A peer-to-peer survey by India's prestigious business publication Business World affirmed L&T's leadership status in the field of infrastructure. The survey, conducted by the reputed Indian Market Research Bureau, polled over 500 senior professionals in India's major cities. Respondents were asked to rate firms on 19 pre-selected parameters like top management leadership, ability to attract, manage and retain talent, quality of products and services, belief in customer satisfaction and speed of response to change and returns to shareholders.

Business World had this to say about the infrastructure sector and the eventual winner - L&T: "There's a major effort to make Indian roads world-class. Between 2000 and 2007, the National Highways Authority of India will have built 14,180 km of roads under National Highways Development Programme. All this for a whopping Rs 54000 crore….Though the project has been portioned and handed out to different contractors, the Mumbai-based L&T is doing a large chunk of the work essentially laying down some 386 km of roads at a cost of Rs 1,654 crore in the Golden Quadrilateral alone. And given the kind of emotions that the entire road project has evoked, with all hues of politicians, bureaucrats, businessmen and patriots extolling its virtues, it's perhaps fitting that L&T emerges as India's most respected company in the infrastructure sector."

Services Offered by L&T For Infrastructure Development

Engineering
L&T executes turnkey execution of process platforms, well platforms and pipelines, onshore plants and marine terminals for oil and gas and special projects.

Power
L&T sets up large power generation projects for utilities and independent power projects (IPP) as EPC contractor. Projects are undertaken on a lumpsum turnkey (LSTK) basis with full compliance to international standards. Also offered are complete solutions from concept to commissioning to power-intensive industries in setting up captive/cogeneration power plants on an EPC basis.

Nuclear Power
L&T has made significant contribution to India's Nuclear Power Programme through critical equipment supplies and construction services. L&T offers a comprehensive range of services including design, engineering, supply, erection and commissioning of primary piping systems; secondary/steam and water piping systems; turnkey packages for heavy water plants; utility packages and electric turnkey solutions.

Construction
L&T undertakes construction of bridges, roads, expressways, railway lines, airport complexes, ports, harbours and waterfront structures.