Ahmed Atef Faggal - Associated Professor of Environmental Control, Architectural Department, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Egypt. An arising issue that concerns all fields of research is climate change and its impact on the environment. A major reason for this phenomenon is human ... Read more...
THE THREE BIG DRIVERS — BACKLOG, REAL ESTATE & INFRASTRUCTURE DEMAND AND DISRUPTED PRODUCTION AMIDST WORKFORCE SHORTAGE ARE CONSISTENTLY RAISING THE COST OF CONSTRUCTION RAW MATERIALS A.K.A. STEEL AND CEMENT. THE SOLUTION STILL EVADES. Real estate governing bodies CREDAI and NAREDCO have ur... Read more...
Cement production demand and growth was primarily driven by the housing sector during the first two months of the financial year 2021-22. During the months of April and May, the cement production was recorded at 54 million tonnes, which is almost a 100 per cent increase in the production of cement ... Read more...
With the gradual easing of lockdowns and pre-monsoon pent-up demand, June is likely to have registered sequential growth of about 20 percent in cement volumes, said India Ratings in its report. The month of April is likely to have seen a sequential moderation of around 10 per cent in volumes, owing ... Read more...
The government has set up a 25-member development council for cement industry, including Dalmia Bharat Group CMD Puneet Dalmia and UltraTech Cement MD K C Jhanwar, which will suggest ways to eliminate waste, obtain maximum production, improve quality, reduce costs and promote standardization of prod... Read more...
India's cement production was down by 11 per cent MoM in April and 18 per cent MoM in May, due to the rise of COVID-19 cases and the subsequent lockdown restrictions by many states. However, notwithstanding the onset of the monsoon season, pent-up demand is expected to push volumes forward in the se... Read more...
Recording another year of unprecedented growth, JK Cement Ltd., One of the India’s premier cement company, tripled its market capitalization to USD 3 billion in the last fiscal year, reaffirming its position as one of the fastest growing companies in the cement industry. Unfazed by the pandemic an... Read more...
The coronavirus pandemic that hit the real estate sector hard has been harder on the affordable housing segment, with its share of supply dropping to 20 percent in the top seven cities in the second quarter of 2021, realty consultancy firm Anarock has said. Of 36,260 units launched in these citie... Read more...
Visaka Industries Ltd will commission a ₹80-crore plant for Vnext range of cement board products near Coimbatore and a ₹50 crore manufacturing facility for roofing products in Rai Bareli by the year end. “While the Coimbatore unit will be our fourth unit for Vnext products, the Rai Bareli f... Read more...
Crucial inputs such as steel, cement, sand, stone aggregates, plywood materials and M Sand have seen a price increase in the last one year, pushing up the overall construction cost. The construction of individual homes has become expensive with cost per square for a moderate structure going up from ... Read more...