By Sibani Sarma India has made enormous strides at the global platform over the past two decades. Some even say that India is one of the superpowers today. Irrespective of the appropriateness of an adjective to describe India, the fact remains that India today garners more worldwide recognition than it did fifteen or twenty years. [...]
By Sibani Sarma With a limited land supply along with a huge gap between demand and supply for individual plots, apartments or sites; developers are now cashing on developing integrated townships in the suburban areas. According to a McKinsey Global Institute report, ‘India’s urban awakening : Building inclusive cities, sustaining economic growth,’ India would need [...]
By Sibani Sarma In December 2011 RICS in partnership with SamCircle ventures, Projectwell and KieranTimberlake launched a concrete panel based prefabricated mass housing concept. A white paper titled ‘India Concept House – manufacturing and assembling of an affordable, quick to build and sustainable mass housing solution for Indian cities’ was released by R.V. Verma, CMD, [...]
By Sibani Sarma In December 2011 RICS in partnership with SamCircle ventures, Projectwell and KieranTimberlake launched a concrete panel based prefabricated mass housing concept. A white paper titled ‘India Concept House – manufacturing and assembling of an affordable, quick to build and sustainable mass housing solution for Indian cities’ was released by R.V. Verma, CMD, [...]
By Sibani Sarma In December 2011 RICS in partnership with SamCircle ventures, Projectwell and KieranTimberlake launched a concrete panel based prefabricated mass housing concept. A white paper titled ‘India Concept House – manufacturing and assembling of an affordable, quick to build and sustainable mass housing solution for Indian cities’ was released by R.V. Verma, CMD, [...]
By Sibani Sarma In December 2011 RICS in partnership with SamCircle ventures, Projectwell and KieranTimberlake launched a concrete panel based prefabricated mass housing concept. A white paper titled ‘India Concept House – manufacturing and assembling of an affordable, quick to build and sustainable mass housing solution for Indian cities’ was released by R.V. Verma, CMD, [...]
By Sibani Sarma As an Urban Planner working for the last 5 years in small and big locations, I have understood one thing that in order to restore the aura of Ancient Indian cities that existed in past, it is appropriate to concentrate on sustainability in energy usage, transportation and city administration while implementing any [...]
By Sibani Sarma India is known as a land of opportunities; leads for those people who want to contribute their efforts in providing better quality affordable housing solution for common man. With such a high density of people in urban areas along with huge pressure on natural resources; it is a pertinent to provide affordable [...]
By Sibani Sarma Tell us something about yourself and your experience working with iDream as the Design Head. Mr. Anant Mahadik is Mumbai Head, iDream and a Designer by profession. I have been associated with iDream since the past two and a half years as Mumbai Design Head. It has been a very good experience, [...]
By Sibani Sarma In the Indian context, the use of prefabrication building techniques in construction has many advantages. Recently, the use of prefabricated construction has increased in many housing projects. Advantages of prefabrication of building materials are multiple, as the components are ready and self-sustaining. In this technology, the formwork and scaffolding is removed, resulting [...]