Ashiana Housing

Ashiana Housing is located here in Bhopal and we have been focusing on the local building scene for quite a while now. My days are usually spent between the construction sites and the office where we keep all the maps and blueprints. It is a lot of dusty boots and phone calls to contractors to see if the bricks arrived on time or if the rain messed up the new foundations. Bhopal has its own way of doing things and we try to work with that rhythm as much as possible. Sometimes the office gets crowded with people asking about when their new houses will be finished or where the parks are going to be. We don't use fancy words to explain the delays, we just show them the actual progress on the ground. My desk is usually covered in site reports and sketches of different floor plans. It is not a flashy job but seeing a building go from a hole in the ground to a place where families actually live is something special. The sun gets very hot here during the summer months, so we try to get most of the heavy work done early in the morning. We have a small crew and we all know each other well enough to get the job done without too much talk. It is just about making sure the walls are straight and the roofs are solid. We have a few more projects coming up and that keeps us busy through the weekends too.