The plan is to make the 6 lane elevated road on single poles, which would also make six lanes available for traffic movement, beneath the 22.5 km elevated highway, connecting Rajiv Chowk with Sohna. The likely project cost is around Rs 1,385 crore.
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The complex layered history of Lebanon’s capital city is summed up in the design of Herzog & de Meuron’s latest residential high-rise, Beirut Terraces. Constructed adjacent to a new marina — an area undergoing major revitalization.
The 119-meter-tall [390 feet] project is characterized by a series of stacked setback apartments with large overhanging terraces. Essentially a layered pattern of horizontal slabs or floor plates with gaps for living spaces in between, the building offers a unique setting for its tenants to reap the benefits of indoor and outdoor living. Beirut’s moderate climate attracts this vibrant outdoor urban culture
Source: Beirut Terraces
India’s first smart and green highway — Eastern Peripheral Expressway — the 135-km, nearly Rs 11,000 crore access-controlled six-lane expressway, for decongesting Delhi will be completed in August 2017. The Expressway will set a benchmark in highway construction by being environment-friendly with world-class safety features and smart/interactive infrastructure. Read On
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India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO) is set to overhaul Delhi’s iconic Pragati Maidan Exhibition Complex, & aims to provide India a state-of-the-art World Convention Centre.
Read More 83[ I ] 28/04/20172Through this strategic partnership with Resysta, RIL is looking forward to produce the RelWood compound exclusively in order to meet the fast-growing demand of real alternative to tropical wood
Source: RIL partners with Resysta to bring wood alternative in India
Architecture firm Snøhetta has unveiled plans for a faceted office building in Norway, set to become the first in the country to produce more energy than it consumes. The diamond-shaped form maximises the building’s ability to function as a collector of solar energy, via a large area of photovoltaic panels on the south-facing angled roof. Solar cells, heat exchangers and heat pumps also produce electricity and heat for the building.
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WEF: Shaping the Future of Construction: Insights
This white paper presents the outcome of this work in the form of insight articles proposing innovative solutions on how to address the construction sector’s key challenges in the following fundamental challenge areas:
1. Project Delivery – Creating certainty of timely delivery and to budget, and generally improving the productivity of the construction sector
2. Life cycle Performance – Reducing the life cycle costs of assets and designing for re-use
3. Sustainability – Achieving carbon-neutral assets and reducing waste in the course of construction
4. Affordability – Creating high-quality, affordable infrastructure and housing
5. Disaster Resilience – Making infrastructure and buildings resilient to climate change and natural disasters
6. Flexibility, Liveability and Well-being – Creating infrastructure and buildings that improve the well-being of end-users
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WEF Shaping the Future of Construction: A Breakthrough in Mindset and Technology
Thirty measures are presented in the report, Shaping the Future of Construction: A Breakthrough in Mindset and Technology as part of a construction “industry transformation framework”. The report describes and promotes the effort needed by all stakeholders for the industry to fully realize its potential for change.
Source: WEF Shaping the Future of Construction: Breakthrough
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| Shaping the Future of Construction: Inspiring innovators redefine the industry |
From Original Source here, dated 01/03/2017, read excerpts:
3D-printed houses, automatically designed hospitals, prefabricated skyscrapers — once futuristic dreams are now a reality as described in the new report Shaping the Future of Construction: Inspiring innovators redefine the industry developed with the World Economic Forum. It showcases and analyses 10 Lighthouse innovation cases – prominent flagship projects as well as start-ups and pilot projects – that demonstrate the potential of innovation in construction and give a glimpse of the industry’s future.
From Original Source here , dated 01/03/2017, read excerpts:
Relative to other industries, productivity in construction has stalled over the past 50 years. Technology was not making any fundamental advances, and companies remained averse to changing their traditional methods. Recently, however, transformative technological developments have emerged, and some pioneering firms have adopted them for current projects. These developments – 3D printing, building information modeling, wireless sensing and autonomous equipment, to name just a few – are already starting to turn traditional business models upside down.
24Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, have put a crystalline palace for music in the air, albeit on top of a large warehouse in Hamburg, with a hotel, apartments and car park added to the brief, at the cost of €860m.
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