Habitat And Urbanisation

Call to beef up urban infrastructure

Confederation of Indian Industry, Eastern Region, organised a session with Prof. John D. Macomber, Lecturer in Real Estate at Harvard Business School, on sustainable development of urban infrastructure and construction sector here on Wednesday, according to a CII release.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2009
Business Line (New Delhi)
Tags:
Habitat And Urbanisation, Migration, Displacement, Construction Industry, People, West Bengal, Sustainable Development, Infrastructure Development
Habitat And Urbanisation

Green home: a decision making guide for owners and builders

What does a "green" home look like? What are its characteristics, and how can you ensure that you meet the highest green standards within a given budget? The answers to these questions and more are found in The Green Home, a book dedicated to teaching builders and homeowners alike about environmentally-friendly residential construction.

Publication Date: 
Sep 2009
Lynn Underwood
Delmar Cengage Learning
Tags:
Green Buildings, Construction Industry
Solid Waste

PCERF to organise symposium on waste management tomorrow

Pune The Pune Construction Engineering Research Foundation (PCERF), has organised Waste Busters, a symposium on the utilisation of waste materials for construction industry at Dr Bhanuben Nanavati College of Architecture, Karve nagar on August 2.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2009
Indian Express (Mumbai)
Tags:
Building Materials, Construction Industry, Solid Waste, Waste Management, Maharashtra, Pune (T)
Environment

Terms of reference [TOR] for EIA report for activities / projects requiring environmental clearance

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a planning tool now generally accepted as an integral component of sound decision-making. The Environmental Clearance [EC] process for majority of projects will comprise of a maximum of four stages

Publication Date: 
01/08/2009
Ministry of Environment and Forests
Tags:
Environment, Mining, Minerals, Asbestos, Ports, Coal, Buildings, Construction Industry, Highways, Industry, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Environment Impact Assessment (EIA)
Environment

Recycling concrete: towards zero landfill

This report argues that recycling concrete reduces natural resource exploitation and waste going to landfill. It asks for an ultimate goal of

Publication Date: 
01/07/2009
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Tags:
Carbon Dioxide, Green House Gases, Green Buildings, Cement, Construction Industry, Landfill, India, Global, Sustainable Development, Waste Recycling
Habitat And Urbanisation

Vertical aspirations

Replicating Manhattan with all its imposing skyscrapers in Mumbai does sound like a dream come true. But do highrises offer a sustainable solution for our land starved metros that are rapidly suffocating under the weight of an ever increasing populace and a crumbling infrastructure?

Publication Date: 
01/06/2009
Rajesh Kulkarni
Construction Week
1
9
39-42
Tags:
High Rise Building, Mumbai, Green Buildings, Energy Efficiency, Construction Industry, Infrastructure Development, India, Urban Housing
Dams/ Irrigation

Andhra casts funds loose to water irrigation projects

IVRCL, Nagarjuna Construction & Lanco Have Orders Worth Rs 8k Cr
Trushna U & Sai Deepika Amirapu HYDERABAD

JUST two days after returning to power, Congress government in Andhra Pradesh has started releasing funds to infrastructure companies implementing big-ticket irrigation projects in the state, valued at over Rs 1.2 trillion.

Publication Date: 
20/05/2009
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Irrigation, Construction Industry, Andhra Pradesh, Infrastructure Development, Nagarjuna Construction Company (NCC)
Environment

Real estate and agricultural wetlands in Kerala

The "rice culture" of Kerala is fast vanishing due to the increasing diversion of the land for non-agricultural purposes. The real estate sector is gradually swallowing up the rice cultivating low-lying wetlands. This paper attempts to examine the growth of real estate business and consequent destruction of the wetland ecosystems in the state.

Publication Date: 
31/01/2009
P P Nikhil Raj, P A Azeez
Economic and Political Weekly
44
5
63
Tags:
Environment, Wetlands, Ecosystem Services, Land Use, Agriculture, Rice, Construction Industry, Legislation, Kerala, Statistics, Ecosystems
Habitat And Urbanisation

Green building A review paper

This paper mainly emphasizes on the more or less modern concept of green building, mainly emphasizes on the more or less modern concept of green building, mainly emphasizing on their environmental impact, the various materials required and their rating system in India. Few examples of green buildings in India have been cited too.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2009
Shibnath Chakrabarty, Swarnali Sanyal
Journal of the Institution of Public Health Engineers
2009
1
47
Tags:
Water Conservation, Health Effects, Energy Efficiency, Habitat And Urbanisation, Green Buildings, Building Materials, Architecture, Construction Industry, India
Industry

Steel may emerge as alternative to concrete

Steel use could save construction period and give more usable space
Concrete could face competition from steel as a better alternative building material, said the JSW Steel vice-chairman and managing director, Mr Sajjan Jindal.

On Monday, JSW Steel and UK-based Severfield Rowen Plc formed a 50:50 joint venture company JSW Severfield Structures Ltd.

Publication Date: 
18/11/2008
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Building Materials, Cement, Construction Industry

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