Building materials have ecological footprints

Hazarattaiah works with the Bangalore-based Indian Plywood Industries Research and Training Institute (IPIRTI), an autonomous body under the Union ministry of environment and forests. His organisation is involved in conducting research and development and promotion of use of bamboo in housing construction.

Jeeth K Iype, an architect with Bangalore-based Good Earth, an organisation of architects and engineers experimenting with alternatives in architecture, lives with his wife and two kids at Kengeri town, about 15 kms away from Bangalore city hub on Bangalore-Mysore highway.

Architects across the world are promoting use of building materials derived from industrial waste.

Flyash [Thermal power plants] > Portland pozzolana cement, bricks, lime pozzolana mixture

Phosphogypsum [Fertiliser Plants] > Gypsum plaster, fibrous gypsum boards and blocks, cement clinker

Air conditioning and energy efficiency

Green architecture needs norms and regulations