Infrastructure
India’s Vertical Quest
VERTICAL LIMITS WHAT STOPS INDIA FROM TESTING HIGHER GROUNDS?
By Preeti Parashar / Indian Express
As the world’s tallest building, the 828-metreBurj Khalifa, alters the skyline of Dubai, other nations look on to join the race of tallest skyscrapers! Countries across the globe have been modifying their policies for developers and engineers to innovate and explore new [...]
Entrepreneurship in Public Infrastructure
It is no surprise that India has a booming communication infrastructure when it comes to mobile phones. The early problems of under-capacity all seem to have vanished and thousands jump on the mobile bandwagon everyday.
However, the exact opposite happens with physical infrastructure, especially intra city transportation. Traffic in most cities is nightmarish and it [...]
Bureaucracy and other spanners in India’s works
By DAVID LASCELLES / Business Day
THE world has become so accustomed to labelling India as one of the world’s great engines of growth — alongside China — that it comes as a bit of a shock to discover that the reality is a little less dazzling.
Concrete and chaos are the best words to describe [...]
Tallest in Asia: Maharashtra moots Asia’s tallest tower
This article appeared in the Business Standard today. Is it just me or does anyone else think this is a really ridiculous idea? Just building tall for the heck of it makes no sense at all. There is no infrastructure to support such a tower, and getting into the tallest tower race is really doomed. [...]
India in My Rear-View Mirror
By PETER WONACOTT in the Wall Street Journal
In China’s Southwest Sichuan province, the road to enlightenment is a superhighway.
In about 90 minutes, the highway zips travelers 180 kilometers from the provincial capital of Chengdu to the former farming hamlet of Leshan, home to a sitting Buddha that is more than 230-feet tall and 1,200 years [...]
Wadala Tower and Interstate Bus Terminal to be India’s Tallest Building.
Work on the Rs 4,000-crore, 531-mt tall iconic tower to come up at Wadala is slated to start in October. It will be the world’s seventh
tallest structure with a built-up area of 60,000 lakh sq ft, the largest among such buildings in the world.
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) commissioner, Ratnakar Gaikwad, [...]
Bandra Worli Sea Link
Good friend and journalist Rahul Bhatia writes about the Bandra-Worli Sea Link in a recent weekly edition of the OPEN Magazine.
On the sea link that will soon connect Bandra to Worli, fifteen men swept, tarred, and patted a stretch no longer than five meters with uncommon urgency. Noxious tar, fresh off a machine that rolled [...]
Centre for Urban Planning, Infrastructure set up in Bangalore
Centre for infrastructure and sustainable transport and urban planning has been set up at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) here.
Established with a corpus of Rs.300 million/Rs. 30 crore/$6 mn, it is the first such government-academia facility in the country that will address urban planning and critical infrastructure issues arising out of rapid growth [...]
Mumbai: Big Steps in Infrastructure in 2009
The new year will be a busy one for the infrastructure sector as some prestigious projects finally see completion and with others scheduled to take off. The much touted Bandra-Worli Sealink, an urban haat in Navi Mumbai on the lines of Dilli Haat, eight flyovers on the Western and Eastern express highways and 50 skywalks [...]
Building urban India
That we really don’t know what India’s urban infrastructure price tag is going to be is a big challenge
by Ramesh Ramanathan
India’s cities face many challenges, and one looms larger than the rest: How much will it cost to build our urban infrastructure?
Among the recent sources of urban infrastructure cost estimations are:
—From [...]
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