Building Materials

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding sinking of Liberian ship off the Kochi coast, Kerala, 27/05/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Containers from sunken ship likely to drift towards Alappuzha, Kollam Coasts in 48 hours: INCOIS" appearing in The Hindu dated 25.05.2025 dated 27/05/2025. The original application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled …

Green buildings: it’s common sense

Frenzied growth in real estate and changing lifestyle in Indian cities are inciting resource guzzling. Architects have innovative ideas to build green homes.

Delhi’s last chance to be a green city

Experts Demand Environment-Friendly Building Norms For New Urban Areas New Delhi: The new areas of Delhi, categorized as ‘urbanizable areas’ in Master Plan 2021, are mainly tracts of farmland dotted with farmhouses. But now that they have been opened up for urbanization, city-based urban planners and architects want the government …

Report of the technical group (TG-12) on urban housing shortage (2012-17)

Over 11 million houses are lying unused and vacant in urban India reveals this new report on urban housing shortage for the 12th plan period (2012-17) released by the Ministry of Urban Housing and Poverty Alleviation. The technical group on estimation of urban housing shortage for the Twelfth Plan (TG-12) …

Modern buildings cannot breathe

Kolkata-based architect Laurent Fournier tells how ceilings can float and why bamboo-reed-mud make more sense than brick-concrete-steel.

OSPCB asked to prepare action plan for fly ash disposal in 3 months

Bhubaneswar: Expressing concern over huge fly ash generation, utilisation and disposal, chairman of the Department related Standing Committee MLA Prafulla Mallick today directed the Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) to prepare Action Plan within three months. The Committee has recommended the OSPCB officials to prepare action plans for individual …

Rural housing goes online

On 15 July, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi hosted a group of professionals working on rural housing in diverse geographies of the country. The agenda for the meeting, which was co-hosted by several partners, was to present a portal built for the rural housing sector (www.ruralhousingnetwork.com) and to …

City temp registers rise upto 2.5°C: Study

The temperature in the city is rising and the matter is of grave concern. If not attended to now, it will lead to some irreversible damage and leave us with no natural resources for the next generation. According to a study by the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, …

Finally, nod to mining in 25 quarries

Impact: The prices of sand and gravel will come down. Chandigarh:The Punjab Government has finally got approval from the Environment Impact Assessment Committee allowing mining in 25 quarries with an area of over 5 hectares.The state can now allow mining operations on over 10,800 acres of land. It is learnt …

Ludhiana builders’ body blames sand, brick price rise on mining mafia

Ludhiana: Members of the Ludhiana Builders’ Association have complained to the government that the state’s building industry is in the grips of a very active mining mafia. Construction material like sand, bricks and crusher have suddenly experienced an artificial hike in prices since March 31, when the state failed to …

Green building has surplus power

Even from the outside, the IRRAD building gives you the feeling of tranquillity. Its dull reddish-brown façade looks like it has yachts sailing across it, except they are all upside down. Later I would find out that the sails of these ‘yachts’ are actually triangular curtains, specially designed to keep …

Green NGO calls for minimisation of resource guzzling

A green NGO today warned against environmental debacle in Indian cities if resource guzzling and waste generation in the building construction sector is not minimised. Noting that Indian cities are extremely ill prepared to address the environmental fallouts of the aggressive building construction that is underway, the Centre for Science …

How safe are our rural structures? Lessons from the 2011 Sikkim Earthquake

Increasing frequency and intensity of earthquakes has renewed the urgency in improving the preparedness and in making the infrastructure earthquake-resistant. Sikkim, a northeastern Indian Himalayan state, was hit by a 6.9 magnitude earthquake of intensity VII on 18 September 2011, which triggered hundreds of boulder falls and landslides, causing extensive …

Sand slips

Some states have banned mechanised mining, but the mafia is not ready to obey. Illegal mining is hollowing the riverbed putting at risk the stability and ecology of rivers. This special report in Down To Earth examines the murky business of sand mining. Where there is a river, there is …

Air dispersion modeling of brick kilns: Siting criteria and good house keeping practices for brick industry in Uttar Pradesh

Present study deals with the stack and ambient air quality monitoring of brick klins in Uttar Pradesh and air dispersion modeling was carried out using the Gaussian model to calculate the ground level concentrations (GLC) of suspended particulate matter (SPM). Based on GLC, criteria has been proposed for installation of …

Rural housing quality as an indicator of consumption sustainability

An exogenously defined poverty line yields poverty headcounts between any two points in time that are a net outcome of the two-way traffic into and out of poverty. This paper argues that, for the rural Indian context, where housing is too lumpy and illiquid to be used for consumption smoothing, …

New green building rating system launched

It will soon be possible to rate buildings according to their environmental friendliness. The upgraded Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design 2011(LEED 2011 for India) rating system for green buildings was launched by the Union Minister of New and Renewable Energy, Dr Farooq Abdullah, on Thursday. The new rating comes …

An overview of techniques based on biomimetics for sustainable development of concrete

Biomimetics is a field of science that studies biological processes for effectively using them in the development of innovative engineering materials and systems. It is a new field of emergence in materials science and engineering in which lessons learned from biology form the basis for evolution of novel technological materials. …

Rockwool opens factory in Gujarat

The stone wool insulation material produced at Dahej, will save 1,000,000,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide annually.

Doorway to green windows

Reducing carbon emissions is not just about curbing vehicular pollutants. Those in the business of green have realised that using energy-efficient construction material can make all the difference. And, windows can help a great deal in the process.

Quake engineer: Earthquakes don't kill, buildings do

Elizabeth Hausler aims to bring quake-resistant construction to the developing world : Interview. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028138.300-quake-engineer-earthquakes-dont-kill-buildings-do.html

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