Global Housing Technology Challenge to Build Over 6000 Houses In 6 Cities
In a move that will provide the country a basket of new technologies to build cost effective houses in a compressed time-frame, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the Global Housing Technology Challenge (GHTC)-India on January 1, 2021 through video conferencing. Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) initiated the Global Housing Technology Challenge- India (GHTCIndia) with the objective to identify and mainstream a basket of innovative construction technologies from across the globe for housing construction sector that are sustainable, eco-friendly and disaster-resilient. As a part of GHTC- India, six Light House Projects (LHP) consisting of about 1,000 houses each with physical & social infrastructure facilities is being constructed at six cities across the country namely Indore, Rajkot, Chennai, Ranchi, Agartala and Lucknow. Light House Projects will showcase the use of the following six distinct shortlisted innovative technologies offered by six companies which have been chosen on a competitive basis. Six Technology providers have been selected through rigorous online bidding process for construction of Light House Projects (LHPs). The project to be completed fastest would be considered the winner and is expected to get a prize money of Rs 1 crore. Technologies selected include, Prefabricated Sandwich Panel System (Indore), Precast Concrete Construction System – Precast Components Assembled at Site (Chennai), Monolithic Concrete system using Tunnelform (Rajkot), Precast Concrete Construction System – 3D Volumetric (Ranchi), Light Gauge Steel Structural System & Pre-engineered Steel Structural System (Agartala), PVC Stay In Place Formwork System (Lucknow)
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