Building Materials

Judgement of the Gujarat High Court regarding villagers opposing an industrial unit to construct a road to transport its vehicles and machinery, District Valsad, Gujarat, 31/08/2015

Judgement of the Gujarat High Court in the matter of Platinum AAC Blocks Private Ltd. Vs State of Gujarat & Others dated 31/08/2015 regarding villagers opposing an industrial unit engaged in manufacturing of Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (AAC) Blocks to construct a road to transport its vehicles and machineries to its industrial unit, village Mohangam, Taluka Umargam, District Valsad.

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Judgement Date:

31/08/2015

Tags:

Land, Land Ownership, Industry, Valsad (D), Gujarat, Gram Panchayat, Building Materials, Rural Roads, Farmers, Agriculture, High Court, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)

Solid Waste

CSE welcomes Delhi govt move to use recycled C&D waste

A green body today welcomed the Delhi government's decision to mandate recycled products from construction and demolition (C&D) waste for its building projects in future and urged it to to anno

Publication Date:

27/08/2015

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)

Tags:

Delhi, Building Materials, Waste Disposal, Waste Recycling, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Solid Waste

Environment

Construction dump causing trouble to Pension Nagar residents

Nagpur: The residents of Pension Nagar, behind Police Line Takli, are facing problems due to dumping of construction material in an open plot amid the residential area.

Publication Date:

18/08/2015

Author(s): Manka Behl

Source: Times of India (Nagpur)

Tags:

Maharashtra, Noise Pollution, Construction Industry, Air Pollution, Building Materials, Environmental Health, Environment

Climate Change

Impact of urbanization on US surface climate

The researchers combined Landsat and MODIS data in a land model to assess the impact of urbanization on US surface climate. For cities built within forests, daytime urban land surface temperature (LST) is much higher than that of vegetated lands. For example, in Washington DC and Atlanta, daytime mean temperature differences between impervious and vegetated lands reach 3.3 and 2.0 °C, respectively. Conversely, for cities built within arid lands, such as Phoenix, urban areas are 2.2 °C cooler than surrounding shrubs.

Publication Date:

12/08/2015

Author(s): Lahouari Bounoua, Ping Zhang, Georgy Mostovoy & et al

Source: Environmental Research Letters

Vol:

8

Issue:

10

pp:

1-9

Tags:

Climate, Urbanisation, United States Of America (US), Green Spaces, Remote Sensing, Carbon Sequestration, Forests, Building Materials, Grasslands, Climate Change

Solid Waste

NGT pulls up DMRC for dumping waste in Yamuna

The National Green Tribunal has pulled up Delhi government, Delhi Jal Board and the corporations for failing to submit progress reports on steps taken by them for reducing pollution in the Yamuna.

Publication Date:

22/07/2015

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)

Tags:

Delhi, Waste Disposal, Yamuna, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), National Green Tribunal (NGT), Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC), Building Materials, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Delhi Jal Board (DJB), Solid Waste

Hazardous Waste

Sirvoi quarries reek of industrial waste

Quepem: Industrial waste, including some potentially hazardous types, is being dumped in blatant violation of the law for quite some time on a large scale in the abandoned laterite stone quarries a

Publication Date:

13/07/2015

Author(s): Johnny M

Source: Times Of India (Goa)

Tags:

Industrial Waste, Building Materials, Waste Disposal, Landfill, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Hazardous Waste

Science And Technology

The self-healing concrete that can fix its own cracks

The green technology embeds self-activating bacteria into concrete to make it self-healing, but will it win over a risk-averse construction industry?

Publication Date:

29/06/2015

Source: Guardian (UK)

Tags:

Science And Technology, Building Materials, Buildings, WWF, China, India, Cement

Habitat And Urbanisation

Six builders penalized for violating construction code

GURGAON: The Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) has fined six developers amounts between Rs 1.5 lakh and Rs 2.5 lakh each during the past month, after they were found violating the Union

Publication Date:

22/06/2015

Author(s): Shilpy Arora

Source: Times Of India (Gurgaon)

Tags:

Haryana, Gurgaon (D), Construction Industry, National Green Tribunal (NGT), State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Building Materials, Pollution, Habitat And Urbanisation

Habitat And Urbanisation