PM Modi installs ‘Sengol’ in Lok Sabha, inaugurates new Parliament building
The inauguration ceremony of India’s new Parliament building has kicked off today. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla have arrived at the new Parliament building and they were seen attending the puja and havan. The Prime Minister also installed the…
Uttarakhand’s 1st Vande Bharat Express on May 25
Good news for rail commuters! Indian Railways is going to introduce new Vande Bharat Express for the state of Uttarakhand. This new train will be launched on May 25, 2023 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This is going to be the sixth semi-high speed…
Space-based Construction Technology for Moon exploration
ICON, a pioneer in advanced construction technologies and large-scale 3D printing, announced that it has been awarded a contract under NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program’s Phase III. This $57.5 million NASA grant will be used to develop space-based construction technology…
Grass to build energy-efficient building panels
With housing shortages in need of quick fixes, the manufacturing industry is facing a conundrum: how to source materials and build structures while cutting down on emissions. The answer lies with sustainable construction — not only could it help reduce…
The Latest Technology Advances In Low-Carbon Construction Are Promising
Leaps in technology are making it easier to build structures with fewer negative impacts and potentially reduce climate change, but more must be done to accelerate their widespread use. Increasing attention is on embodied carbon-amounts of CO2 emitted during the…
Indian Retail Loans Overview, Equifax and Andromeda report
As much as 34 lakh home loans totaling Rs 9 lakh crore were disbursed during the year ending December 2022 of which the less than Rs 25 lakh ticket size category accounted for the maximum number of disbursals, revealed a…
Registration of new projects after verification of CC from June 19
The Maharashtra Real Estate Regulatory Authority (MahaRERA) will grant registrations for new projects from June 19 only after verification of commencement certificates (CCs) issued by the local authorities. The regulatory authority has made it mandatory for the local authorities to send the…
Ghaziabad-Aligarh Expressway; 100 Km Constructed in Record 100 Hours
In a major achievement for India’s road infrastructure, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) constructed 100 km bituminous concrete road in a record time of 100 hours. The laying of Bituminous Concrete took place on the Ghaziabad-Aligarh Expressway in Uttar…
Building materials are getting a sustainable makeover
On her travels after earning a master’s degree in sustainable design from Design Academy Eindhoven, she discovered the India chai cup — an unfired clay mug that gets discarded in the ground for decomposition at the end of its useful…
India’s Real Estate Sector sees three-fold rise
During the six-year period from 2017 to 2022, India received cumulative foreign institutional inflows of USD26.6Bn into real estate, a three-fold rise from the preceding six-year period. Foreign investments in India have been on the rise over the last few…