8 Imperatives of Covid19 on Construction Industry in India (Part 2 of 2)

Continued from here… Post my Part 1 post, I am overwhelmed by the response I received from many professional associates & well-wishers both on my blog, Linkedin and Whatsapp posts. There is a common thread running through all reactions expressing their deep concern on the changes that may happen to our industry, the plight of […]

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8 Imperatives of Covid19 on Construction Industry in India (Part 1 of 2)

The unthinkable has already happened and here we are now grappling with a situation that we have not been designed or trained to handle (yes, a disruption of this scale has not happened in living memory of most of us) as no empirical models or case-studies are available.  Coming from the limited perspective of construction […]

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Is Our Engineering Curriculum Preparing Graduates to be Employable?

A lot has been said about the quality of fresh engineers coming out of our universities in India with optimists saying about 60% of them are unemployable. Others with a more pessimistic view opine that more than 80% of fresh engineers do not make the cut when it comes to good grasp of fundamentals, basic […]

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Need for Qualitative Assessment of Contractors in the Construction Industry

Despite being one of the largest ingredients of our GDP (varying between 8 to 10% over the last decade), the construction industry seems to be the laggard when it comes to a uniform quality assessment system for contracting firms who form a major chunk of the estimated INR 2,800 Billion construction industry in India.

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