Customer centric developers with focus on deliveries & financial discipline would continue to do well especially in Gurgaon, which by far is the most happening Real Estate micro market in India.

One of the largest employment providers in India after agriculture is the Construction and Real estate sector. The sector is in doldrums for quite some time and experiencing uneven growth since 2005. During 2007 and early 2008, the sector achieved newer heights owing to robust economy and increase in foreign investment.

The unorganized segment in decorative paints is close to 20% of the total, mostly restricted to operations at the regional level. With the Government undertaking key initiatives such as Make in India, 100 Smart Cities and Skilling India, the paint industry is poised for a rampant growth in the upcoming year.

Munish Doshi, MD, ACME Housing shares his view with Sandeep Sharma about his company’s footprint and emerging trends in the real estate sector, emerging trends in the Indian real estate sector, business scenario in the first half of the current year, realty scenario in MMR, ongoing and upcoming projects, sustainable construction, Single Window clearance system, impact of Real Estate Regulatory Act, 2016 (RERA), affordable housing and need to streamline Construction/Project Finance in India.

With the rapid industrialisation and urbanisation the demand for HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) systems is on the rise in India. The increase in the purchasing power of the middle class in India is also driving the demand for ACs in households.

The pace of infrastructure development in the country is going to accelerate in years to come. Stemming from the Pre-engineered buildings industry, what is taking shape is the application of pre-engineered construction to new Heavy Engineering and larger Infrastructure projects which is the next in line for development in the country.

India’s infrastructure needs are huge and offers decades of opportunities for the building and construction sector. The growth of the Construction Equipment (CE) sector is directly proportional to the economic growth and development of infrastructure in particular.

Kalidas Bhangare, Managing Director, Testo India Pvt Ltd shares his views with Sandeep Sharma about core competencies of Testo India, range of testing and measuring instruments, emerging trends and technologies, manufacturing base, application of Flue Gas Analyser, power industry response to thermal imager, size and market share and energy efficiency measures.

´Industrialization´ and ´Urbanization´ has created havoc on the rural, industrial and urban ecology that has adversely affected ecosystem services to humans. The worst affected people in such case have always been economically and socially backward people and communities.