10-Storey Building in 48 hours

It was a promise delivered floor by floor. In just 48 hours, an entrepreneur has constructed a 10-floor building in Mohali, a suburban town in Punjab,India

The red and grey facade building, Instacon, stood tall on an industrial plot in Mohali, 10 kilometres from Chandigarh today on Dec 1,2012, two days after Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal had laid its foundation stone.

Work on the building's construction started around 4:30 pm on Thursday. By Friday evening, the building saw seven floors in place.

As the deadline of 48 hours approached, all the 10 floors of the building were in place even though the glass-panes on the windows and other fittings inside were still being put by the workers and engineers.

The building used pre-fabricated material, including 200 tonnes of steel.Over 200 skilled workers, technicians, engineers and equipment were engaged in the building construction.


"Our effort was to put the 10-storeyed structure in place within 48 hours. We wanted to prove that this could be done. That feat was achieved well within 48 hours. Just some finishing touches remain. This is only a sample structure," an official of Synergy Thrislington infrastructure company told