CONSTRUCTION SECTOR OVERVIEW
Statistics, news & updates: everything you need to know about the Construction Industry in India
Summary/Snapshot
Construction Industry
- The construction industry consists of real estate and infrastructure construction and contributes around 9% to India’s GDP.
- It is the second-largest employer after agriculture, employing more than 51 million people.
- There are huge opportunities in railways, energy, urban infrastructure, roadways and highways under the umbrella of the National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) with a budget allocation of $1.4 trillion on infrastructure under the next five years.
- Indian Railways has the highest-ever planned CAPEX of $29.52 billion.
- India has an investment budget of $1.4 Tn on infrastructure – 24% on renewable energy, 18% on roads & highways, 17% on urban infrastructure, and 12% on railways.
- $2.5 bn is being provided for PMAY- Urban [Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojna (“Affordable Housing for All”)]. This will help lay the foundations for 1.56 million new houses and complete 1.8 million existing houses, creating additional 7.8 million jobs.
Growth Drivers
- 100 Smart Cities Project planned.
54 global innovative construction technologies identified under a Technology Sub-Mission of PMAY-U to start a new era in Indian construction technology sector.
Real estate demand is set to increase by 15-18 Mn sq. ft. by 2025 across major cities.
- 11 Industrial corridors planned.
- Population growth, urbanization, industrialization and rise in disposable income
Sub industries
- Building Equipment
- Glass & glazing products
- Highways, Street & Bridge Construction
- Mechanical, Electrical & Plumbing equipment
- Residential remodelers
- Structural steel & pre-cast steel contractors
- Roofing & Flooring products
- Engineered wood & equipment
Opportunities
- Highways: 24% of the national highway network in India is four-lane, with immense scope for improvement.
- Airports: Upgrading and constructing new airports under Regional Connectivity Scheme.
- In 2021 and 2022, institutional real estate investment in warehouses accounted for 27%. The Indian warehousing stock is expected to reach nearly 500 mn. sqft by 2025 in the top 8 Tier – 1 cities, with significant Grade A stock.
- Seaports: $82 billion planned investment in 574 projects by 2035.
Challenges
- High quality, high specification products cannot compete in a price-sensitive market like India.
- Foreign companies rarely want to localize their offerings.
- India has low-cost manpower, thus contractors and builders hesitate in investing in automated equipment.
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Key Investment Opportunities
- Construction development in residential, retail, commercial and hospitality sectors, development of townships.
- Construction of roads, bridges, hotels, resorts.
- Technologies and solutions for smart, sustainable and connected cities and integrated townships.
- Technologies for the promotion of low cost and affordable housing.
- Green building solutions.
- Sustainable and environmentally friendly building materials.
- Training and skill development of construction sector workers.
- Urban water supply, urban sewage and treatment plants.
Recent Development
- Need for Affordable Housing: By 2030, more than 40% of the Indian population is expected to live in urban India (34% today) which is likely to create a demand for 25 million additional affordable units.
- Adoption of Green Building Solutions: Growth of cities would boost energy demand for powering buildings, making measures such as the revised Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC), extremely important. Use of green building materials, and energy efficient HVAC and lighting systems are at the forefront of the new paradigm.
- Technology/AI Shaping the Industry: Cost efficiencies, faster construction and higher quality are driving implementation of techniques such as aluminium formwork, prefabricated buildings, building information modelling (BIM), etc.
Key Players in India
National
- L&T Engineering Construction & Contracts Division (ECC)
- Larsen & Toubro Infrastructure Development Projects Limited (L&T IDPL)
- Reliance Infrastructure Limited
- Tata Projects Limited
- Macrotech Developers Pvt Ltd (Lodha Group)
- Punj Lloyd Ltd
- Sadbhav Engineering Ltd
- Shapoorji Pallonji & CO. Ltd.
- Dilip Buildcon Ltd
- Nagarjuna Construction Company Limited
- Hindustan Construction Company
- Simplex Infrastructures Ltd
International
- ACS
- Hochtief Aktiengesellschaft
- EMAAR
- Strabag
- Bouygues
- China Communications Construction Group Ltd.
- Power Construction Corp. of China
- Skanska AB
- Ferrovial
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