Kobelco Construction Machinery, a group company of Kobe Steel, Ltd., inaugurated its first manufacturing plant in India to manufacture hydraulic excavators, enabling Kobelco to make a full-scale entry into India’s rapidly growing Construction Equipment Market. This plant will be the first manufacturing facility of the Kobe Steel Group in India.
Elevator manufacturer Otis India is expanding its existing elevator factory in Bangalore. Once completed in spring 2012, the expanded facility will be three-times the size of the current factory and will include a test tower. The new 27,500 square-meter manufacturing facility will incorporate leading Otis technologies from all over the world
Siemens to supply the complete railway electrification system for Kolkata’s new metro line. The company has received a corresponding order from the Indian operator Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC), including the project management, design, installation and commissioning work, plus personnel training and maintenance throughout the three-year warranty period.
SNC-Lavalin Infrastructure (Bangalore) was involved in design and construction of an arch bridge project in Bhutan incorporating several innovative features making it a landmark bridge. S Sengupta, Dy. CEO underlines the technology involved in building this bridge
Bridges connect people. They bridge dividers; rivers, gorges and at times seas. They are catalysts to development of regions, otherwise cut off from each other, and become part of the life of humans, their economy and culture. Very often they also become landmarks and at times, iconic structures very much like historic buildings or skyscrapers. Jose Kurian, Chief Engineer, Delhi Tourism and Transportation Development Corporation shares his expertise on bridge designing
Kalpataru Power Transmission Ltd (KPTL), one of the leading global EPC players in power and infrastructure contracting sector has secured new orders worth Rs. 950 cr. “KPTL has won 3 contracts from Power Grid Corp namely 400 kv Krishnapatnum UMPP to Gooty Transmission line, 765 kv Jabalpur Pool to Bina Transmission line...
In an attempt to tackle the constant price rise and fluctuations in cement prices, the Builders Association of India (BAI) has decided to stand together and set up its own plants to produce the key building material - cement.
C N Raghavendran, eminent architect from Chennai, has been honoured with the Padma Shri. Born on March 14, 1944, Ar. Raghavendran received his bachelor’s degree from IIT Kharagpur in 1965 and master of architecture degree from university of California at Berkeley, USA in 1967.
Stating that road design should not be an ad-hoc generalisation to justify adopting some inferior and unsafe features to save money, surface transport and highways minister C P Joshi said finding the appropriate balance should be foremost priority that could be assisted by objective research.
The NDR Group (NDR), one of India’s leading logistics service providers, announced that an affiliate of Warburg Pincus, the global private equity firm, is making an investment of up to US$100 million in NDR, for a minority ownership stake in its flagship company, Continental Warehousing Corporation (Nhava Seva) Limited (CWCNSL).
