Festival Agenda
Welcome to the dedicated to building remarkable Schedule!
Day 1 - 15th October 2019
Day 2 - 16th October 2019
The session will focus on
- Design and engineering
- Project Management
- Helping State Road Development Agencies
Despite the projects getting awarded to builders, construction faces delay due to lack of funds. Banks have started taking a backseat for long term financing with rising NPAs. The session will focus on:
- consolidation & divestment of road assets
- The new NHAI structure and how it will change road development
- BOT, EPC, HAM & alternate financing options
Land acquisition and site availability
- Road building methods and quality control
- Disputes & Arbitration Shortage of manpower, machinery and material. Almost 40% shortage of skilled labour, fluctuating steel and cement prices and decrease in efficiency, all add up to the delay in completion of projects.
- Stalled Projects - Solutions
- Success Case study
Session IV: Rural Roads Ramp-up.
The Union Budget has allocated Rs 800 billion for 125,000 km of rural roads under the PMGSY. How profitable are these contracts? how speedily can they be executed? Special efforts & challenges faced by contractors?. The session will focus on:
- On land acquisition and site facilitation
- Operator training, equipment and material availability & deployment
- Road Development in North East
- Enabling an estimation of the carbon footprint of road construction activities
- Reducing the carbon footprint goal of the government
| 05:00 PM - 5:10 PM | Welcome Address by Pratap Padode, President, FIRST Construction Council & Editor- In- Chief, Construction World |
| 05:10 PM – 05:20 PM | Jury Felicitation |
| 05:20 PM - 05:30 PM | Guest of Honour Address by Shri Nitin Gadkari, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways GoI* |
| 05:30 PM - 05:45 PM | Top Challengers Awards |
| 05:45 PM - 06:15 PM | Indian Largest Construction Company Award |
| 06:15 PM - 07:00 PM | ENR Top 100 International Design Firms and Top International Contractors Recognition Ceremony |
| 07:00 PM - 07:10 PM | Man of the Year 2018/19 |
| 07:10 PM - 07:20 PM | Chief Guest Address: Shri Suresh Prabhu, Minister of Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation, Government of India |
| 07:20 PM - 07:30 PM | Vote of Thanks |
The session will focus on :
- Can Modular Buildings achieve express delivery and
affordable cost?
- Marriott will build a 26-storey hotel in 90 days (Intel projects - India & China)
- Thornton lift slab technology
- Hotel prefab bathroom pods and mechanical electrical plumbing racks in Iowa
- PropTech & ConTech
The session will focus on :
- REIT - Real Estate Investment Trusts - Rollout
- How will the REIT Market develop and how can it acquire depth?
- Tax Hurdles
- GST
- Stamp Duty
- Property
- Policy - Easeful & Purposeful
The session will focus on :
- Skill Development - India needs 40 million skilled workers
- Best practices in training
- India’s Global Scale Projects = $1 tn opportunities vs
apprehensions
- States on a gallop
- Tech vs legacy
Pressure is mounting on India to reduce its carbon footprint as its experiences some of the worst impacts of climate change. The session will focus on:
- Skill Development - India needs 40 million skilled workers
- How buildings and infrastructure can contribute to mitigating climate change
- How structures can be built to withstand the effects of droughts, floods, heat and storms
- The technology that is advancing the green building movement
- How green and sustainable buildings and infrastructure can pay for themselves over their lifecycle.
17:50 Pm - 18.15 Pm
- Equipment India Best Sellers Awards
18.15 Pm - 18.30 Pm
- Equipment India Special Recognition Award
- Equipment India Person of the Year Award