Green Construction

In my last blog I spoke about the Green Building scenario in India. While writing, I came across a construction practice which involved the use of Fly Ash in Concrete. In this blog I will talk more about some of the benefits of replacing cement by fly ash in concrete. Some of the primary reasons why fly ash is used are the cost benefits, performance and its growing contribution to sustainable construction. Basically fly ash is nothing but waste product that comes from coal fired plants. On an average over a 100-110 million tons of fly ash is produced annually. This waste is not at all treated properly and rather dumped without paying much attention to it. This has resulted to some severe   consequences . Instead of simply letting fly ash harm the environment, it can be put to use in mixing concrete by replacing Portland cement by fly ash. Costs were one of the vital factors the use of fly ash started over 30 years ago. Fly ash definitely is a lot cheaper than cement an...

The Green Building movement started in India in 2001, with the establishment of the Indian Green Building Council (hereafter referred to as IGBC). The IGBC was initiated by the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) along with the World Green Building Council and the USGBC. The USGBC is a popular Green rating system which has been adopted by the IGBC to suit the Indian green building requirements. Since then, India has been intensively working on developing Green Projects all over the country right from home projects to LEED certified factory buildings. IGBC data has shown completion of several LEED certified buildings including hotels shopping centers, office spaces and the state infrastructural project such as the Indira Gandhi International Airport Terminal 3 located the capital city of New Delhi. The first Green Building in India the CII- Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre in Hyderabad was completed on July 14 th  2004. Apart from the business of information tec...