Incubation centres being planned
Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Puri has called for Paradigm Shift in Technology Transition for Innovative Construction Technologies as he launched Global Housing Technology Challenge-India on 14 Jan 2019 in Delhi.
He stressed on the need to look for new Emerging, Disaster-Resilient, Environment Friendly, Cost Effective and Speedy Construction Technologies
Puri called for a shift in Technology Transition to address challenges of Large-scale Housing Construction in minimum time and cost with optimum use of resources and Environment Friendly practices
The challenge to include identification of proven demonstrable and promoting potential technologies through setting up incubation Centers and organizing accelerator workshops.
Launching “Global Housing Technology Challenge-India” (GHTC-India), Puri envisioned to source technologies from all over the world and identify such technologies which would be suitable for adoption in India.
GHTC-India intends to get best globally available innovative construction technologies through a challenge process.
It seeks to demonstrate and deliver ready to live-in houses in a shorter time, with lower cost and quality construction in a sustainable manner. It also seeks to promote future technologies, to foster an environment of research and development in the country.
Pointing out that the conventional system of housing construction is time consuming as well as resource intensive, Puri emphasised that there is a need to look for new emerging, disaster-resilient, environment friendly, cost effective and speedy construction technologies.
“The shift in technology transition will also address the challenges of large-scale housing construction in minimum time and cost with optimum use of resources and environment friendly practices”, he added.
GHTC-India has been conceptualized to enable the paradigm shift required in the construction sector in the country. GHTC-India will bring change, both in the perception as well as the manner in which construction of houses is done.
The challenge has three components viz. i) Conduct of Grand Expo-cum-Conference, ii) Identifying Proven Demonstrable Technologies from across the world and iii) Promoting Potential Technologies through setting up incubation centers at selected IITs and organizing accelerator workshops under the Affordable Sustainable Housing Accelerators- India (ASHA-India) Program.
All stakeholders involved in building construction industry, technology providers, construction agencies, developers and technical institutes would participate in the Challenge.
Of the validated demand of about one crore housing units to be constructed by the year 2022, the Ministry has so far sanctioned around 70 lakh houses, out of which around 37 lakh have been grounded and around 15 lakh completed and allotted to beneficiaries.
To ensure a robust process, the Ministry has conducted a series of consultations with State/UT governments, IITs, technology providers and other relevant stakeholders to identify broad reasons for slow and limited adoption of innovative and alternative construction technologies for affordable housing. fiinews.com
