Bengaluru, Nov. 3 -- With pollution restrictions increasingly disrupting conventional construction activities in major cities and infrastructure projects facing pressure to meet tighter deadlines, India could be approaching a major shift towards factory-built construction, where building components are manufactured off-site and assembled at project locations.
The transition to industrialised construction could reduce overall project completion time by 20 to 50 per cent and cut onsite workforce requirements by up to 50-60 per cent in selected structural and assembly activities, according to Teppo Voutilainen, CEO of Finland-based construction technology major Elematic Oyj.
Voutilainen said the changing regulatory environment, particularly ...