Elizabeth Hausler aims to bring quake-resistant construction to the developing world : Interview.

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Pune-based start-up develops a new model of construction that cuts cost and reduces labour

A masonry product that cuts out the use of cement and sand and does not require water curing is what Punebased Green Build Products has developed as its core product line.

Bombay High Court order on Writ Petition No. 97 2011 with Writ Petition No. 98 2011 on sand mining. The court has directed the Maharashtra government not to award any contract for sand mining or allow further excavation until and unless the agency concerned obtains an environmental clearance.

Cancer epidemics in Turkey could hold the secret to staving off a public health disaster in North Dakota.

The present laboratory study reports the results of various engineering properties, such as compressive strength, tensile strength, flexural strength and impact strength of fibre reinforced concrete produced from waste plastic fibres and flyash which are the two environmental pollutants.

Mumbai In the wake of recent Bombay High Court order imposing a state-wide ban on sand extraction from river-beds, developers in Mumbai have asked the state government to allow them more time to switch to some other alternative means.

The Builders

Sanjay Jog / Mumbai October 05, 2010, 0:25 IST

The real estate sector in Maharashtra foresees a loss of Rs 2,000 crore due to the ban on extraction of sand by the Bombay High Court.

Vernacular architecture is still very popular and constructed widely in North-East India. In this paper, the result of long-term monitoring of two vernacular houses selected one in Tezpur (warm and humid climate) and other one in Cherrapunjee (cold and cloudy climate) are presented.

This paper attempts to formulate Overall Thermal Transfer Value (OTTV) coefficients for Composite, Hot-Dry and Warm-Humid climates, the three main tropical climates in India. Four existing air-conditioned office buildings – two mid-rise and two high-rise were modeled as case studies using eQuest v.3.6, which is a DoE2.2, based building energy simulation tool. Based on the study of building envelope, loads, operation and HVAC system characteristics of these case study buildings, a hypothetical high-rise, 16 storey office building, octagonal in plan was created for parametric studies.

This study is a survey of the different types of tools and implements used for building operations in the Yoruba Indigenous Architecture of Nigeria. The tools include

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