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Cover Story We see a great future for precast technology in the Indian market Magicrete Building Solutions is one of India’s leading manufacturers of AAC bricks, lightweight concrete blocks and other green building materials. The company offers high quality and precisely designed bricks manufactured with autoclaved aerated concrete, a path breaking technology in the construction industry along with durable and eco-friendly construction materials. SIDDHARTH SHARMA, PRESIDENT – PRECAST DIVISION, MAGICRETE BUILDING SOLUTIONS responded to CONSTRUCTION OPPORTUNITIES queries Give us a brief background of your frm • High quality control Further for large projects we are willing to and the products and solutions you ofer • Minimal dependency on unskilled put site based plants to reduce logistics costs for the construction of tall building labor involved in precast. structures? • More durable than conventional Magicrete Building Solutions was construction. How do you expect the market to shape founded with the vision of introducing up in the coming years? What are the innovative building materials to the Indian What are the energy efficient features company’s future plans to expand and construction industry. We started with AAC ofered by your products and solutions in strengthen your business in India? blocks in 2008 and enjoy market leadership maintaining environmental and energy We see a great future for precast technology in the same. In December 2014 we started efciency in structures? in the Indian market where lots of turnkey precast solutions to provide a • Precast insulated walls can be used to inefciencies exist in current construction better alternative to the conventional reduce heat load on building to a great methods. Precast is the only solution to construction system. Precast technology extent eliminate them. We are planning to put can be used to build any type of high rise • Apart from that precast help in precast plants across India to increase our building be it residential, commercial, hotels reducing air and sound pollution at presence. u or institutional with excellent quality and construction sites since the structure speed. It relives the builder and the user is manufactured in the factory from the various inefciencies involved in • Reduced material wastage also adds conventional construction such as material few points in making precast a green wastages, project delays, cost escalations due technology. to delay, poor quality etc. Please provide relevant details about your What are the key selling points of your manufacturing units such as development products which help you to win orders of new products and raising of production from construction project contractors and capacities? builder-developers? We have put up tilt up panel production Te key selling points of turnkey precast plant adjacent to our existing AAC facility solution can be summarised as follows: in Surat. We can produce load bearing wall • Easy and quick installation panels, solid slabs, lattice girder slabs, pre- • Minimal disruption on site stressed slabs, precast columns and beams. SEPTEMBER 2015|construction opportunities 23