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“This helps companies streamline their processes, control costs and reduce delays. The bottom line is that in the infrastructure domain, the spend on implementing IT tools provides immediate ROI. For example, even a mere 1% cost reduction in a small hundred crore road project cost is sufficient to recover the investment made in technology,” Sreenivasan adds.
Aurigo BRIX is the company’s 5th generation product which is being used by government agencies, infrastructure owners, construction management firms, repeat builders and real estate developers.
The company says it provides a world class web 2.0 technology framework built on Microsoft technologies to completely automate the entire lifecycle of a capital project; starting from land management, estimation, planning, project monitoring, site inspection to asset maintenance and even asset disposal.
RDS Project, an engineering and general contracting firm, who is upgrading its IT system to keep pace with the industry, says it is investing in an ERP system from Aurigo to tightly monitor and control their projects so that they can increase their operational efficiency. The company is presently implementing it at a pilot project. “We were looking for a system which was customised and pertinent to the construction industry, had an easy user-interface and was within our budget. After looking at various products like SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and others we felt that Aurigo’s BRIX product was more pertinent to the construction industry and the Microsoft AX provided with the required customisation which could adapt to our company specific business flows,” says Mayank Goyal, Director, RDS Project.
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He says they were more comfortable with the Aurigo’s implementation team, which had provided them with the required hand-holding during the customization and implementation process.
Another IT solution provider, Autodesk has software for new construction and existing building projects that support the Building Information Modelling process. The company says its Autodesk 2011 software helps architects, designers and engineers more easily create and profit from digital design data and better communication across extended project teams.
“The combination of globalisation, continuous process innovation and client’s increasing expectation of intelligent buildings has forced design firms around the world to re-evaluate their practices. Building Information Modelling (BIM) is perceived as an important tool of change in the architecture, engineering and construction industry and the trend is towards continued worldwide adoption of this revolutionary approach,” says Manideep Saha, Country Sales Manager - AEC, India & SAARC, Autodesk.
He says that BIM’s overriding benefit is the substantial time saving and competitive advantage it can provide. “In an environment of intense time pressure and increased global competition, BIM gives local firms the quick turnaround on projects. Another important benefit is BIM’s ability to reduce the size of the project team. The key issues challenging BIM adoption in India revolve around costs, software, additional hardware and training,” he adds.
Goyal of RDS Project says the construction industry is slowly evolving in India. “With the increase in complexities and scale of projects, and many stakeholders in a project, companies are slowly shifting towards reliance of IT for better project coordination, designs and project implementation. The global competition is here to stay, says Sreenivasan, adding that the construction firms have to either pull up their socks or leave the party. Pendse concludes saying, “We all are fortunate to be in the era wherein the infrastructure industry is growing rapidly and will continue to do so for at least a decade more. We should be prepared to take advantage of this growth.”
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