Impact of Mivan Formwork over Conventional Formwork

This paper describes in brief the the need of mivan formwork in the Indian construction industry. Construction is one of the significant sectors of Indian economy and is an integral part of the development. With the globalization of Indian economy and introduction of multinationals in India for the construction and nations pride program of golden quadrilateral, it has become foremost to have speedy construction and timely completion of projects. Now days, low waste modern formwork systems for superstructure construction are commonly adopted. Formwork system affects on the cost, time, and quality of project delivery. But still these formwork systems are not much used in India and most of the contractors do not like to shift to the latest technology as they have the doubt of facing losses in the project and they are very much familiar with the existing formwork type, the conventional type. At the same time they believe that these formwork systems are bit expensive. This study is based on the survey conducted on a construction site namely Jaypee Krescent Homes at sec 134 Noida UP. This paper describes the comparative analysis of conventional formwork and tailor made (MIVAN) formwork on the basis of cost, quality time and strength parameters.