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LETS BECOME REALLY ECOFRIENDLY WITH GREEN BUILDINGS

Inspite of posing threat to our natural resources it is not just fashionable but very essential to become ecofriendly. Every one from individual, developers as well as institutional sector to corporates are trying to adopt a tag of going green with their projects. A building at Jaipur was awarded best-learning building award of the year at world architecture festival awards (WAF) 2009 at the Centre Conventions International Barcelona, from among 611 projects from all over the world. This was the Jaipur campus of Pearl Academy of Fashion, a building designed in a way that helps in controlling the temperature of internal spaces, i.e.the temperature remains at 28 degrees celsius inside the building even though it is a scorching 46 degrees celsius outside. The main focus was to provide submissive cooling strategies such as open courtyards, water bodies and a stepwell in the academy where the students can overcome the inclement hot weather. Passive environment strategies were used in the academy to decrease power consumption , be it running of air conditioners and lighting.
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COUNCIL OF ARCHITECTURE TO CONDUCT NATA FOR B.ARCH ADMISSIONS.

The Council of Architecture (COA), through its academic unit - National Institute of Advanced Studies in Architecture (NIASA) at Pune, is conducting a National Aptitude Test in Architecture (NATA) for admission to first year of 5-year Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) degree course for various COA approved architectural institutions in the country, for the academic session 2009-2010. It may be noted that as per the Minimum Standards prescribed by COA under the Architects Act, 1972, the admission of candidates to first year of 5-year B.Arch. degree course shall be subject to their passing an aptitude test in architecture....
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FLOATING APARTMENT COMPLEX FOR FLOOD PRONE AREAS

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Keeping houses from flooding is a major problem in Holland, owing to the fact that most of the country is below sea level. Now, architects have found a way to fix the problem by building the Citadel the worlds first floating apartment complex. Seasickness should be no problem as the complex will float on a massive concrete foundation that is designed to remain perfectly stable as the water rises and falls....
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DELHI-NCR TO HAVE NEW GREEN BUILDINGS:Era of Eco Friendly buildings

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Green Building is a structures which iS energy efficient in performance. The expenditure on consumptions to various types of energies is reduced due to adoption of eco frinedly technologies, building materials leading to saving if operational costs. The time has come when corporates are becoming more conscious of energy efficient buildings as their offices as status symbols. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s visit to the ITC Green Centre in Gurgaon, one of the region’s four buildings to be certified ‘green’, drew the world’s attention to what Clinton referred to as the ‘‘monument to the future". The national capital Delhi is likely to get such types of monuments as several buildings have now switched over to green technology to save energy, including Rashtrapati Bhavan that is saving about Rs 60 lakh annually by shifting to a more environment-friendly technology....
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ENERGY AUDITING OF BUILDINGS SHOULD BE MADE MANDATORY

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It is well said that a penny saved is a penny earned, Due to automation and construction of high end buildings and unplanned development without energy efficiency consideration has exponentially increased the cost spent in energy. The energy conservation in buildings has been not considered moistly and got neglected leading to shear wastage of precious energy resources. The concept of energy efficient buildings had been underestimated but energy auditing of the buildings has swiftly got the significance to make the built up structure sustainable in the terms of use of building materials, planning and designing of the buildings to make it cutting cost in use of energy. The basic concept is the natural materials, solar energy and power is to be used very economical efficient way. Enery is highly wasted mailnly in commercial buildings in the form of uplanned used of electricity, HVAC syatem, wastage of natural resorces which is leading a serious threat. ...
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Doing Brick Works in Buildings: Practical Construction Overview.

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Brick work has been very important, old and conventional method of creating load bearing structure. Along with the time the quality and technology of making bricks has been changed.In the modern time the first class bricks are made by the alluvial soil which is mainly available in the indo gigantic plains and cause loss of very fertile soil layer. Now a days treated fly ash is also being used as important ingredient to save alluvial/fertile soil and to use fly ash being produced by thermal power plants. ...
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Rating of Office Buildings:Green tag for office buildings that save power

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The Power Ministry Body has decided to Certify the office buildings for Annual Consumption of power. We need to Get ready for certified energy efficient buildings now. Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), after having started a star rating programme for electronic goods, is extending the scheme to buildings as well. The ratings, meant only for offices at present, will award certificates to buildings based on their energy consumption over a period of at least one year. ...
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Commonwealth Games Infrastructure: Noted Architects Charles Correa to examine Sirifort problem

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THE SUPREME Court has asked conservationist Charles Correa to examine the terms of references given by contesting parties in the Sirifort Sports Complex case and requested him to work out the modalities for the upcoming squash and badminton complexes for the Commonwealth Games. Correa would, however, have tough time as three separate terms of references have been sent to him. While advocate Harish Salve, who is assisting the special forest bench, has sought for a complete investigation into the project, DDA counsel has objected to letting Correa investigate the possibility of fixing another venue for the complex. ...
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MCD INTRODUCES NORMS FOR QUICK SANCTIONS OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDING PLANS

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The MCD has introduced new procedure for quick approval of residential buildings to facilitate the authorised and early constructions. KK-RAW digs out more about this trnapsrency reform from MCD. ...
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Expo on building materials

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The latest products and services in the construction industry would be on display at the four-day fair of building materials, BuildMat 2009, to be ...
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