This calendar year began on not such a promising note for the real estate sector and in general for the construction industry. Disclosures around banking sector NPAs led to tighter scrutiny of lending, leading to a slowdown. This put extreme pressure on NB …

Gone are the days when developers and contractors used to take concrete defects as something that needs to just be patched up or repaired. RERA has legislated that the defect liability period for any construction project will now be for a duration of 5 yea …

The literature of Quality Management is full of principle of ‘Cost of Quality’. However, few organizations have been able to put in place a cost-effective mechanism to measure and control the cost of quality (both cost of poor quality and cost of good qual …

Quantity surveying and estimation cost of construction need to be at the fingertip of every surveyor. This is necessary as estimated cost of building construction assists them to examine and manipulate data used for projections and comparison. Its main rol …

Author: Mohana Raje - Director Construction disputes make up a significant component of the claims and disputes dealt with in Arbitrations in India. The Government is investing into new facilities for improving the infrastructure of the country. At the s …

In 1939 Shewhart changed the then existing linear thinking to a cycle to show how refinement and change leads to an iterative approach to product development. Edward Deming, the Quality Guru further developed this concept and presented what was known as De …

Ranjit Patil, HOD - Design Engineering and BBS Traditionally, RCC construction projects manage reinforcement (rebar) work at the site by setting up a yard for storage, cut & bend in this yard and locally shift reinforcement for installation. Recently, …

Pranita Kale, HOD - QS & Cost Consultancy Quite often, in the course of finalization of an assignment, clients ask us, “What is the accuracy with which you will provide quantities. Though not articulated expressly, we understand that the client expect …

I recently had an interesting conversation with the project manager of a company that we had approached for conducting a quality audit. It seems one of his peers from another organization had recommended him to get in touch with us for this purpose. Howeve …

Outsourcing is the practice of hiring a party outside a company to create products and perform services that traditionally were performed in-house by the company’s own employees and staff. The decision to give certain functions to an outside service provid …