Mechanization in Construction of Housing and Commercial Infrastructure
Rambabu Cheruvu, Director, Con Mech Auto Consultants (I) P. Ltd, Hyderabad.
A massive growth is taking place in India in the infrastructure segments. From the year 2000 a growth at 9% per annum has been consistently recorded and it is expected to continue and grow further. We have seen the growth kick started by the golden quadrilateral project followed by the rehabilitation of large number of slums in many major metros. The reality boom in the country is by product of our success from the IT sectors and other fast growing services. The Planning Commission is all set to layout a lions–share of the total budget allocations for the rural infrastructure along with large number of power projects. With the growth in the field of infrastructure, several new challenges have emerged in various forms and these can be listed as:
- Massive scale and number of the projects
- Stringent time stipulations
- Quality and safety insistence from the promoters
- Unimaginable and unexpected rise/jump in the prices of commodities (steel, cement, bricks, sand etc.) essentially required for the infrastructure project development.
- Alternate processes and looking at out of box solutions which have become the order of the day.
