The esteemed jury panel for CONSTRUCTION WORLD Global Awards 2024 (L-R) Bharat Parekh, Executive Director, CLSA;
Sandeep Upadhyay, Managing Director, Infrastructure Advisory, Centrum Capital; Jagannarayan Padmanabhan, Senior Director and Global Head - Consulting, CRISIL; Ratnesh Sinha, Senior Dep...
The esteemed jury panel for CONSTRUCTION WORLD Global Awards 2024 (L-R) Bharat Parekh, Executive Director, CLSA;
Sandeep Upadhyay, Managing Director, Infrastructure Advisory, Centrum Capital; Jagannarayan Padmanabhan, Senior Director and Global Head - Consulting, CRISIL; Ratnesh Sinha, Senior Deputy General Manager, BKT Tires; Deepak Garg, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Sany Heavy Industry India; Vijay Agarwal, Executive Director, Equirus Capital; Pratap Padode, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, ASAPP Info Global; Dr Venkata Santosh Kumar, Associate Professor, IIT Bombay; DP Singh, COO, Infrastructure Solutions Business, Voltas; Anup Mathew, Senior Vice President and Business Head, Godrej Construction; BR Parthasarthy, Senior Vice President and Head Infrastructure, Tata Consulting Engineers; Suneet Maheshwari, Founder and Managing Partner,
Udvik Infrastructure and Professor Ashwin Mahalingam, IIT Madras.
For the 22nd year in a row, the CONSTRUCTION WORLD Global Awards, set in motion through its Jury Meet, the process to select and award India’s Fastest Growing Construction Companies, CW Person of the Year � in both, the Public and the Private domain, and two Lifetime Achievement awards to trailblazers in the industry.
The jury first deliberated upon the Nominations put forth, for the CONSTRUCTION WORLD Person of the Year 2024, in the public and private sectors. Researched and presented by the CW editorial team, the nominations included construction heroes who have enjoyed remarkable achievements this year and, through their efforts, propelled the organisation and industry forward.
To arrive at the Fastest Growing Companies, a report with a quantitative analysis of construction companies � data sourced from published annual reports and results published by companies � was presented to the panel to allow them to assess the Fastest Growing companies in
the Large, Medium and Small categories. (See Methodology on next page).
This data was collated
and compiled by FIRST Construction Council, a
non-profit trust set up in 2003 to empower and enable the construction community through information and policy advocacy. The council also engages in researching information and ranking construction and infrastructure companies.
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