international
construction
april 2015
REGIONALREPORT
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High-speed future?
alignments need to be as straight and as level as possible, which
inevitablymeans tunnels, bridges, cuts andfills.
The issue of alignments could be particularly challenging
in India, as land rights and compulsory purchases have been a
historic problem. It is not just the legal complexity of these issues
that is a stumblingblock, there canalsobe tensionsbetween state-
andnational-level governments in this area.
And afinal point to consider is that theDiamondQuadrilateral
may only be the start. India’s national highways programme
startedwith the 5,800 kmGoldenQuadrilateral.However, there
were 13 subsequent phases, including the cross-shaped North-
South,East-West links,which took the total lengthof thenational
highways tomore than50,000km.
A high-speed rail network that extensive is unlikely. China, the
world’s most ambitious builder of high-speed rail, has a network
of completed and under construction lines of about 35,000 km,
which ismore than the rest of theworld combined.
But however ambitious India’s plans for high-speed rail become,
it looks like a promising growth sector for the construction
industry.
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Agroh Infrastructure Developers is a contractor active in the
Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) road building sector inMadhya
Pradesh. Managing director Shailendra Singhal said he
favours Volvo equipment for thework due to the fuel savings
and high productivity it delivers.
The Sky Towers is a four-skyscraper residential development
in downtownMumbai. It is being built usingMeva’sMevaDec
slab formwork for the floors, whichwas chosen because of
its flexibility, the ability to strip it early and the fact that it
can be set and stripped by hand, among other factors.
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