Apart from the public health emergency of the Coronavirus spread, China also made headlines last week for building a makeshift hospital in a record 10-days to accommodate 1,000 patients infected with the virus. Hundreds of miles away, in a small town of Tamil Nadu, a US-based start-up called Katerra is also executing building projects with great speed.
It is building houses, offices and malls almost three times faster than the time usually taken. Using state-of-the-art technology, the company is making building blocks which can be fitted into each other like Lego pieces, facilitating ...
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First Published: Wed, February 19 2020. 23:29 IST
