India: Saint-Gobain India has awarded US$401,000 for two new research laboratories at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in Tamil Nadu. The laboratories will be the Admixture Research for Engineering Next-gen Construction (CAREN) laboratory and the Digital Real-Time Sensing Technologies for Infrastructure (DRSTI) laboratory, and will operate as part of the institute’s Centre of Excellence on Technologies for Low-carbon and Lean Construction. United News of India has reported that the funding will flow over a period of three years.
