Top 10 Solar Panel Manufacturers in India, Infra Bazaar.

Top 5 Construction Equipment Manufacturing Companies in India, Infra Bazaar.

Switching Sides!

Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT) :The GIFT mega project was conceived to focus on promoting India as a financial power. It will help the country to become a regional and global hub and is planned at a cost of $20 billion. The city will cover a construction area of 8.5 million square meters. 200 skyscrapers,

World One Tower

WorldOne is a tall residential skyscraper  under construction in Mumbai. It is located in Lower Parel   on 17.5-acre site of the defunct Shrinivas Mill. It is being built at an estimated cost of over US$321 million. Construction is expected to be completed in 2018 to become the tallest building in India. it has 117 stories, and 440 meters in height. It will be the world’s tallest purely residential structure. It is ideal to meet the growing demand for luxury residences in India. It will feature swimming pools, gyms, a health club and a cricket pitch.

It will have generously sized reception rooms, luxurious bedroom suites and beautiful bathrooms.

Features: The world's highest bridge, which rises 570 meters above a valley, opened in southwest China.  It has a height equivalent to a 200-storey building, and the Beipanjiang Bridge links southwest China’s Yunnan and Guizhou provinces. It has the rare honor to be the highest in the world, by the vertical distance from the bridge deck down, to the ground or water surface beneath the bridge span.

It has a 720-metre-wide span (2,363 feet) and is a part of the Hangrui Highway.

The structure overlooks the Beipanjiang Valley. The entire 4-lane divided highway stretches to an incredible marvel covering a distance of 3,405-kilometres on the national motorway linking Hangzhou city in southern China with Ruili city on the China-Myanmar border.

There was the use of concrete filled steel troughs which were located within the back spans trusses, to keep the deck from getting pulled up, from the downward forces, of the central span truss. The tower tops are more than 735 meters above the Beipan River surface. The original paint scheme was blue for the truss deck sections but they decided to have orange later.

USES

Concrete is used to make pavements, architectural structures, foundations, motorways, roads, and bridges, overpasses, parking structures, walls and footings for gates, fences and poles. It is most used man-made material.

HOW IT WORKS

The material grows together from a moldable liquid into a hard, rigid solid. In the world today, concrete has become a fact of modern life. 6 billion tons of concrete is used around the world each year. The addition of sand, fine aggregates and coarse aggregates of up to a few centimeters makes concrete. It is a porous material, whose properties depend on its different kinds of pore space. There are air voids that are entrapped in the mixing process, the capillary pores, which are spaces occupied by water from mixing.

Concrete has compressible strength, which is related to the overall porosity of the cement paste and the amount and form of the aggregates.

Mining Equipment

Complex surface mining equipment is required as support in major mineral extraction process: they are Draglines, Shovels, Loaders, and Haul Trucks, the Mass Excavator

A Dragline Excavator

A Dragline Excavator is a large machine used to unearth dirt and other materials from construction sites and mining areas. It is a piece of heavy equipment. Draglines are of two categories being standard, lifting cranes, and the heavy units which have to be assembled on-site. It uses a large bucket between two towers with a wire rope which can be maneuvered and lowered to collect earth and other materials from the area. They have the capacity tomove 160 cubic yards of material in one scoop. The operators are experts who control dragline excavators at construction sites. They coordinate their activities with other construction workers on the site using hand and audio signals, to ensure safety and keep an efficient pace. They weigh 2000 metric tonnes and require routine cleaning and maintenance tasks. The larger types are put to effective use in strip-mining operations to move coal, and for tar-sand mining.

Underground mining equipments

There are Underground mining equipments also which can move material in such an environment. There are very specialized and have been developed specifically for the underground mining applications.

Delivering high quality aggregate to the construction industry, is a great challenge and is at the foundation of all infrastructure progress. Large volumes of aggregates add to the value and support the local economy.  They are also used to fill areas in ports and harbors or to reclaim land from the sea before the commencement of engineering works.

High-quality aggregate (granodiorite) is popular in the markets. Aggregate Industries are witnessing an increased demand from all spheres and they need to increase their annual production capacity by several million tones. Geological Surveys emphasize the importance of aggregates. In order to build houses it takes several tones. At present there is high activity in many sectors, with regards to infrastructure and housing work around the big cities.

The country is also performing at all-time-high levels, and there is a constant fuelling of demand owing to large infrastructure investments. The industry has witnessed large technological changes and has adopted new processes to meet the specifications of customers and dealers into operational level.

Steel Manufacturing industry in India is witnessing rapid growth. The usage of steel, a sought-after material for any infrastructure, is high.   The infrastructure projects are increasingly showing an encouraging growth, and the focus is on growth. Here is a huge challenge for the steel manufacturing industry to meet the demand and supply with the best technology.  An issue here is the high cost of maintenance and other operational costs.

Steel has been controlling the world as it is used in bridges, cars, energy, tools, cutlery, in cookware and in many things of daily life. The material is amenable, solid and is a unique basic material.

Introduction

The steel sector is a major contributor to India’s manufacturing output. India is the world’s third-largest steel producer in 2016. The growth is driven by domestic availability of raw materials such as iron ore and cost-effective labor. Indian steel industry is modern and has state-of-the-art steel mills. It strives for continuous modernization and up-gradation and aims for higher energy efficiency levels.

Market Size

India’s production grew by 7.4 per cent YOY to 95.6 Million Tonnes (MT) in 2016. Total consumption of finished steel grew by 3.4 per cent YOY to 76.22 MT during April 2016-February 2017.

The infrastructure projects are always huge and there is always a need to have the best measures for their effective implementation. Here a few steps are being enumerated to ensure that there is an increase in the execution capacity in them. All infrastructure projects help in global trade; they power businesses, and connect workers to their jobs in a big way. They are the platforms to create new opportunities for communities. These steps are significant and the sooner they are taken the better result they will deliver.  

The Staff has to be more productive and skilled right from the first stage of the project. There must be a plan to acquire and train skilled persons.

There needs to be a sound and efficient investment in information and communication technology, transportation, public utilities, economic diversification, tourism sector.

Today the world is full of huge projects, and the situation will be better in the future also. In the future many attractive deals are going to take shape and lend a new dimension to the infrastructure projects across the globe. The world needs new infrastructure in a big way and the demand is likely to soar up to $57 trillion worth over the next 15 years as per a study. There is no shortage of capital as Institutional investors see infrastructure as a great asset class.

How it will happen:

Giant sovereign-wealth funds are ready to put money and across all investor groups, more than $5 trillion a year is available to build airports, roads and ports. The challenge is to understand risk and policy uncertainties associated with potential deals. Investors are now considering the emerging markets; and are adopting a country-by-country approach to risk assessment. But identifying appropriate returns for each market they are viewing infrastructure projects by asset class, region, and stage of investment because of significant rewards.

Strategies:

There are many Greenfield assets and newly build infrastructure projects where investors are ready to take on the risk of development and construction. Moreover, there is a focus on Brownfield assets also.

There is a great need to create healthy environments in urban areas and have lasting infrastructure solutions in urban areas where the focus is on permeable pavements, rain gardens, green roofs and green spaces. Cities are required to implement green infrastructure strategies.

Nanotechnology is the engineering of functional systems at the molecular scale. There are current and advanced concepts that are involve in it. It is the projected ability to construct items from the beginning using techniques and tools to make complete, high performance products. It is about building machines on molecules like motors, robot arms, and computers, which are smaller than a cell. It focuses on developing the ability to build simple structures on a molecular scale. Nanotechnology has been accepted and there are great breakthroughs in it. It is being patronized by the west in a big way.  It has atomic precision and great capability.

ROBOTS

Robots are the buzz word for the future. There is great scope for them in every walk of life and they can even be regarded as a boon in medical and electronic spheres. Today the growth of electronics, the miniaturization of computing devices, and the vision of Artificial Intelligence has become a reality and the era of robotics has arrived. They answer to the need of massive requirements to automate processes across industries and boost productivity and minimize human risk. Their popularity has increased and created much interest in the subject.  

Introduction :  Infrastructure sector is vital for the Indian economy. Infrastructure sector includes Power, Bridges, Dams, Roads and Urban Infrastructure Development. India needs Rs 31 trillion to spend on infrastructure development in the next five years.

It is responsible for India’s overall development and the Government is intensely focused to ensure creation of world class infrastructure in the country. The government has set a target of Rs 25 trillion investments in infrastructure, by allocating Rs 8 trillion for developing 27 industrial clusters, and Rs 5 trillion for road, railway and port connectivity projects.

POWER:

The Indian power sector has tremendous investment potential (of US$ 250 billion), and provides immense opportunities in Power Generation, Distribution, Transmission and Equipment. The Central Electricity Authority has investment plans to reach Rs 2.6 lakh crore from 2017-22, and to enhance the transmission capacity by 45,700 Megawatt

Road and power sectors are expected to attract a lion’s share of the proposed investments, and several other new opportunities will also appear in the future. There are PMs pet schemes like Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, Smart Cities and creation of Logistics Network. A massive Urban Infrastructure Development is round the corner giving a boost to rapid growth of urbanization, urban transport and water supply projects.

With such projects in mind and in order to turn the infrastructure dream into a reality, there are great challenges which need to be tackled efficiently.

INTRODUCTION

The skyline of Indian cities is changing dramatically and there have been many developments in the past decade. Today the telecom towers are 30-70 meter-high structures that crown the tops of the tallest buildings and are a common sight. There are more than 1 billion mobile phone users in a country of 1.2 billion.

The growth of this sector is spectacular and explosive. India’s telecom sector is now the second largest in the world, and the fastest growing.

Thrust by Government

The government has set up more than 2 lakh mobile towers in nine months, Communications Minister Manoj Sinha said. He also reiterated about the government's recent initiative to check the mobile tower radiation to allay fears about its adverse effect on health.

Graders are used to create flat surfaces

In the Paving stage today machines can produce large quantities of paved surfaces in record time. A drilling machine, a chip spreader, which lays down the aggregate on top of a bituminous binder, a compactor, and a cold planer are used. The surface thus made is ready for traffic.

Vibratory roller compactor is used to compact soil, gravel, concrete, or asphalt. It ensures a smooth, even surface and achieves the required density.

Padded Drum Compactor is applied to compact soil, gravel, concrete, or asphalt.

The Concrete Plants come in two types being ready mix plants and central mix plants. A concrete plant has parts and accessories.

A Curb Machine takes concrete and creates curb and gutter continuously.