HCC is a business group of global scale, developing and building responsible infrastructure through next practices. HCC has a history that dates to the 1920's, when pioneering industrialist Seth Walchand Hirachand had constructed the Borghat Railway Tunnel on the Bombay – Poona railway line. Incidentally, the Borghat Tunnel continues to serve this rail route even today. Subsequently, in 1926, Seth Walchand founded the Hindustan Construction Company. Over the years, HCC has built many of modern India's most challenging infrastructure projects: including the Bandra Worli Sea Link; the hill city of Lavasa; the Mumbai - Pune Expressway, India's largest nuclear power plant at Kudankulam, Tamil Nadu and high-altitude hydel power projects in the Himalayas. HCC today has a knowledge asset of over 3,000 officers, including around 1,600 engineers. It employs around 25,000 workers at its project sites across India. The HCC Group of companies comprises of HCC Ltd., HCC Real Estate Ltd, Lavasa Corporation Ltd., HCC Infrastructure Co. Ltd., and Steiner AG. Committed to deliver 'Responsible Infrastructure', HCC executes initiatives in Water Sustainability, Disaster Relief and Response, HIV/AIDS Awareness, Community Development and Education. HCC was adjudged for Best Social Investment Strategy by the World CSR Congress in February 2013 and also accorded the ‘Civic Award for Social Development' by the Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry in June 2013.