10 winning ideas themed on ‘Building for a Billion’ finalized out of 4,250 registrations.
UltraTech Cement Ltd, an Aditya Birla Group Company, today announced the winners of IndiaNext 2017-18 - Building for a Billion. This is an annual initiative that brings alive the company’s endeavor to present the best concepts and designs to fulfill every Indian’s dream of owning a worthy home.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr K K Maheshwari, Managing Director – UltraTech Cement Ltd says “At UltraTech Cement, our endeavor is to build solutions for the ever-evolving infrastructure challenges that our country faces. We believe that every Indian should have a home of their dream. ‘Building for A Billion’ – an engineering and design competition launched under the aegis of UltraTech’s IndiaNext initiative is a testimony to this belief. In keeping with this vision, we developed the idea of IndiaNext to bring together the best and brightest minds of the world to collaborate and devise solutions. Going by the number and quality of entries, the competition seems to have energized the engineers and architects worldwide. This year’s theme is driven by our insight that housing is and shall remain one of the biggest challenges that modern society faces – rural or urban. We look forward to the winning ideas as an opportunity to fulfill every Indian’s dream of owning a home. And since the competition is judged by an eminent jury from within the architectural and engineering fraternity, we can be rest assured that the winning ideas are indeed path breaking.”
This story is from the June 2018 edition of Indian Architect & Builder.
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