GeoSmart Infrastructure 2022 Awards Announced

NRDI, NHAI, BRO and other bagged GeoSmart Infrastructure Excellence Awards for road, railway, bridge, and tunnel construction

#Delhi 2022 Sep V: GeoSmart Infrastructure 2022 brings together industry leaders from across the country to share digital use-cases for designing, building, and maintaining world class transport infrastructure assets, and plan for the future demands of the nation.

Nitin Gadkari, Minister for Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) inaugurated the conference and released the National BIM and Digital Twin Strategy report.

“We need to accept good technology, research, innovation and successful practices from across the world and from within India. We should use alternative materials to reduce cost without compromising on quality. Time is the most important aspect in construction, it is the biggest asset,” said Gadkari.

The GeoSmart Infrastructure 2022 presents the GeoSmart Infrastructure Awards, which aims to celebrate technology’s best-in-class application and leadership in transport infrastructure development and asset management. The awards felicitates the forward-looking organizations, projects, and individuals for their impeccable work in the field of digital construction and engineering.

General (Dr.) Vijay Kumar Singh PVSM, AVSM, VSM (Retd.), Minister of State, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways released the “BIM’s Strategic Return on Investment (ROI) in Indian Infrastructure Projects” presented the awards to the winners at Geosmart Infrastructure Awards.

“As technology gets used more, challenges like time overrun and cost overrun can be addressed. We need to develop technology such that users find it useful and easy, thus we can get benefit in terms of quality, methodology, time and cost effective. Infrastructure industry and construction tech are changing by leaps and bounds. As land area is shrinking, we need technology and innovation to help us meet the requirements of infrastructure development as well as future of people,” said General Singh.