India has sought Japan's assistance in setting up more urban transportation systems. Japan has already been extending financial assistance for the construction of Delhi Metro.
Ready mix concrete manufacturer ACC Concrete, a subsidiary of ACC Ltd., introduced a self compacting concrete solution M-100 grade which is designed for the construction of high intensity towers.
As a result of this Group-wide reorganisation, Martin Kriegner has been appointed CEO of Lafarge India with responsibility for all of Lafarge’s cement, aggregates and concrete activities in the country.
State-owned NMDC signed a MoU with RINL for developing a slurry pipeline of about 450 Km from Jagdalpur to Vishkhapatnam and a 3-4 Mtpa Pellet Plant at Visakhapatnam.
In an aim to give a major push to the important infrastructure sectors, the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh called for a meeting to finalise the targets for infrastructure for the fiscal 2012-13.
Metro projects should be restricted to cities with over 5 million population and all urban transport costs should be borne by cities themselves through user charges and fiscal imports
Due to the vast amounts of information involved, the structural BIM solution needs to be a totally flexible open solution, allowing modern computer architecture to support the engineering design platform requirements
According to Dr. BS Bhooshan, “Sustainability, with a plethora of definitions and interpretations is a notion concerned with leaving the world for future generations, unchanged ecologically as we inherited”
