Indian firms Tech Mahindra and SoftTech have joined forces to transform digitally the global construction and infrastructure industry.

Tech Mahindra is a provider of digital transformation, consulting and business re-engineering services. It has announced a partnership with SoftTech, a provider of digital technology for the construction and civil infrastructure industry.

The partnership will combine the technological capabilities of Tech Mahindra and the domain expertise of SoftTech to provide customised end-to-end digital transformation of business in the construction and infrastructure industry.

The partnership should enable users across the government and corporate sectors to streamline business operations, boost efficiency, and improve customer experience by leveraging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), building information modelling (BIM), digital twins, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR), construction wearables, robotics, metaverse and the IoT.

“The construction industry contributes 13% to the global GDP, and is required to continuously re-invent and innovate to become more efficient and address cost burdens,” said Jagdish Mitra, chief strategy officer at Tech Mahindra. “The industry has taken valuable strides in digitisation, and the many examples of successes have increased the demand for next-gen technologies. Tech Mahindra and SoftTech aim to build more sustainable and responsible solutions for social and environmental impacts within the architecture-engineering-construction space. An innovative online inspection-approval system, ERP for the real estate and construction industries, an online building information model, and so on are among the strengths of our partnership.”

The partnership should strengthen Tech Mahindra’s position in the construction industry and empower organisations with seamless implementation and integration of digital technology across departments, functions and the workforce at the desk and in the field.

Tech Mahindra and SoftTech will also work towards cross-skilling their resources through training programmes for knowledge sharing on various tool implementations, scaling applications and so on, thereby creating a skilled talent pool for innovative and scalable offerings.

“We believe that the construction industry is at the cusp of undergoing a complete digital transformation, and our partnership with Tech Mahindra creates a great platform to cater to the needs of the industry,” said Vijay Gupta, managing director of SoftTech. “With Tech Mahindra’s industry-leading expertise in the manufacturing segment, the company has succeeded to scale the business upwards to cross a billion-dollar run-rate. We are confident that this, combined with their deep-tech capabilities in 5G and metaverse, will provide our products scalability in terms of customer base and technical know-how, which will help deliver more value to international construction and infrastructure clients.”

Tech Mahindra believes in a digit-all philosophy for business transformation. This partnership is in line with its focus on digital growth, under the NXT.Now framework, which aims to enhance the human-centric experience.

Founded in 1996, SoftTech, a publicly listed entity in NSE and BSE, is powered by more than 500 professionals including technologists, AEC specialists and subject matter experts. With a presence across India, USA, UK, Singapore and MENA, SoftTech has seen more than a million building permits approved through its technology.

Tech Mahindra is a $6bn organisation employing more than 158,000 people across 90 countries helping 1262 global customers, including Fortune 500 companies. It is part of the Mahindra Group, founded in 1945.