic growth of the nation and help in coming out of Covid-19 shock. Infrastructure finance has always been an issue in the country, it seemed even more difficult as the country was about…

Role of IT in Infrastructure

The 21st Century is highly dependent on Information Technology (IT). It has touched and influenced every aspect of the modern life. The advent of IT has changed the way people communicate, study, travel, build, plan and everything else. Infrastructure, like every other facet of modern life, is also hugely dependent on IT. Whether its planning,…

BIM helping build Smart Cities

It is estimated that by the year 2030, approximately 600 million Indians will be living in urban areas. The agencies are extensively making the use of ICT along with geospatial data to make cities cleaner, safer, energy efficient, low carbon emitters and disaster resilient. In simpler words, government is trying to make the cities as…

Factors driving real estate investments in 2020

India could be amongst the worst affected countries from climate change owing to the stage of development the country is right now in. The GoI is gradually pushing for sustainability and eco-friendliness of the real estate projects. Projects with minimum environmental impact, sustainable concepts and climate friendly technologies are getting faster approvals & support. This…

Aerotropolis: Opportunities & Challenges

In the past, airports have put themselves in the outskirts of towns, thereby reducing the spatial disconnection. This hampered significant economic growth in the future. As the economy grew, airports became strategic economic hub in new cities. Significant growth of aviation business in coming decades and position of India and its socio-political stability require to…

GIS and BIM: Integration of Two Disruptive Technology

GIS (Geographical Information System) and BIM (Building Information Modelling) are two disruptive technologies that have massively impacted way traditional work was done. Both opened new avenues to store and analyze massive volume of data, made visualizing information possible like never before, changed the way projects were planned, saved time and thereby money. Both technologies operate…

Smart Water Management

The Indian government in June 2015 initiated “Smart Cities Mission”. However, with growing numbers of people moving from rural areas in search of economic growth and higher living standards to urban areas, the pattern of resource usage is rapidly unbalanced. The main structures of smart cities, including transport, municipal services, education, public safety and health,…

Software & AEC Sector

Construction Industry has gone massively digital today, and procedures streamlined, from planning to execution of final delivery. The emphasis is not on isolated approaches but on an interconnected framework and application of holistic network that interacts and communicates with each other. For a long time, the country’s technology providers like RIPL have pioneered the cause,…