Mumbai, 28th April 2017: UltraTech Cement, an Aditya Birla Group company awarded stalwarts of the construction industry at the ‘India Next’ awards evening.
India Next is India’s first competition that recognizes ideas by professionals and students from the construction fraternity for smart ideas and solutions that bridge the country’s urban and rural problems by focusing on an improved ‘collective’ future.
India Next is a platform under UltraTech’s Build Beautiful philosophy that engages future builders of India to make more intelligent use of technology with available people and resources for improved management of the urban and rural landscapes.
A step towards new India, India Next felicitated engineers and architects for their inspiring ideas and solutions towards building a better future. After 6 months of rigorous screening through 400 detailed concept entries by 16 eminent jury members, India Next awarded 17 participants with trophies and citations for coming up with the best ideas that if implemented, can bring a transformation towards societies at large.
This story is from the June 2017 edition of Indian Architect & Builder.
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