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reen Building- The creation of a sustainable future depends on the knowledge as well as participation of the people, as well as an understanding of the consequences of individual behavior. Construction industry has long been associated with the harmful effects to our mother earth. As concepts of Green building took form in new real trends and planning curriculum, Green building in general continues to have not received much attention with the public. The awareness in the Middle East of the importance of sustainability and the value of green buildings is rapidly increasing day after day. The UAE has increased its total amount of LEED-certified space by 72 percent since last year, now ranking eighth on the US Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Top 10 Countries for LEED list. LED Lightings- Despite fluctuations in the economy and the general lighting industry, LED lighting continues to occupy a significant portion of the overall lighting market. According toTrendForce, LED lighting market penetration will reach 31 percent of the $82.1 billion global lighting market in 2015. Europe is the largest geographic market segment—accounting for 23 percent of the global lighting market share, followed by China at 21 percent and the US at 19 percent. Industry analysts predict significant growth over the next decade.
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news at glance 27th edition of INDEX successfully concludes in Mumbai
• Participation from Turkey, UK, Spain, China & more. • Over 300 companies, 500 brands & 21,000 plus visitors n The 27th edition of India`s leading international interiors and design show, INDEX by UBM Index fairs, was launched at the MMRDA Exhibition Centre, Mumbai, by a panel of VIPs including Zarine Khan, connoisseur of interior design, eminent artist Brinda Miller, well-known architect Karan Grover, Pratap Jadhav (IIID), Mohan Deshpande (HPMF) in the presence of an illustrious audience of industry members, designers, celebrities and dignitaries.
Sobha Limited bags two prestigious awards at Realty Plus Conclave & Excellence Awards 2015 n Sobha Limited, India’s premium real estate developer, has won two prestigious awards at the recently-held Realty Plus Conclave & Excellence Awards 2015 for the South region. One of Sobha’s landmark projects, Sobha Lifestyle Legacy in Bengaluru has won the ‘Villa Project of the Year’ award while the marketing campaign of Sobha Arena in Bengaluru has been adjudged the ‘Innovative Marketing Concept of the Year’.
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The show was held from 15 - 18th Oct. and boasted 300+ companies promoting over 500 brands including country pavilions from Turkey, UK, Spain and China, along with exhibitors from Italy, Australia, Malaysia, Nepal and more. It connected manufacturers and traders dealing in furniture and fittings, OEM white goods, accessories, lighting and a complete range of materials, kitchen, office and hardware for contract use, with architects, interior designers, builders, project managers, consultants, procurement heads across the hospitality, corporate, government, kitchen and bath sectors.
Häfele launches its Häfele ICONIC Sanitary brand ‘AQUA TRENDZ’ BATHROOM FAUCETS n Häfele, the world leader in architectural hardware, furniture and kitchen fittings introduces its Häfele Iconic Sanitary ‘Aqua Trendz’ Bathroom Faucets. Häfele has pioneered the way fittings are sold in India for over 10 years. Being a German company its foremost concern has always been to offer customer’s premium quality products at competitive prices paired with solution based services. Häfele takes this concept to the next level with the introduction of the new Häfele ICONIC brand ‘AQUA TRENDZ’ (Left to Right) Mr. Pankaj Kumar National BATHROOM FAUCETS which signifies the “Best Manager Sales - Sanitary and Mr. Jurgen Wolf of the Best” from each product category. - Managing Director, Häfele India Pvt. Ltd.
DLF Malls becomes the first in Asia and Middle East to receive “SWORD of HONOUR” from BSC n India’s leading real estate company, DLF is pleased to announce conferment of “SWORD OF HONOUR” from British Safety Council for 06 buildings in Delhi / NCR towards best practice in Occupational Health & Safety. DLF Malls are the only Malls in Asia and Middle East who have received prestigious “5 Star” Excellence Certification and “SWORD of HONOUR” from British Safety Council.
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news at glance CP Kukreja Awards for Design Excellence 2015 n CP Kukreja Awards for Design Excellence 2015, a prestigious design award conducted by Foundation for Design Excellence to encourage the role of Youth in imagining future cities, successfully completed its first cycle by felicitating the winners at the Lalit Hotel in New Delhi on September 26. The glittering awards ceremony was witnessed by a galaxy of audience consisting of Members of Parliament, Governors, Mayor of Delhi, Ambassadors, Architects and Designers hailing from across From Left: Architect Dikshu C. Kukreja with Mrs. S. Kukreja (Architect CP Kukreja’s wife) and H.E. Mr. Jairam Ramesh India and abroad. (Former Minister of Environment, Government of India).
K Raheja Corp bags 2 awards at the Asian Leadership Awards 2015 n Realty major K Raheja Corp has bagged two awards at the prestigious Asian CSR Leadership Awards 2015, last week. Pioneering and staying committed to the green cause over the years, recognition was received in the categories of -Best Environmental Friendly Project, and CSR Leadership. Initiated in 2010, The Asian Leadership Awards (ALA) is presented to remarkable business leaders and organizations in the continent for their continuing commitment to excellence, developing best practices and innovative strategies.
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Johnson Controls and Hitachi complete global air conditioning joint venture New products and technology partnership begins operations n Johnson Controls, (NYSE: JCI), Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501) and Hitachi Appliances, Inc. today announced the companies have completed their global joint venture agreement and will immediately commence operations of Johnson Controls-Hitachi Air Conditioning to provide global customers with a full range of world class air conditioning products and technology. Through the agreement, Johnson Controls has acquired a 60 percent ownership stake of the new entity, which has more than ¥350 billion in sales annually (approximately $2.8 billion). Hitachi Appliances retains ownership of the remaining 40 percent of the company.
2nd Smart Cities India 2016 to showcase smarter solutions for a better tomorrow n International interest in India’s smart cities mission, announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is rising – as evidenced by the offer of German assistance by Chancellor Angela Merkel during her visit to India recently. The Indian government is steadfast in its commitment towards smart cities, and has introduced programs such as Make in India, Digital India, the Smart Cities Mission, and Housing for All. These initiatives have been met with great appreciation from across the world, and have boosted the confidence of the investor community in the smart cities domain. Supporting the smart cities mission, Exhibitions India is organising the 2nd edition of the Smart Cities India 2016 expo at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, from 11-13 May 2016.
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news at glance FII India hosted Woodworking professionals Meet in Mumbai to explore possibilities with Canadian Wood
Amrapali Group launches High Life 2 n Amrapali Group – a leading name in the real estate market has renewed its vow to provide affordable houses for the masses by launching its new project High Life 2 in Greater Noida region.This festive season when buyers sentiment has been positive and the amount of queries being on the rise, to entice its potential buyers Amrapali Group has announced its High Life 2 project which is a 1BHK project of 522 flats situated at a prime location in Greater Noida. In this project, flats are available in just Rs. 25 lacs with 585 sq ft. area. Actual price of these flats are Rs. 4750/- per sq ft. but if buyers book their flat in this festive season, he will get Rs. 250 Sq. ft. discount.
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Sanjay Gupta- Market and Product Development specialist wood products_ FII India addressing the gathering_
n Forestry Innovation Consulting India Pvt. Ltd. (FII India) organized a Woodworking professionals Meet in Mumbai which showcased the versatility of Canadian Wood species - Western Hemlock, Yellow-Cedar, Douglas-fir, SPF and Western Red Cedar. The event saw a gathering of 130 attendees which included contractors, carpenters and other woodworking professionals. The seminar conducted by Canadian Wood experts educated the audience on lumber sizes, grades, individual species’ features and availability in India. The event proved to be an excellent platform for knowledge sharing, networking and allowed people to experience first-hand the qualities of Canadian Wood. An interactive session covered several topics such as use of wood in furniture, panelling, door and door frames, outdoor applications of decking, gazebos etc.
JSPL’s Steel to Power Construction of India’s Fastest 33 Storied Building in 99 days n The Structural Steel Division of Jindal Steel and Power Ltd. (JSPL) has partnered with Bhasin Group for construction of Festival City, India’s tallest composite steel structure. The world-class commercial complex spread over 9 lakh square feet in NOIDA, the 33 storied Festival City will be built in 99 days, Fastest ever in India. The construction of the office tower ‘Mist’ commenced on 21st October 2015 and is scheduled for completion on 29th January 2016.
HSIL introduces New Range of Instant Water Heaters Introduces innovation and product prowess in the world of home comfort appliances n The leading sanitaryware company, HSIL limited, in association with Groupe Atlantic, a prominent player in thermal comfort in France & Europe and experts in water heating systemsintroduced a first-of-its-kind range of revolutionary water heaters in the Indian market. Co-branded as ‘hindware-atlantic’, they promise to deliver a strong value proposition to consumers through a product that is technologically superior, modern in look and functionality.
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news at glance Pidilite launches Roff Experience Centre in Kochi
WACKER Presents Novel Polymer Binders and Silicones for Water-Repellent Wood Coatings, Waterproofing Systems, Skim Coats and Fire Protection Coatings n The WACKER Group is presenting a range of innovations for challenging coatings and sealants: Wood impregnated with the new silicone resin emulsion SILRES® WH is protected against damp, moisture and damage caused by fungi and insects for an exceedingly long time. Another local premiere is the new silaneterminated polymer binder GENIOSIL® XT for industrial adhesives and liquid water-proofing systems. Additional highlights are the dispersible powder VINNAPAS® 5518 H for hydrophobic skim coats and the disper-sions VINNAPAS® EZ 3112 and VINNAPAS® EZ 3066 for intumes-cent coatings. ABRAFATI is being held from October 13 to 15 in São Paulo, Brazil.
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A unique Experience Centre to showcase the adhesive, grouting & maintenance range of Roff n Roff from the house of Pidilite, the industry leader in Construction Chemicals, has launched Roff Experience Centre in Kochi, the first of its kind Experience Centre to spread awareness and facilitate exploration, while adopting latest solutions in tiling and stone installation. The Experience Centre was inaugurated by Mr. A. S. Sundaresan, CEO-Retail – Construction Chemicals Division and Ar. L. Gopakumar, Spearhead - Architects Group. It is the first of many that will eventually get created in focus towns for construction chemicals division.
Le Solitairian adds excitement to the Festive Season with lucrative offers on new bookings The leading real estate developer has lined up gifts of Rs 2 lakh to Rs 10 lakh to make this festive season truly auspicious for the new buyers n Realty major Le Solitairian (Solitairian Group) has announced the launch of its festive season campaign with a unique range of exciting festival offers for the home buyers. Boosting the home buyers’ sentiment and adding to the fervor of the festive season, the company has organized an innovative game, “Spin The Lucky Wheel” for the new buyers visiting its project sites. The winners at this game will be eligible for an attractive discount scheme offered by the company. Announcing the special scheme, Mr. Arjunpreet Singh Sahni, Executive Director, Solitairian Group, said, “With our exciting offers, we wish to be a part of our customers’ lives and celebrations.
Axis announcesexplosion protected network cameras for hazardous areas n The cameras feature stainless steel housingsand offer amongst others full HDTV resolution image quality. They are ideally suited for video surveillance monitoring of onshore, offshore, marine, and heavy industrial environments, such as the oil and gas industry, as well as dusty environments, such as paper and textile industries. Axis Communications, the market leader in network video, introduces its first explosion protected network cameras. XF40-Q1765 Explosion Protected Fixed Network Camera and XP40-Q1765 Explosion Protected PTZ Network Camera both feature a 316L stainless steel housing certified for hazardous areas according to amongst others ATEX, IECEx,cLCus and Class I, II/Div 1 for OSHA.
The explosion protected network camerasare suited for hazardous areas such as oil and gas rigs and refineries and chemical processing plants.
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news at glance Oberoi Realtyto create an Exceptional Living Experience in Mumbai
Kirby India Wins D&B Infra Award 2015 for Implementation Excellence
n Kirby Building Systems India Pvt. Ltd has won the prestigious Dun & Bradstreet Infra Award 2015 in the Industrial Projects (Implementation Excellence) category. The award is conferred for the execution of manufacturing facility of Toshiba-JSW Power Systems Pvt. Ltd. This is the second time that Kirby India has won this award with the first one being in the year 2013. This project was selected by jury team consisting of eminent people from the corporate world after rigorous evaluation based on various parameters like fabrication quality, safety and timely completion of construction. We thank Dun & Bradstreet and the jury team for selecting Kirby India for this award which will further solidify our customer’s faith in Kirby.
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Launches its most awaited project “Sky City” at Borivali n Oberoi Realty today announcedthe launch of “SkyCity” at Borivali, Mumbai. Spread across 25 acres of land; Sky City will consist of multiple towers ofupto 60 storeys each. The company plans to launch the first phase of this development consisting of 3 towers. Theapartments at Sky City will comprise predominantly of expansive 3 bedrooms in various configurations,with carpet areas starting from1029 sq. ft. onwards The project is strategically located off the Western Express Highway offering excellent connectivity to business districts and leisure options like malls, hotels, theatres and parks. Based on the design concept of multi-terraced gardens, the development will boast of wide-open recreational areas and lush green landscapes.
Ahuja Constructions launches O2, a colossal blessing for nature lovers n Ahuja Constructions, a real estate firm, with its presence in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai, has launched its luxurious residential tower, O2 in the heart of central suburbs. The project which is spread extensively around 2.5 acres of land has been crafted with thoughtfully designed apartments replete with all amenities. Truly, a tribute to nature O2 has been designed to celebrate life around the lush green heavens .The project is a masterpiece development at Sion that endows a feeling of nirvana that boasts of luxury, open spaces, panoramic views within the complex and also the surroundings.
Bamburi launches a Mobile Concrete Testing Laboratory n In what is a first for the Kenyan construction industry, Bamburi Cement has today introduced a Mobile Concrete Laboratory to enable its customers conduct on-site testing of materials and offer solid technical advice on concrete at various construction sites. The launch reaffirms Bamburi Cement’s evolution from a building materials supplier to a construction solutions provider. The Mobile Concrete laboratory, in which Bamburi Cement has invested over Kshs.15 million, is fitted with state of the art equipment for conducting on-site tests.
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news at glance The GVK lounge at Mumbai airport’s terminal 2 won the best airport lounge in Asia award at the World Travel Awards 2015 recently.
Energy Efficiency Market Report 2015 highlights cuts in greenhouse gases from investments in energy efficiency n As the world prepares for the COP21 climate negotiations in Paris this year, that energy efficiency improvements since 1990 in IEA member countries avoided 870 million tonnes of CO2 emissions in 2014 – and a cumulative 10 billion tonnes over the last 25 years, roughly equivalent to current annual emissions by all IEA member countries.
n The lounge has been further nominated for the ‘World’s Best Lounge’ in World Travel Awards where it will compete with the finalists, that is, the best airport lounges in different continents. The event will be held in Morocco later this year. The lounge, designed and executed by Mumbai architect Alfaz Miller and fashion designer Sandeep Khosla, is based on a concept from Softroom Architects. Spread across an area of 30,000 sq. ft. across two levels, the Lounge was inaugurated in November last year. It has a seating capacity of 440 spread over lounge seating area, bar seating and dining area with live kitchen having international menu options. In response to the awards, Ar. Miller said, “The mandate from Sanjay Reddy, was to make it the best Lounge in the World! The Award validates that the GVK lounge is world class. It is the result of immense skill and effort of the ABM Architects team along with styling inputs from Sandeep Khosla.”
Soleriq L 38 offers excellent color appearance and quality of light for aesthetic illumination n LED filaments instead of tungsten wire. Osram Opto Semiconductors presents the Soleriq L 38, the first filament LED in its product range. The long thin shape of the LEDs provides the basis for filament lamps which, in terms of their appearance and their emission characteristics, are more than a match for their incandescent lamp predecessors. The Soleriq LEDs offer an extremely uniform color appearance and quality of light, creating a pleasant atmosphere
Private sector to lightup a third of households without access to the grid by 2020 n The off-grid lighting and household electrification sector will help light upclose to 100 million homes by 2020, according to market trends presented at the 4th International Off-Grid Lighting Conference, organized by the Global Off-Grid Lighting Association (GOGLA) and the World Bank Group (WBG), in Dubai, UAE last week. The event showcasedglobal efforts to improve energy access for those without reliable, grid-based electricityby
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promoting clean, quality off-grid lighting solutions.To date, the industry has helped customers save around $3 billion in outgoings such as kerosene and batteries, according to WBG and GOGLA-collected data presented at the event.
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product line Dow Construction Chemical
Acrylic elastomeric roof coating (ERC) for roof Protection & maintenance
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lastomeric Roof Coating, abbreviated as ERC, is defined as a liquid applied, seamless, fully adhered flexible membrane formed on a flat/low slope roof. ERC is a proven technology in North America which has been used widely to protect roofs for the past few decades. This technology not only provides protection to the new roof but also equally beneficial to various aged roofing substrates to extend service. Amit Verma ERC can provide following benefits Technical Manager Dow Construction Chemical n Protective properties (from UV, Email- averma2@dow.com Heat etc.) n Energy management properties (Heat reflection, emissivity) ppearance properties (Dirt Pick up resistance) n A n S olutions for many roofing systems (Adhesion to many roofing substrates) aterproofing solution n W
Table1: Liquid Property Requirements Physical Property
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Viscosity
D562 / D2196
85-141KU / 12000-85000cps
Volume Solids
D2697
Greater than 50%
Weight Solids
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The performance requirements of ERC coatings are listed below in Table 2.
Table2: Film Physical Property Requirements for Acrylic Roof Coatings Physical Property
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Initial Tensile Strength (maximum stress)
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200 psi (1.38 MPa) 730F (230C), minimum
Final Percent Elongation (break) after accelerated weathering for 1000 Hr.
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100% @730F (230C), minimum
Permeance
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50 perms (17.2x1010Kg/s•M2•Pa), maximum
Water Swelling
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20% (Mass), maximum
Accelerated Weathering, 1000 Hrs.
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No cracking or checking
Adhesion
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2.0 pli (350 N/m) wet, minimum
Fungi Resistance
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Zero rating
Tear Resistance
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Fig. 1 ERC performance requirements are different from the normal paints as it is applied over the horizontal substrate rather than vertical wall. ERC is thicker and formulated with special performance polymers to provide better protection against harsh conditions as shown in fig. 1 and extend service life of the roof. Key performance requirements for ERC igh elongation while maintaining good tensile strength n H n E xcellent UV resistance for long term durability n E xcellent adhesion in dry and wet conditions n E xcellent long-term dirt pickup resistance n E xcellent water resistance properties In order to select the right acrylic roof coatings that will meet the above performance requirements, ASTM has designed a code (ASTM D-6083) which defines the performance requirements for acrylic based roof coatings. D-6083 provides guidelines for ERC selection to all the stakeholders including manufacturers, architects, builders, contractors, house owners. This standard has been adopted globally and serves as a benchmark in the in the industry.
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Dow Chemical has been pioneer in ERC and has been serving the industry for more than 35 years. Dow Chemical also has a complete product portfolio to help customers meet or exceed the ASTM requirements.
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cover story GREEN BUILDINGS
& Sustainable Construction A green building is one which uses less water, improves energy efficiency, conserves natural resources, generates less waste and provides healthier spaces for occupants, as compared to a conventional building.
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oday, India is witnessing tremendous growth in infrastructural development. The construction industry in India is one of the largest economic activities. The energy, water and materials demand for buildings has been growing enormously over the years and the need has arisen to address the minimisation of natural resources for the buildings construction and their associated impact on environment. In this regard, green buildings can play a catalytic role in addressing environmental issues and concerns. “A green building is one which uses less water, improves energy efficiency, conserves natural resources, generates less waste and provides healthier spaces for occupants, as compared to a conventional building.â€? Lower operational costs are experienced in energy and water consumption. It is estimated that energy savings of 40 to 50% are possible and costs of water can go down by 20 to 30% vis-Ă -vis the conventional buildings. Green buildings also have the potential to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions. For example a platinum or gold rated building can lower emissions by 12,000 to 15,000 tons for every million Sq.ft. of builtup area. Additional benefits include excellent day lighting which comes through the use of high performance glass which allows light while reflecting the heat and enhanced indoor air quality which are known to improve the health and productivity of occupants.
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The vision of the Council is to enable ‘sustainable built environment for all and facilitate India to be one of the global leaders in sustainable built environment by 2025. CII-Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre, Hyderabad, India’s First Platinum Rated Green Building
Indian Green Building Council Spearheading the green building movement in India is Indian Green Building Council (IGBC), part of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), since 2001. The Council is represented by all stakeholders of Indian construction industry comprising of Government, corporate, nodal agencies, architects, designers, institutions, builders & developers, product manufacturers, suppliers, facility managers, etc. The vision of the Council is to enable ‘sustainable built environment for all and facilitate India to be one of the global leaders in sustainable built environment by 2025.
Green Building movement in India Green Building movement in India was triggered off when CII-Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre building in Hyderabad was awarded with the first and the prestigious Platinum rated green building rating in India. Since then, Green Building movement in India has gained tremendous impetus over the years.
3 Billion Sq.ft of registered green building footprint : 2nd largest in the world With a modest beginning of 20,000 sq.ft. green builtup area in the country in the year 2003, today (as on October 2015) over 3,350 IGBC registered green building projects, amounting to over 3.12 Billion Sq.ft of footprint are going the greener way in the country, making India the second country in the world with largest green building footprint. IGBC aspires to facilitate 10 Billion Sq.ft of registered green building footprint by 2022 (75th year of Independent India).
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cover story GREEN BUILDINGS
IGBC Green Building Rating Systems Green Building Rating System brings together a host of sustainable practices and solutions to reduce the environmental impacts. Green building design provides an integrated approach considering life cycle impacts of the resources used. All the rating systems are based on the five elements of the nature (Panchabhutas) and are a perfect blend of ancient architectural practices and modern technological innovations. Today, Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) has fully indigenized all the following
IGBC Green Building Rating System essentially promotes the following key parameters (not limited to) Conservation of natural resources Enhanced energy efficiency by design
10 green building rating systems and is well poised to develop world class green building standards & practices. 1. IGBC Green Homes 2. IGBC Green New Buildings 3. IGBC Green Schools 4. IGBC Green Existing Buildings 5. IGBC Green Factory Buildings 6. IGBC Green Townships 7. IGBC Green Mass Rapid Transit System 8. IGBC Green Landscape 9. IGBC Green Special Economic Zone (SEZ) 10. IGBC Green Interiors
Substantial reduction in water consumption Enhanced occupant comfort levels Increased productivity of occupants Extensive & innovative usage of renewable energy sources
Various types of buildings going Green Today, various of buildings, all over the country are going the Green way. Buildings include- Airports, Banks, Colleges, Convention Centres, Factories, Government buildings, Hospitals, Hotels, Institutions, Metro Rails, Malls, IT Parks, Offices, Residential, Schools, SEZs, Townships
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Use eco-friendly building materials and try to source materials that are locally manufactured (within 400 km) from project site Illustrative Green Building Features Building Design
Orient building to allow optimum sunlight and ventilation
Envelope
High performance walls, roofs o fly ash bricks for walls, over deck insulation, etc.,
Glass
High performance glass â&#x20AC;&#x201C; double glazed units, Low e Glass
Appliances
BEE star rated equipment and appliances o air conditioners, refrigerators, Geysers, etc.,
Lighting Systems
Energy efficient lamps and luminaries o T5, CFL, LED, High frequency electronic ballast etc.,
Renewable energy sources
Solar photovoltaic, solar water heaters, biogas etc.,
Energy Monitoring
Energy meters & sub meters to measure, monitor & sustain building performance
Water Fixtures
Use ultra low & low flow & flush water fixtures o dual flush systems, (high flush 4 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 6 LPF / low flush 1.5 - 2 LPF), water less urinals etc.,
Water Management
l Provide rain water harvesting / storage structures l Treat 100% of waste water onsite l Use water meters to monitor the consumption of treated grey water, irrigation water, rainwater reuse, domestic hot water etc.,
Sourcing of Building Materials
Use eco-friendly building materials and try to source materials that are locally manufactured (within 400 km) from project site
Certified Wood
Use wood certified by local forestry or rapidly renewable materials (plantations which can completely replenish with in 10 years) for all wooden products & furniture
Sustainable Site measures
l Retain & reuse fertile top soil during construction for landscaping, post-occupancy l Maximise the vegetated open space in the building
Transportation
Use alternate fuel vehicles such as electric cars for local conveyance and encourage car/ van pooling and public transport
Landscaping
l Reuse treated waste water for landscaping l Use drought tolerant and native species for landscape to reduce irrigation requirement
Irrigation efficiency
Use drip and sprinkler irrigation systems for enhanced water efficiency
Interior Finishing Materials
Use NO or low VOC (Volatile Organic Compound) materials such as paints, adhesives, sealants, coatings etc
Optimise ventilation & day lighting
l Design openings to enhance cross ventilation l Ensure maximum daylight into all occupied spaces
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Design interior layouts which would provide a better connectivity to the occupants with the external world
The above listed green building features are just illustrative and NOT exhaustive.
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cover story GREEN BUILDINGS IGBC foresees that the next 10-20 years will be the decade of integrated sustainable built environment.
Green buildings make good business sense The reason for this significant progress is the fact the green buildings makes good business sense. Today, the incremental cost of a commercial green building has come down to 3 to 5 %. The additional costs gets paid back in about 2 to 3 years with substantial reduction in operational costs. This important proposition is encouraging stakeholders go the Green way.
Conclusion IGBC foresees that the next 10-20 years will be the decade of integrated sustainable built environment. This presents an excellent opportunity to design all urban habitats as green from day one and influence the way of life of people who live in such cities. India is well poised to develop more of innovative and futuristic materials and technologies which are not only eco-sensitive and energy efficient but will significantly address the fast depleting resources and play a catalytic role in preserving and protecting Planet Earth.
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Market transformation The green building movement has enabled a wonderful market transformation in the country. In 2003, there were very few products and employment opportunities in this sector. However with the spread of the green building movement across the country, the sector has witnessed tremendous growth opportunities. Today, many new products are being introduced and many new employment opportunities are being generated. Technologies and materials like -waterless urinals, CO2 sensors, VOC paints & coatings, high performance glass, wall & roof insulation, High CoP chillers, wind towers, etc., are today becoming widely accepted. It is estimated that by the year 2025, market potential for green building products & technologies will be about USD 300 Billion. There is a great opportunity for those involved in design and construction.
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Green energy is important to India, as it is to the rest of the world. Infact in India, we have an advantage as our traditional systems of living are inherently green Natasha Iype Director, GoodEarth How do you motivate your client for green energy, even it is expensive? Green Energy is expensive only in some scenarios- One is if we are attempting to use newer expensive technologies to implement energy efficiency. In this case, we would strongly question the need to use these technologies and most energy efficient solutions can be found in better architectural design and planning, and common-sense solutions are far more sustainable. We would propagate those. Secondly- if one is trying to implement green solutions to individual homes, they cost much more than if they are implemented in communities or groups, as the initial investment and running costs become much lower. In our communities, at Good Earth in Bangalore, where we build residential communities, we have integrated rainwater harvesting, an environment friendly sewage treatment plant, which recycles the waste water to the toilet flushes and excess is used in irrigation of the gardens. This has brought down the total consumption of water by 30%. which would not have been possible to implement at an individual house level. Clients are motivated to spend on Green energy solutions, if they are reasonable, made transparent and the benefits to the client and the earth convincing enough.
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Clients are motivated to spend on Green energy solutions, if they are reasonable, made transparent and the benefits to the client and the earth convincing enough.
Why green energy is important for India and how you can do an energy audit? Green energy is important to India, as it is to the rest of the world. Infact in India, we have an advantage as our traditional systems of living are inherently green. We need not ape the western model of â&#x20AC;&#x153;greenâ&#x20AC;? and auditing- as if we follow living conservatively and reduce waste in our lifestyles, we will save energy. Metering the use of water and electricity is one way of creating audits. Awareness of excessive consumption leading to a larger carbon footprint is the main way to reduce the consumption of energy.
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We are committed to this cause and going forward all our projects will adhere to the green building norms KEDAR JOSHI
CMO, Ahuja Constructions
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he concept of green building / environmentally friendly structures has been increasingly gaining prominence across the Indian Real Estate industry over the past few years. Within Ahuja Constructions we are committed to this cause and going forward all our projects will adhere to the green building norms. Green building refers to the incorporation of environment friendly and resource efficient processes at each stage of construction, right from the site selection and designing to construction, operation followed by maintenance, renovation or even demolition. The endeavour is to seek minimum possible impact on environment. Though Green Building concept is more prevalent among residential segment in the super-luxury projects, also it can be seen in mid and affordable segments. The concept is also gaining presence in the commercial as well as
hospitality sector, with a number of projects coming up all across India. At Ahuja Constructions, we are also adopting these practices among our ongoing/ upcoming projects. Our flagship project Ahuja Towers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Worli has been Pre-certified with a Gold Rating from LEED (India) while Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Amor Oshiwara& our upcoming project in Malad have been pre-certified with a Silver Rating from IGBC Green Homes Sustainable development is all about limiting the destruction of natural resources and consumption of its gifts, and ensuring that we keep the planet green and alive. Real estate construction and operations share a symbiotic relationship with the environment, and realtors have begun to understand the importance of sustainable development. They have realized that if they do not pay heed to environmental considerations, it could prove detrimental in the future.
Green Building concept is more prevalent among residential segment in the super-luxury projects, also it can be seen in mid and affordable segments. The concept is also gaining presence in the commercial as well as hospitality sector, with a number of projects coming up all across India.
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The need is to create more awareness about the long term benefits of green building, like the reduction in energy consumption, cleaner environment, and natural day light
David Walker
Managing Director, SARE Homes
How do you motivate your client for green energy, even it is expensive?
resource efficiency. Over the conventional homes, green homes can have upto 3040% energy savings and water savings to an extent of 20-30%. Most of the electricity Eco-friendly design homes or green SARE Homes has needs in green homes are met by solar buildings are not new for the Indian panels, and there is also a provision of consumers; this aspect is evident at our also undertaken historical monuments. However, with efforts to reduce its giving unused electricity to the grid, all these factors are contributing to the target the utilization of latest technology and carbon footprint as of government. In addition, occupants of techniques, the concept is presently a developer and lend green buildings enjoy healthier indoor entering the mainstream of construction business, and picking up its prominence its mite in mitigating environments with proper ventilation and day lighting. among the buyers. Since, consumers are the devastating SARE designs and develops its projects getting more environment conscious; to promote energy efficiency and green impact of global mechanism for waste water management, solar panels are some of the aspects which warming and climate building concepts proposed by Indian Green Building Council (IGBC). We they are looking forward. However, as of change. provide rain water harvesting, waste now, percentage of these buyers is very water management, sewage treatment small, but there is optimism for expanding plants; VRV air conditioning, solar heating energy-efficient construction in India. The of water which helps in saving energy and increasing need is to create more awareness about the long term efficiency. There are Sky decks on our rooftops which benefits of green building, like the reduction in energy consumption, cleaner environment, and natural day light. keep the buildings cool in addition to maximization of Consumers today need to understand the importance of usable space. Our projects are well ventilated with three going green which has become an absolute necessity in side open apartments and well planned landscaped parks with provision for Solar lighting for street lights in our light of environmental concerns. townships. Both these techniques have helped us make Why green energy is important for India optimum use of natural resources and save up to 50% on costing. This has also created an impact on our future and how you can do an energy audit? The construction sector accounts for at least a third of developments and made our team and customers more all energy related CO2 emissions worldwide. An adoption responsible towards the environment at large. SARE Homes has also undertaken efforts to reduce of green buildings enhances the efficiency with which its carbon footprint as a developer and lend its mite in buildings use energy, water, and lessens its dependence on mitigating the devastating impact of global warming and fossil fuels and minimize its overall negative environment impact. With the current agenda of government to provide climate change. We have measured our carbon footprint 24X7 power for all and reducing the carbon emissions, for the last two financial years using methodology based green buildings will play a critical role in enhancing the on the GHG Protocol.
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green buildings To motivate builders to ‘go-green’, presenting case studies that demonstrate the benefits of green buildings in terms of energy conservation, which in turn reduces the operating expenses ultimately increasing the Net Operating Income
Rohan Bulchandani Co-Founder & President, REMI
How do you motivate your client for green Why green energy is important for India and energy, even it is expensive? how you can do an energy audit? In India, while there have been some green buildings constructed over the last few years, the concept of green buildings is still at a nascent stage as compared to other more developed and environmentally conscious economies. A number of developers/building owners continue to demonstrate reluctance towards constructing green buildings due to the high associated building and maintenance costs. Also, there continues to be a limited understanding of the long-term benefits of green buildings at both an ecological level and for the end purchaser of the property. To motivate builders to ‘go-green’, presenting case studies that demonstrate the benefits of green buildings in terms of energy conservation, which in turn reduces the operating expenses ultimately increasing the Net Operating Income. Developers are also made aware of the premium property valuation affixed to green buildings and the high brand appeal that green buildings typically command. This in turn contributes significantly during the branding and marketing stages of developments to create a more premium brand value to the developer, as well as work as a key differentiator to occupy consumer mindshare. The following benefits can be highlighted to builders to motivate them to go-green: • Energy Saving: 20-30% • Water Saving: 30-50% • Enhanced air quality • Excellent day lighting • Health and wellbeing of the occupants • Conservation of the scarce national resources • Improves life of the building and enhances its resale value •G reat branding and marketing tool. For example, an increasing number of MNCs are looking for commercial premises in Green Buildings
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India is the second most populated country in the world. With government initiatives such as the smart city initiative, an increase in affordable housing units and a concerted push towards infrastructure development across the country, the conservation of natural resources becomes critical during the development phase. This can be achieved by greater regulatory support in favour of promoting environmentally friendly development and a stronger focus on developing green buildings. The lifecycle of a development from demolition to construction to operation consumes a number of key resources such as energy, water, raw materials, among others. Economical resource consumption can be achieved by following best practice processes and undertaking key initiatives during the development phase. An energy check helps owners determine where their property is losing energy and consequently money. As a result, reactive measures can take place to make the property more energy, and cost, efficient. An energy audit is the first step towards assessing the energy consumption of the property and evaluating the steps required to make the property more energy efficient. There are various ways to conduct an energy audit. Energy management softwares are widely used in India that help count the number of BTUs (British Thermal Unit) used in each premise. Also, to measure the water usage, there are meters installed to check the usage patterns with stipulated consumption thresholds that help highlight any excessive usage and identify key areas that are resulting in the consumption of resources. The implementation of these initiatives/processes that help track and manage resource consumption in projects, will be important to ensure efficiency in the utilisation of natural resources during the development phase.
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green buildings
manufacturer
expert views
When you think about safe living and working environments, clearly the impact of products on the environment is a critical area Peeyush Gupta UL
How do you motivate your client/ customers to opt for green energy, even if it is expensive?
to businesses, their stakeholders, investors, and partners need to show that they are responding to the Rising awareness demands of environmental protection. UL’s Environmental Responsibility When you think about safe living and on sustainability, Audit employs a set of step-by-step working environments, clearly the impact of products on the environment is a critical renewable energy environmental management tools that help companies identify opportunities for area. Of late we saw more and more of and increased improvement in raw material processing, our clients’ concerned about hazardous efficiency, there is manufacturing, and service facilities materials that could potentially be used UL’s Environmental Responsibility in their products. Today’s consumer is a great demand on Audit covers the following scope: becoming more aware of the need for • Air, water and wastewater monitoring energy efficiency cleaner and greener products. Harmful • Wastewater discharge and waste environmental impact of products and elements in India. disposal processes has caused irreparable brand • Pollution prevention damage and financial loss to many Global • Chemical and other hazardous materials companies. management This then led tothe creation of UL • Land use and biodiversity Environment, an offshoot of UL that focuses on certifying • Emergency and accident response preparedness the environmental benefits of green products. We advance the recognition of sustainable products and drive • Training breadth measurements and continuous purchaser clarity by bringing trusted transparency to the • Performance improvement programs green marketplace. We reinforce credibility of sustainable Key insights from UL audits help businesses identify product claims through our robust certification, validation and testing services, helping our customers support their if they and their partners have sufficient processes and sustainability stories in ways that are meaningful toand systems in place to manage environmental responsibility. differentiating fortheir organizations and their target UL offers an entire range of services to the power sector that includes testing and certification of photovoltaic markets. equipments, low voltage switchgears, wind turbines, Why green energy is important for India wind farms, energy efficiency testing for LED and HVAC and what kind of energy audits is done by equipments. Our flexible component testing options can help determine which components optimize the energy your company? With rising awareness on sustainability, renewable efficiency of a product. UL tests products to a broad range energy and increased efficiency, there is a great demand of energy efficiency standards, including the following: on energy efficiency elements in India. As environmental NRCan, CEC, ENERGY STAR®, DOE, CRRC, CONUEE, ErP, and sustainability initiatives become more important and MEPS.
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green buildings Green buildings are designed in such a they use maximum natural resources. Like natural lighting, reuse of waste water, re use of rain water, use of solar energy and many more ways
builder
expert views
Sandeep Ahuja CEO, Richa Realtors
How do you motivate your client for green energy, even it is expensive?
Why green energy is important for India and how you can do an energy audit?
It is a like a urban myth according to which Green Buildings are supposed to cost a nightmare. But matter of fact is, they are just reasonably priced. But best part is green will save you lot more money then regular construction. Green buildings are designed in such a they use maximum natural resources. Like natural lighting, reuse of waste water, re use of rain water, use of solar energy and many more ways. Hence eventually cost of living, which comprises of electricity bills, water bills are considerably reduced. As per a study of University of California, people who opted for living in green homes ended up saving 20% more than people who opted for regular properties. Due for their sustainability, green homes have higher market value in long run. When these features are understood by clients, convincing them to opt for green homes becomes less difficult.
â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Green buildingsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; are those buildings constructed using raw material and methods that are environment-friendly and resourceefficient and these green buildings are future of real estate. With alarming increase in pollution levels, green buildings are a positive initiative taken by mankind towards sustainable development. Especially in country like India which is home to worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1/6th population, strain on land for housing is beyond definition. We are facing pressure on land not only for housing but also for industries, agriculture earnest while trying to maintain land for wildlife. Green buildings should be way of life throughout the country and for that property tax concession of 5% can be given to projects certified as green buildings by Indian Green Building Council (IGBC). Even internationally similar trends are observed all over world. National Productivity Council of India does energy audits. In energy audits, energy consumption of an organisation is studied.
Green buildings should be way of life throughout the country and for that property tax concession of 5% can be given to projects certified as green buildings by Indian Green Building Council (IGBC). Even internationally similar trends are observed all over world.
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green buildings Life will become more difficult. Besides the increasing population pressure,it will succumb to find alternative and renewable sources of energy. In effect, modernization alienates us spatially Harjith. D. Bubber M.D & C.E.O, Rivali Park
How do you motivate your client for green energy, even it is expensive? As per the contemporary scenario of the depletion of limited resources, it is highly desideratum to preserve and efficiently use energy on a renewable way for posterity. Despite past and present administration’s hope that the transition from a society dependent on limited resources to a world of controlled population growth, sustainable economies and alternative green energies will be forthcoming, the vision seems a bit optimistic. This shift will take strong political and emotional fortitude and decades to accomplish. The transition is not only necessary for the planet’s ecological survival; it’s critical to the health and well being of every human. With more and more developing countries wanting to offer their growing populations the privilege and opportunity to preserve limited resources for posterity, which in turnwill also contribute to lessening burden on non-renewable resources in an overpopulated planet.In the near future the world’s economic dependence on nonrenewable energy will continue to grow, and it won’t last forever. Life will become more difficult. Besides the increasing population pressure,it willsuccumb to find alternative and renewable sources of energy. In effect, modernization alienates
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us spatially. The citizens will suffer alienation from collective ecological blindness in times to come that reduces their collective sense of ‘connectedness’ to the ecosystems that sustain them.”
Why green energy is important for India and how you can do an energy audit? Regardless of whether the process will be easy or extremely difficult, sooner or later we are all going to have to face some major changes to our current way of life. It is not that we lack the knowledge of how to adopt sustainable measures. We are simply resisting such constraints, as many would call them, which might threaten the luxuries in life that we have grown so accustomed to.The challenge is to help developing countries like India to leapfrog to a more decentralized, efficient, renewables-based system. The alternative to this is following the coal or oil-based path; suffering from price volatility, import dependence, mounting pollution and health problems, and expensive retrofits. Ultimately, the question is not when will the global economy switch from burning environment-damaging and limited petroleum products to using more earthfriendly alternative energies, but how will industry and humanity handle the transition.
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fly ash
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green buildings Concrete produced from Fly ash and Blast furnace slag requires less water compared to traditional concretes made with pure cement and helps to conserve water Rahul Akkara JSW
How much recycled content (post industrial and post consumer) does the product contain? In recent years, the use of fly ash and Blast furnace slag to replace Portland cement has been increasing as sustainability has grown. Using fly ash /GGBS in brick manufacturing, blended cements and as mineral admixtures in concrete are related steps in the evolution of using replacement materials. The replacement percentage of these materials may range between 35 to 70 depending on products manufactured using these industrial wastes for different end uses/ applications.
The use of fly ash and Blast furnace slag to replace Is the disposal of the product after its useful life harmful to the Portland cement has environment? Will it break down safely in a landfill or can it be recycled. The investigations indicate that fly ash / Slag are non-hazardous materials, even though some been increasing as of the constituents of fly ash may be considered harmful.. Many materials contain compounds sustainability has that when considered individually may be harmful, but when combined and manufactured into a building material are considered non-hazardous. The study further goes on to state that once the grown. fly ash/Slag are used in concrete bricks , the particles are solidified and becomes inert.
Does the product use water and energy efficiently or reduce the amount needed? Does the product generate energy? Since both fly ash and GGBS are processed wastes from thermal plants and steel industry, lot of electrical and thermal energy can be saved and no energy cost for blasting and mining operations. Concrete produced from Fly ash and Blast furnace slag requires less water compared to traditional concretes made with pure cement and helps to conserve water. Portland Pozzolana (Fly ash) cement, Portland slag (slag) cement are lighter coloured with higher reflectivity. Buildings and pavements that are lighter in colour reflect more light and thus help minimize the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;heat islandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; effect which in turn reduces the energy needed for cooling. Thus by using these industrial by products, the specific Energy and Water consumption can drastically be reduced.
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Going green is the new buzz word of urban life. Developers, Builders, property owners, realtors, bankers, insurers, are rigorously using ‘Green Buildings’ in the context of their respective professions Shabbir H Kanchwala Senior Vice President, K Raheja Corp
What can be done to spread awareness about green homes for a safer, cleaner future?
With increased awareness even amongst the public, there is a conscious preference made for green buildings which consume less energy and water.
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Going green is the new buzz word of urban life. Developers, Builders, property owners, realtors, bankers, insurers, are rigorously using ‘Green Buildings’ in the context of their respective professions. There is a growing awareness on the resource crunch that the country is faced with, and is increasingly demanding selfsustaining efficient developments that cost less to operate. Green buildings make good business sense as any investment made in green buildings is paid back within 3-4 years. Even in commercial buildings, there is a growing demand amongst the multinational clients like Capgemini, HSBC, WNS, Accenture, Novartis understands & request for LEED rated Green commercial office spaces. On being as a responsible developer, K. Raheja Corp. has ‘Green Vision’ that all their commercial as well as residential project on PAN India basis will be LEED & IGBC “Green Certified”. With increased awareness even amongst the public, there is a conscious preference made for green buildings which consume less energy and water. Increasing awareness and optimal utilization of green developments to end users of buildings, following are some of initiatives taken by K. Raheja Corp under Green Rating programmes: 1. Training programmes imparted to the
green building core team i.e. Architects, Engineers & especially Sales team to enable them to communicate appropriate and relevant information along with benefits to the property aspirants 2. Detailed guidelines given to tenants mentioning the Green features of the project, along with Do’s and Dont’s 3. On location green education by putting up signage’s explaining the various Green measures 4. Conducting Green tours of visitors coming to the certified buildings With the beginning of Green buildings in India by Indian Green Building Council, K. Raheja Corp is one of first developers to have entered a MOU with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) & Indian Green Building Council for the implementation of green building measures for all commercial projects across PAN India Basis. K. Raheja Corp.is a founding member of IGBC. Initiatives by Indian Green Building Council for awareness of Green Buildings: 1. Inaugurated the Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata, and Delhi chapters - Mr. Ravi Raheja, Director, K. Raheja Corp is the Chairman of the Mumbai Chapter of IGBC 2. The genesis of the Student Chapter: To create awareness of green buildings among school children, conducting events like ‘Green Your School Contest’ across India 3. Advanced training programmes on green buildings conducted regularly for
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professionals 4. Awareness lectures in architecture and engineering colleges and the initiation of the Greenest Design Competitions 5. Highlighting programmes and achievements through the media
Why green energy is important for India and how you can do an energy audit? India is witnessing tremendous growth in infrastructure and construction development. The construction industry in India is one of the largest economic activities and is growing rapidly. The rapid growth is causing several challenges in preserving the environment – especially when it comes to energy and water – two of the most essential priorities for countries like India. The environmental impact of the building industry is significant. Buildings annually consume more than 20% of the electricity used in India and intensity of energy usage in some sectors is a matter of concern. In such a scenario efficient use of energy
resources and their conservation assume tremendous significance and are essential for shortening of careless consumption and sustainable development. Knowing the fact that efficient use of energy and its conservation is the least-cost option to meet the increasing energy demand, going green is the most sensible option for the industry. Energy Audits:- An energy audit, or survey, is a systematic review of how energy is used within an establishment. It includes a physical inspection of buildings and equipment, ranging from a simple visual inspection to a fully instrumented study, and a report on recommended energy and cost saving opportunities. To conduct an energy audit, it is required to review the organisation’s/ homes current energy usage and identify how much energy used, and when and where it has been used. Reviewing the energy bills can help to build a full picture of energy use. Once a good understanding of the current energy usage, it is possible to identify energy saving opportunities and define practical ‘next steps’.
The rapid growth is causing several challenges in preserving the environment – especially when it comes to energy and water – two of the most essential priorities for countries like India.
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Across residential and commercial buildings, builders are offering customers the opportunity to explore a more ecofriendly way of life; a life that’s smart, efficient and above all, sustainable. Vikram Khanna
The extensive use of innovative glass products in today’s buildings has helped reduce the need for artificial lighting and thereby minimised energy consumption.
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or several decades, architects and builders around the world have explored ways and means to design the ‘nearly-Zero Energy’ building. Today, enabled by modern technology and innovative building materials, that dream is a reality. Across residential and commercial buildings, builders are offering customers the opportunity to explore a more eco-friendly way of life; a life that’s smart, efficient and above all, sustainable. In recent times, the idea of green buildings has gained momentum. Builders, developers and architects are increasingly looking to make use of green materials like glass to add a new dimension to their buildings. Awareness of environmental impact of increased construction activity has recently been on the agenda of Governmental entities and Environment Ministry. It is widely expected that Building code changes are in pipeline in order to adhere to these concerns. Construction houses are striving to obtain sustainability certifications, to ensure a better quality of life for residents and help conserve the environment.
India makes the green move 2001
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1 green building
516 green buildings
0 sq.ft. area classified green 330 Million sq.ft. area classified green No energy saving
40-50% energy saving
0 accredited professionals
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In little more than a decade, India has emerged as one of the leading countries in the adoption of Green Building norms.
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Building green with glass The extensive use of innovative glass products in today’s buildings has helped reduce the need for artificial lighting and thereby minimised energy consumption. Green buildings admittedly cost more to build but the operational cost is substantially reduced. This makes the cost of ownership of a green building substantially less than conventional spaces. Various types of glazing solutions – both internal as well as external – have not only made our spaces more efficient but also unlocked new possibilities in design and aesthetics. Glass – a versatile, aesthetic and green building material [Graphical representation] • Natural day-lighting • Recyclable, non-toxic and green material • Improves energy efficiency • Enables innovative designs • Superior sound insulation • Better thermal control • Prevents accumulation of dust and dirt • Lowers maintenance costs Parameters of glass that make it an effective green building material: • Solar Factor / Solar Heat Gain Co-efficient (SHGC) • U-Value • Relative Heat Gain • Visual Comfort • Safety • Sound Insulation
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Green solutions from Asahi India Glass Limited As India’s leading integrated glass company, AIS has been at the forefront of this move towards an eco-friendly future. It has pioneered innovations in glass processing technology to develop products that feature the best ‘green’ parameters. AIS manufactures both single-glazed and double-glazed products allowing architects greater choice and the ability to explore newer possibilities. These solutions enhance the aesthetics and efficiency of commercial and residential spaces, and present builders with viable, attractive and economical alternative to traditional building materials. Energy Efficient Glass ranges from AIS, under the brand name of “Ecosense” provides the benefit reducing the heat gain in buildings due to its excellent energy saving properties without compromising on the
natural light coming inside the building or the brilliant aesthetics that add value to the façade. And in winter, they ensure solar gain. So that no matter what the season, people inside stay comfortable at all times. Using energy-efficient glass also helps in ensuring that the interiors – and the occupants of the home – feel more comfortable. Ecosense comes in three ranges – Enhance (Solar Control), Exceed (Solar Control Low-E) and Essence (Low-E) high performance Glasses. Ideal for solar and thermal insulating parameters, Ecosense combines aesthetics with environmental sensibility and conforms to all International and National Green Standards, making it the natural choice as a Green Building solution. Ecosense performance parameters like Visual Light Transmission, Solar Factor, U-Value and Internal Reflection make buildings more efficient and ecologically viable.
AIS has been at the forefront of this move towards an eco-friendly future. It has pioneered innovations in glass processing technology to develop products that feature the best ‘green’ parameters.
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Raina Industries has launched a range of products based on innovative technologies in the construction sector Dr. Mohit Raina Raina Industries Indian green energy industry process incredible power to improve the overall standard of living in the country, please brief us about recent initiatives undertaken by Raina Industries in energy savings space? Raina Industries is a German based company with manufacturing operations in India and looks at energy savingholistically. The responsibility of a citizen of the country doesn’t involve only saving energy by some easy means such as replacing CFL with LED Bulbs. If significant change with energy saving has to be achieved, the idealogy and the perception has to go beyond conventional means and focus has to be laid into technologies and products which help save energy in its entirety. Keeping this in mind Raina Industries has launched a range of products based on innovative technologies in the construction sector. CEMENT Industry – A major energy consumer in the building industry. Cement is an important construction ingredient produced in virtually all countries. Concrete is the second most consumed substance on Earth after water. On average, each year, three tons of concrete are consumed by every person on the planet. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a byproduct of a chemical conversion process used in the production of clinker, a component of
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cement, in which limestone (CaCO3) is converted to lime (CaO). CO2 is also emitted during cement production by fossil fuel combustion and is accounted for elsewhere. The cement industry is hence one of the major contributors to the generation of CO2.
Figure 2: Contribution of Cement Industry in the End-use energy consumption Cement manufacturing is highly energy – and – emissions intensive because of the extreme heat required to produce it (Figure 1). Producing a ton of cement requires 4.7 million BTU of energy, equivalent to about 400 pounds of coal, and generates nearly a ton of CO2. Given its high emissions and critical importance to society, cement is an obvious place to look to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. About 29% of the expense is spent on energy, 27% on raw materials,
Cement is an important construction ingredient produced in virtually all countries. Concrete is the second most consumed substance on Earth after water.
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32% on labor and 12% on depreciation in a cement industry . Therefore, cement industry is characterised by intensive industry throughout its production stages and the calcination of its raw materials. Consequently significant amounts of greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions are released to the atmosphere due to burning of fossil fuel to supply energy need for cement industries . Specific thermal energy consumption in cement industries is found to be about 4 and 5 GJ/ton . Over the long term, projections show an increasing contribution from the cement industry to energy consumption as well as increasing share of total gross output of goods and services (Figure 2). Cement output is strongly tied to various types of construction. Thus the construction industry also shares the major burden of energy consumption. Every existing, new and renovated building needs to find solutions to the help reduce the consumption of cement being used. This will help in reducing the total energy consumption of a building.
Figure 2: Contribution of Cement Industry in the End-use energy consumption
Raina Industries introduces Textile and Fibre Reinforced Concrete as a solution to this problem and offers green materials. Textile Reinforced concrete(TRC) is an innovative and sustainable technology in terms of environmental, social and economic criteria and contributes to the reduction of the energy use during the whole life cycle and the improvement of the quality of the living spaces in terms of comfort and air quality. Textile Reinforced Concrete (TRC) is an innovative composite material that uses high-strength fine-grained concrete and mesh-like textile reinforcements, mainly consisting of AR glass or carbon fibres. Unlike steel, textiles are not susceptible to corrosion, thus it is possible to minimize concrete cover to only a few millimetres. Normal steel reinforced concrete requires a minimum cover of 20 mm from all directions for the steel reinforcement. As a result, slender concrete constructions can be built, meeting the needs of modern architecture with both economic and environmental advantages. Textile structures provide a suitable solution to the reinforcement within concrete matrices. These textile structures are engineered to provide high tensile requirements and act as areplacement for steel reinforcement. The textiles used involve materials such as alkali-resistant glass, carbon and Aramid. The fibres are required to have features such as small relaxation under permanent load, appropriate and constant adhesion between reinforcement and concrete, low cost of production and the possibility of processing easily on textile machinery. The fibres mentioned can be used
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Every existing, new and renovated building needs to find solutions to the help reduce the consumption of cement being used. This will help in reducing the total energy consumption of a building.
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Construction time and auxiliary building equipment is reduced because of the decrease of the dead load of the building components
green buildings in filament or twisted filament form. These filaments are a better choice because they possess only a small structural elongation maintaining higher modulus. Features that play a vital role are the applied size coatings on the filaments, the thickness of the filaments and the number of filaments. TRC is, arbitrarily, an advance version of FRC with greater durability and it can be used or apply where we think of complex shapes in concrete. It can be widely apply as lost formwork, Landscape/Urban furniture, thin faรงade walls/skin, sound barriers, partitions walls, sewage/water channels etc.
This material helps in the following ways to create an ecological impact on the society: n To reduce CO2 emissions from the building sector: TRC contributes to sustainability in construction by providing a sustainable module-based lightweight solution for building envelope. The technology is highly friendly from the environmental point of view because it has a high potential for reducing CO2 emissions. By reducing the amount of concrete (up to 80%) used in the new multilayer-panels, up to 83% of CO2 emission can be avoided. Moreover, the lower weight reduces energy consumption in transport and installation. About 5% of the yearly CO2 emissions are caused by the cement industry. n To develop new-to-building and refurbishment packages at affordable cost: The elaborated industrial prefabricated new-to-building and refurbishment packages suited for a number of applications will make available highly effective and reliable solutions. Advanced joining techniques for aesthetics, easy installation, simple assembly in new buildings and retrofitting improve on-site construction on issues as thermal-bridges and air tightness. In addition, construction time and auxiliary building equipment is reduced because of the decrease of the dead load of the building components. n To improve energy efficiency and quality of the indoor environment: Using the novel TRC panels, the energy efficiency of buildings, comfort and indoor quality conditions will improve.
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Do you think the LEED and GRIHA ratings are compatible with the way in which Indian architects design buildings? These energy ratings are compatible with the building ways however their application and implication are yet to be thoroughly explored by both the building and construction industry as well as regulatory bodies.
In your experience, how much more does greening a building cost (in percentage) and what is the payback period? Constructing the building with Green Materials costs about 15-20% more than
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Constructing the building with Green Materials costs about 1520% more than conventional building materials. This costs comparison can be achieved if the life time costs of both conventional as well as green building materials is compared.
green buildings conventional building materials. This costs comparison can be achieved if the life time costs of both conventional as well as green building materials is compared. Benefits from such new materials can be reaped after about 5-8 years. This is due to the fact that the greener materials require lesser maintenance and after end of life these materials can be easily disposed as compared to conventional materials.
What can be done to spread awareness about green homes for a safer, cleaner future? In order to create awareness about this new technology, the first set was the implementation and manufacture of the products in India. Raina Industries Private Limited influenced by the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Make in Indiaâ&#x20AC;? vision of Hon. Prime Minister Shri. NarendraModi started manufacture of this material in India. As an additional step Raina Industries is starting to implement this technology at grass root levels by building Toilets for the Swaach Bharat Mission using this technology. Further on a number of seminars and workshops are also carried out with young civil engineers to inform them about the positive aspects of the material. In order to create a higher impact roadshows and pilot projects have to be done in the Indian concept, to gain confidence of the Indian Building Industry, which is rather conservative with regards to application of new materials. To support this also building codes need to be worked out with regulatory bodies to implement these technologies.
What is the response of real-estate How much recycled content (post developers to adopting green industrial and post consumer) does building techniques and sustainable the product contain? practices? The product majorly contains no steel and The real-estate developers belong to two categories of people. On one hand there exist experts and stalwarts who are visionary and want to implement cutting edge greener technologies. However on the other hand the purchase/ procurement or the project manager cut costs in order to reduce project costs. This inevitably forces a green material out of the project even if was initially considered by the visionary expert. Considerable amount of education and training is required for the implementers to understand the greener materials and find ways and means to prioritize technologies which have a long-lasting impact on the environment.
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less amount of cement and can be easily recycled. However current research is also looking at a 2nd generation use of these materials in building practices.
Is the disposal of the product after its useful life harmful to the environment? Will it break down safely in a landfill or can it be recycled The material after its life time is absolutely not harmful to the environment. It can be broken down safely as it majorly consists of very fine grade concrete and can be reused. Current research is also looking at a 2nd generation use of these materials in building practices.
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STAAD.Pro Saves USD 400,000 on Hamon Air-cooling Island Design Hamon Thermal (Tianjin) Optimizes Steel Structure for Xinjiang Jinhui Power Plant Using Single STAAD.Pro Model
Project Summary Organization: Hamon Thermal (Tianjin) Co. Ltd. Solution: Structural Engineering Location: Baicheng County, Xinjiang, China Project Objective: • Design steel structure for aircooling island at Xinjiang Jinhui Power Plant. • Calculate construction loads and internal forces on steel structure. • Optimize design and improve safety and reliability of steel structure. Products used: STAAD.Pro
Applying Proven Technology Hamon Thermal (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. is part of the Hamon Group, an international engineering and contracting company that is a leader in the specialized markets for cooling systems, process heat exchangers, air quality systems, chimneys, and heat recovery steam generators and waste heat boilers. Xinjiang Jinhui Zhaofeng Energy Co. Ltd. retained Hamon to design the CNY 45 million steel structure for the air-cooling island at the CNY 3 billion Xinjiang Jinhui Power Plant located in the Baicheng Heavy Chemical Industrial Park in Baicheng County, Xinjiang, China. The air-cooling island will cool off steam produced by the turbines in 2x300 megawatt generator sets. Modeling the design of the steel structure took about 25 percent less time using STAAD.Pro®, Bentley’s 3D structural analysis and design engineering software. STAAD.Pro enabled Hamon to optimize the design and decrease steel consumption from 3,500 tons to 3,100 tons. This represented a savings of CNY 2.5 million.
Multiple Load Calculations Air-cooling islands use air as the medium for cooling off steam turbines. The designers of the Jinhui power plant
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specified a mechanical ventilation direct air-cooled condenser, which is a mature technology developed by Hamon Group. The technology includes environmental protection, energy saving, and water conservation features, and has been widely used in coal-fired power plants in China and around the world. For this project, each generator set contained 30 cooling modules, 30 electric motors and fans, 360 cooling pipe bundles, and associated gear cases and pipe systems. The steel structure supporting the air-cooling system required a complex layout to accommodate the ductwork, pipes, and equipment. The steel platform itself was supported by a huge trussing system, with each generator set containing 7,000 irregularly arranged steel member bars. Construction of this massive steel structure required numerous falseworks, supporting pipe bundles, and ductwork systems. The design had to consider the construction load to ensure the safety of the structure and construction workers. The standard method for calculating loads and forces called for simplification of the structure and separation into local parts, which would not provide an accurate analysis of the whole.
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To optimize the design of the steel structure and improve its safety and reliability, the project team chose STAAD.Pro. The software allows structural engineers to analyze and design virtually any type of structure through its flexible modeling environment, advanced features, and interoperability. The team used STAAD. Pro to build a uniform model that reflected the actual load and internal forces on each member bar. The model was used to perform analyses and calculations, then seamlessly transition the basic steel structure design into the detail design phase. Collaborative design and information sharing improved the overall efficiency of the design process. STAAD.Pro enabled the design team to quickly resolve the complex modeling problems related to the air-cooling steel structure. Designers were able to input the geometry of complex or existing structures, such as octagonal beams and pipe bundles, and perform necessary computations. The accurate results met Hamon’s requirements for holistic analysis of the internal force distribution. Yang Xiaobing, Chief Engineer, Hamon Thermal (Tianjin), noted: “With STAAD.Pro, we can easily add load cases and design various load combinations. Therefore, we can fully consider construction conditions and design construction load and load combinations accordingly.”
Time and Material Savings STAAD.Pro greatly reduced the time required to define calculation parameters for the air-cooling steel structure. It also provided the flexibility to customize calculation parameters for more than 7,000 member bars. The ability to import data for collaborative design in other software applications facilitated modification of the structural model. Any modifications were easily shared among peers so
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“The Bentley solution helps us meet the unprecedented challenges that Hamon faces in aircooling programs. With this solution, we save 120 man-hours and 400 tons of steel in steel structure designs, thereby producing millions of Yuan in economic gains for Hamon.” — Yang Xiaobing, chief engineer, Hamon Thermal (Tianjin) Co. Ltd. that everyone had the updated version and no time was wasted on redundant modeling. Seamless transitioning among disciplines reduced the time for calculations from three weeks to three or four days, and the time for modeling from more than 400 manhours to about 300 man-hours. Because the design requirements for multiple load cases were considered, the designers were assured that the loads under construction conditions would be safely supported. Using the STAAD.Pro model, Hamon’s engineers were able to adjust and optimize the steel structure with confidence. As a result, steel consumption was decreased from 3,500 tons to 3,100 tons, saving more than CNY 2.5 million. The savings in time and materials helped to reaffirm Hamon’s place as a leader in the market for world-class cooling systems.
• Hamon Thermal (Tianjin) implemented mechanical ventilation direct air-cooling condenser technology developed by the Hamon Group. • The air-cooling island served 2x300 megawatt generator sets, each containing 30 cooling modules, 30 electric motors and fans, 360 cooling pipe bundles, and 7,000 steel member bars. • STAAD.Pro enabled structural engineers to perform load calculations and structural analysis within a unified model. ROI • The optimized design decreased steel consumption from 3,500 tons to 3,100 tons, saving more than CNY 2.5 million. • STAAD.Pro reduced the time for calculations from three weeks to three or four days, and the time for modeling from more than 400 man-hours to about 300 man-hours.
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Shibanee and Kamal Architects Uses STAAD.Pro to Analyze Unconventional Curved-wall Design Bentley Software Helps Overcome Design Challenges of Innovative BHAU Institute
Nurturing Innovation Project Summary Organization: Shibanee and Kamal Architects www.total-environment.com Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India Project Objective: • Provide 2,000 square meters of space for classrooms, incubation rooms, auditorium, conference halls, and staff rooms. • Save the massive tamarind tree that occupies the building site. • Blend the building with its surrounding protected heritage structure. Products used: STAAD.Pro
Shibanee and Kamal Architects, principal architects of Bangalorebased Total Environment Building Systems Pvt Ltd, designed the BHAU Institute of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Leadership (BIEL) for the College of Engineering, Pune. Located on the bank of river Mula in Maharashtra, India, the Institute is intended to nurture innovation, encourage entrepreneurship, and develop leadership. The INR 60 million building provides educational and research space within an unconventional, bi-directionally curved structure that blends in visually with the college’s 160-yearold campus. The structural engineers used Bentley’s STAAD.Pro to deliver the precise analysis and visualization that enabled the evaluation of the curved wall itself as a load-bearing element. This substantially reduced the cost of the entire project.
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ranked among the top 20 technical colleges in India. The college’s newest institute will help students cultivate entrepreneurship qualities and support them while they set up new companies. The architects kept this mission in mind as they conceived a space that would integrate physical, social, and environmental considerations for a business incubator. The building had to fit on a site bounded on three sides by existing buildings, as well as blend organically into a campus declared to be one of the protected heritage structures in India. Perhaps the single greatest challenge, however, was to preserve a mature tamarind tree, which became the nexus of the design. Shibanee and Kamal conceived a circular space built-up around the tree and spreading over a ground floor plus two floors for classrooms, incubation rooms, auditorium, conference facilities, and faculty rooms. The circular shape of the building not only preserved the mature tamarind tree but also fulfilled the requirements for good
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• Modeling and analyzing curved walls and irregularly shaped slabs as plate elements. • Accommodating a large number of revisions in a short period of time
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“When the architect turns innovative, a structural engineer cannot lag behind. So we, too, responded positively by being innovative. Our engineers have mastered the art of modeling any complicated structure in STAAD.Pro. In this building, the main challenge before us was to employ the curved walls to support the slabs, and exploit their in-plane strength to resist seismic shears effectively. We could achieve whatever architects wanted and imagined.” —Prakash Channappagoudar, senior vice president, structural design, Shibanee and Kamal Architects
circulation space for the classrooms and auditorium. A bridge connecting the two ends of the building on either side of the tree made sure that not a single branch of the tree had to be cut. The roof slab of the building was partly converted into a landscaped terrace garden, helping to integrate the building with its historic surroundings. A viewing gallery and amphitheater intended for recreation and relaxation overlook the river Mula, which flows along the northern side of the building. This alignment ensured that each habitable space has natural, glarefree north light and ventilation. In addition, the curvilinear change in elevation provided the maximum road width at the ground level, where the site was tightly constrained on three sides. The structure’s unconventional shape posed several challenges during the design development stage, including: • Feasibility of using bi-directionally curved walls to support large slabs and beams. • Dynamics of the interaction of curved walls with slabs, beams, and columns. • Predicting the behavior of curved concrete walls during earthquakes.
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The architects’ design dictated that concrete walls were essential to support brick cladding on the exteriors and also to provide concrete form finish on the interiors. The main challenge for the structural engineers was to employ and exploit these walls to support gravity and lateral forces. First, the engineers had to answer numerous questions: Can bi-directionally curved walls of restricted thickness support slabs without excessive deflection? Can the structure resist the high seismic forces expected in this locality? Can large openings be made in the curved walls without compromising structural integrity? What about placing a curved wall on a set of beams that, in turn, rests on another curved wall? The complexity of the BIEL building, which covered a built-up plan area of 2,128 square meters, demanded highly accurate modeling. STAAD.Pro was found to be the most versatile software for modeling and analyzing this structure, because of its flexible modeling environment, advanced features, powerful text editor, and interoperability. The Bentley software enabled the engineers to perform comprehensive and integrated finite element analysis, including analyzing for static loading; dynamic response; soil-structure interaction; and wind, earthquake, and moving loads. STAAD.Pro allowed walls to be modeled as plate elements, and because of the software’s hybrid formulation, it could simulate the behavior of both thick and thin
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plates. It also allowed the engineers to model openings within the walls. The engineers were able to perform both static and dynamic analysis to understand the behavior of the structure, including the steel bridge under different loading conditions. STAAD.Pro also helped the engineers design the walls using its innovative cut-line method, where the software outputs the design forces along a user-define cut line. The 3D structural model was prepared easily by importing the vertical curved profile of the wall from AutoCAD into STAAD.Pro and then using the extrude, mirror, and copy features to model the curved wall. Optimal Material Quantities To meet the load bearing requirements of the structure, which included roof-top gardens in some areas, the final design called for 1,452 cubic meters of concrete and 178 metric tons of steel. The curved walls alone called for 200 cubic meters of concrete and 47 metric tons of steel. While the quantity of steel required was quite high, the engineers were confident that their analysis yielded optimal quantities to reinforce the beams and slabs connected to the downward and laterally deflected curved wall. In addition, architectural constraints required minor axes of many columns to be oriented along the beam. In fact, one curved wall rests on the beams, acting as a load rather than a support. The BIEL building is one of the rare structures where bi-directionally curved walls support slabs and beams, and the same beams and slabs prevent the wall from falling away. The unconventional structure challenged the firm’s engineers to analyze and design for all the expected load combinations, satisfying the limit states of safety and serviceability. It was essential to understand the exact behavior of the structure before designing the structural elements.
STAAD.Pro helped the engineers to achieve this understanding. The Unconventional Alternative The unconventional design of the BIEL building may appear to be extravagant. But a more conventional design alternative that involved the use of cantilevers was, in fact, uneconomical and certainly less aesthetic. The architects chose the more challenging design and made it work. Consideration of the curved wall as a load bearing element (both gravity and seismic) ultimately resulted in substantial cost savings. Major cost benefits during the design phase were realized through effective coordination among the architectural and service teams. This was due to the 3D visualization of the frame, the flexibility of the structural analysis, and the reliability of the results delivered by STAAD.Pro. Designed to create an excellent ambience for innovation and learning, the BIEL building fits within the context of the campus’ protected heritage. The scale of the structure and usage of materials do not disturb the existing skyline in the vicinity, and yet the new building has its own identity. Shibanee and Kamal Architects made every effort, from design through construction, to protect the prized tamarind tree. With this tree as its focal point, the building blends in with its surroundings through the application of natural cladding materials and terrace gardens.
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Windows lose and gain heat by conduction, convection, radiation and air leakage. This heat transfer is expressed with U-values. As a rating of energy efficiency, U-value can be used to consider performance of windows, exterior doors, skylights and all other exterior building components, including exterior walls. In windows, the U-value measures how well heat is transferred by the entire window, that is the frame, sash and glass combined. The lower the U-value, the more insulated the window unit and therefore the better the window will be in retaining the interiorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heat in the winter and keeping heat out during summer. U-values are important because they form the basis of any energy or carbon reduction standard. A significant part of the thermal energy transmission can be through the frames, or profiles, depending on how well the profile material conducts heat. Metals are generally good conductors which is why they feel hot to touch when exposed to the sun. This makes them poor thermal insulators. Timber and plastics such as uPVC are poor conductors which therefore stops the heat transfer from the heatexposed side to the non-exposed side. PVC and timber window frames are approximately thermally equivalent and provide a high level of energy efficiency compared to a standard aluminium frame.
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Cooling Climates In cooling climates, the main goal is to keep unwanted heat from entering the home and to reduce the reliance on artificial cooling systems. Choosing double glazed uPVC windows with low SHGC measures limits solar heat gain and can therefore reduce artificial cooling requirements and so, energy consumption.
Heating Climates In heating climates, the aim is to retain heat and to maximise the penetration of solar energy in winter. uPVC window profiles provide excellent insulation, ensuring heat loss from inside to outside is minimised but solar radiation through glazing is good. uPVC windows with a low U-value and moderate to high SHGC are preferable in cooler climates such as Tasmania, Southern Victoria and some parts of New South Wales and South Australia.
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he uPVC Window and Doors Manufacturers Association (UWDMA) has recently drafted a set of Quality guidelines to create benchmark of technical specifications of uPVC Windows and Doors. The new guidelines have been set in order to give consumers a better understanding of the options available and help them make the best choice. For ease, convenience and accessibility, the association has also listed the guidelines online at www.uwdmaindia.org. Currently the windows and doors profiles in India are dominated by aluminum and wood. World over, uPVC profile is the default choice. They not only provide greater durability, but also offer stunning looks and ultimate energy efficiency by entirely keeping out noise, dust, heat or cold.
uPVC windows also are more cost effective than aluminum and wood when compared apple to apple. In the last few years, more and more projects in India have upgraded to uPVC windows and doors profiles and have become the fastest growing segment in the industry. The draft will be shared among all stakeholders, directly and indirectly involved in the line of business, across India. Some of the key points covered under the new guidelines will address all aspects of a given uPVC window and door profile. This includes Profiles Quality parameters, hardware tested for functionality, strength, operation & smoothness, usage of galvanised steel, processed glass only as per standards set by Federation of Safety Glass, Quality System Procedure or Quality documents to be verified of the manufacturer and installation. “Lately, we have started witnessing some players, especially from the unorganized segment, compromise on the quality and safety to achieve better sales. It is our endeavour to protect the consumers’ interest by providing them with adequate information via setting down Quality guidelines that’ll help them make an informed decision,” says Mr. Rajesh Chawla, Vice-President, UWDMA. UWDMA through Bureau of Indian Standards is also working on a standard for the Indian market based on the EN 12608 with certain parameters adapted to suit the
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market may end up like the unorganised aluminium or wood products. The new benchmarks have been created with the objective of streamlining the industry and instilling trust in the minds of consumers. We are also aggressively driving membership in the association so that more and more stakeholders become part and voice of the booming uPVC windows and doors industry,â&#x20AC;? concludes Mr. Chawla. About UWDMA: uPVC Window & Door Manufacturers Association, known as UWDMA is a non-profit body formed to create value proposition benefiting all from use of uPVC windows across India. Established in 2008, UWDMA is a non-governmental organization formed by industry leaders to promote and propagate uPVC windows and doors and its benefits to the Indian construction industry and general public at large.
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Indian climatic conditions and test ability. The profiles, besides being required to conform to EN 12608:2003 are also required that their class be specified by the manufacturer clearly printed on the profile so that the customer can identify the brand or original manufacturer and the standard followed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;uPVC as a material is not only used in window and door applications but also in piping, water storage, roofing membranes, electrical insulation among others. However, when it comes to the windows and doors industry because of non-adherence in standardization here unlike in the western countries, uPVC products may lose sheen. Since the uPVC windows and doors market is expected to grow in the years to come, we want to build a strong foundation so that the market does not get infiltrated with substandard products. If we cut corners at this juncture the windows and doors
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Earth Sciences Building University of British Columbia Location: Vancouver, British Columbia Size: Five-storey, 15,238 m2 Gross area 158,767 ft2 Capacity: 615 full-time equivalents Architect: Perkins+Will Canada Architects Earth Sciences Building University of British Columbia Construction Company Bird Construction Engineer Equilibrium Consulting Inc. Project Owner: University of British Columbia B.C. Government Ministry Ministry of Advanced Education, Innovation and Technology
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he University of British Columbiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recently completed Earth Sciences Building had to live up to the universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strong reputation in the earth, ocean and atmospheric sciences. It would have to be iconic and use green building technologies. The solution was the extensive and innovative use of cross-laminated timber (CLT), a new solid wood product that is as strong as reinforced concrete.
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The building used more than 1,300 cubic metres of CLT, all sourced and engineered in B.C. Each ton of dry wood product offsets between 1.8 and 2.0 tons of CO2, so the wood materials in the Earth Sciences Building will sequester about 1,094 tonnes of CO2. The facility has two five-storey wings connected by an atrium, and provides modern learning spaces for earth sciences students and leading-edge laboratories for many researchers.
Our extensive use of wood helped create a warm and welcoming learning environment for thousands of students at UBC. It’s also a dramatic, very tangible example of the University’s strong connections to innovation in the resource sector, and of our commitment to sustainability. One of the wings features wood as its primary structural material, using new products and finding new ways to use existing products. When the building was completed in August 2012, it was North America’s largest panelized wood building and thelargest application of CLT.
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research A five-storey free-floating cantilevered staircase built entirely of solid timber is the first of its kind in the world; with oversized landings, it can act as informal meeting areas. Full-storey steel glulam hybrid transfer trusses convert the entire second floor structure into a “roof truss” capable of carrying the load of the remaining floors. Wood Features: Innovative techniques: attractive and effective – The Earth Sciences Building has a hybrid floor system of wood and concrete that is lighter than solid concrete and provides excellent sound absorption. A five-storey free-floating cantilevered staircase built entirely of solid timber is the first of its kind in the world; with oversized landings, it can act as informal meeting areas. Full-storey steel glulam hybrid transfer trusses convert the entire second floor structure into a “roof truss” capable of carrying the load of the remaining floors. Enhanced fire safety – The structure has a fire retardant coating that slows or eliminates fires from growing across the wood’s surface. Engineering of the wood product and building design ensures exterior layers char, preventing the interior from burning and maintaining structural integrity. Safe and efficient connections and braces – Throughout the building, special connections were put in place to attach steel beams and wood beams to engineered wood columns. Diagonal glulam heavy timber braces at the end walls of each storey are used to resist seismic loads. Natural choice, clear benefits – Wood was a natural choice for the Earth Sciences Building. Wood-based building designs have a lower energy and carbon footprint, and wood is durable, adaptable and versatile. Link to nature: positive environment – The building benefits from wood’s tangible connection to nature and the outdoors, something that cannot be matched by other building materials. Research by the University of British Columbia and FPInnovations concludes that wood interiors reduce stress, which creates a productive and high-quality learningenvironment for teachers and students.
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research A five-storey free-floating cantilevered staircase built entirely of solid timber is the first of its kind in the world; with oversized landings, it can act as informal meeting areas. Full-storey steel glulam hybrid transfer trusses convert the entire second floor structure into a “roof truss” capable of carrying the load of the remaining floors. Wood Features: Innovative techniques: attractive and effective – The Earth Sciences Building has a hybrid floor system of wood and concrete that is lighter than solid concrete and provides excellent sound absorption. A five-storey free-floating cantilevered staircase built entirely of solid timber is the first of its kind in the world; with oversized landings, it can act as informal meeting areas. Full-storey steel glulam hybrid transfer trusses convert the entire second floor structure into a “roof truss” capable of carrying the load of the remaining floors. Enhanced fire safety – The structure has a fire retardant coating that slows or eliminates fires from growing across the wood’s surface. Engineering of the wood product and building design ensures exterior layers char, preventing the interior from burning and maintaining structural integrity. Safe and efficient connections and braces – Throughout the building, special connections were put in place to attach steel beams and wood beams to engineered wood columns. Diagonal glulam heavy timber braces at the end walls of each storey are used to resist seismic loads. Natural choice, clear benefits – Wood was a natural choice for the Earth Sciences Building. Wood-based building designs have a lower energy and carbon footprint, and wood is durable, adaptable and versatile. Link to nature: positive environment – The building benefits from wood’s tangible connection to nature and the outdoors, something that cannot be matched by other building materials. Research by the University of British Columbia and FPInnovations concludes that wood interiors reduce stress, which creates a productive and high-quality learningenvironment for teachers and students.
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BATHROOM & sanitaryware
product line Villeroy & Boch
Colour in the bathroom Colourful highlights and new hues for the bathroom
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one are the times when white tiles and white ceramics set the tone in the bathroom. Today there are a wide range of opportunities for a colourful design in the bathroom - from colourful highlights to fresh surges of colour and right up to neutral accents. Not only the tiles, but also ceramics, furniture and the shower are set in completely new shades in the bathroom.
Joyce: Colourful highlights at the washing area Joyce from Villeroy & Boch is the collection for the bath with Apps. Because with Joyce you can design flexible bathrooms that change to the needs, wishes and moods of the user. The innovative concept is based on removable, functional accessories - Apps - with which you can personalise the bathroom to your liking. Particularly useful are the stackable App bowls, available in three heights, supplied optionally with different in-serts: With them, it is easy to keep order in the bathroom and have toothbrush or razor at your fingertips at any time. The round App bowls can be combined in numerous ways with each other and fit perfectly into the bathroom ambience. For example, they are available in White, in Peru terracotta, in warm-yellow Sahara, in Curaรงao, a forceful petrol, and in the shining fuchsia hue Florida. This makes many exciting colour combi-nations possible. Special highlight: The ceramic valve for the sink is also available in all App colours - for a special blur of colour in the ceramics.
Avento: Modern colour in the bathroom The new Avento bathroom collection from Villeroy & Boch combines a modern design with practical functionality. For the washing area, Avento offers a large selection of washbasins with narrow edges and bathroom furniture with acrylic glass fronts in four trendy colours: Crystal White, Crystal Grey, Crystal Black and the expressive Crystal Blue. In particular, the new blue shade brings a strong accent colour into the bathroom. It matches exceptionally well to the white ceramic, and in this combination it gives the bathroom a modern, Scandinavian or Mediterraneanstyle atmosphere. The furniture range comprises bathroom sink cabinets for all sink sizes, which are equipped with two drawers and slim, elongated handles. There is also a tall cabinet and a smaller side cabi-net, which is wall mounted. The furniture offers modern functionality and provides plenty of storage space, thus keeping the bathroom tidy.
Copper: Extravagant colour accent The Venticello bathroom collection sets aims at a consistent filigree design with its thin edges and modern aesthetics. There are vanity units in two heights for all vanity washbasins and for the counter top washbasin, they have one or two drawers divided 1:2 and are available on request with automatic interior drawer lighting. Three solitary side cabinets provide extra storage in the bathroom. The grips are available in classic glossy chrome but also White Matt, Grey Matt and Blue Matt, and even Copper, to provide a colourful accent. With the current colour Copper, the handles are neutral yet self-confident eye-catchers for that certain something in the individually designed bathroom.
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The current White Wood colour trend combines a pure white with a subtle wood struc-ture. With this charming combination of bright colour and fine-grained wood, White Wood gives furniture surfaces a pure white but natural touch. The new colour will be offered for the Subway 2.0, Venticello and Legato furniture ranges, which has been completely expanded from a furniture range to a complete bathroom collection. Con-ceived to be functional and versatile in a modern design, Legato brings modern interiors into the bathroom.
Subway Infinity: Unlimited, individual possibilities The Subway Infinity shower areas from Villeroy & Boch open infinite possibilities for the design of the shower area. Because they are not only available in 27 standard sizes, but can also be manufactured in any required size. The drain, which is flush-fitted in the shower tray, creates a clear design with a seamless look. Subway Infinity is available in three standard anti-slip colours: White Alpine, Ardoise and Taupe. In addition, with Subway Infinity Villeroy & Boch opens up exclusive design options with ViPrint: Flush-mounted shower trays in 18 standard sizes can be printed to match the selected tile design. You can select from three decorative designs - Lodge Beige-Effect, Creme-Effect and X-Plane Anthracite-Effect. The design and shape of the shower tray blend in perfectly with the tiles and thus create a uniform look.
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BATHROOM & sanitaryware
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World Toilet Day 2015 Villeroy & Boch supports children and youth centre in Cape Town. Sanitary equipment for extension to Guga S’Thebe Children’s Theatre.
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he World Toilet Day was first proclaimed on 19th November 2001. The project, which is supported by the United Nations, pursues the objective of improving the provision of sanitary facilities worldwide, as 2.5 billion people are still without sufficient sanitary facilities. This has serious consequences for health and the environment - especially infectious diseases can spread more easily without toilets. Villeroy & Boch is continu-ously committed to improving the situation and supports, for example, the Guga S’Thebe Children’s Theatre in Cape Town with sanitary ceramics. The multi-functional children and youth centre, Guga S’Thebe Children’s Theatre, was set up in Langa, the oldest township in Cape Town, after the end of Apartheid in the 1990’s. For the children and youths in Langa, Guga S’Thebe is a unique place where, outside of school and away from their often difficult domestic situations, they can learn, play, make music and develop their creativity together with teachers and artists. Since 2013, an extension is being built to the Guga S’Thebe centre, which has also be-come a centre of attraction for international artists and designers. Thanks to an initiative of the “ArchitekturSalon” of the renowned trade magazine AIT, several small individual rooms for learning in groups and a big multi-function room providing space for exhibi-tions and concerts are being built on a site donated by Cape Town. The sanitary elements required for equipping the toilets in the extension were supplied by Villeroy & Boch. Wall-mounted WCs and suction urinals from the O.novo series as well as a handicapped accessible O.novo Vita WC will be installed. With the matching O.novo bathroom sinks, the sanitary rooms are not only designed functionally but also aesthetically: O.novo combines modern comfort with a timeless design. The fifth and last construction phase of the Guga S’Thebe Children’s Theatre started in July 2015 and should be completed by October 2015. Together with native artists, the South African architect Carin Smuts and the inhabitants of the townships, students from RWTH Aachen, PBSA Düsseldorf, Georgia Tech Atlanta and UCT Cape Town will complete the project.
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LED LIGHTING
FEATURE
LED lighting market remains very bright
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he outlook for the LED lighting market remains very bright. Despite fluctuations in the economy and the general lighting industry, LED lighting continues to occupy a significant portion of the overall lighting market. According toTrendForce, LED lighting market penetration will reach 31 percent of the $82.1 billion global lighting market in 2015.
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urope is the largest geographic market segment—accounting for 23 percent of the global lighting market share, followed by China at 21 percent and the US at 19 percent. Industry analysts predict significant growth over the next decade. Electronics engineers and product development managers are continually innovating LED designs to keep pace with the latest market trends. Creating designs for LED lighting applications presents several challenges, including the need to protect the LEDs’ electronics and circuits from lightning, transient surges and electrostatic discharge (ESD). These electrical threats may jeopardize the safety of personnel and endanger the consumer’s ROI. Failure to use proper safeguards could also lead to compliance issues with regulatory and safety standards related to overvoltage transients. Some of the most common applications for LED lighting are outdoor, residential and architectural. Outdoor LED lighting is quickly gaining popularity for tunnels, roadways, traffic lights, parking lots and garages. Residential applications for LEDs include lighting in kitchens, hallways, dining rooms and bathrooms. When compared with other lighting technologies, only LED lighting can be used as a comprehensive replacement for fluorescent lighting. Architectural segment is the second-
largest end-user segment for LED lighting. For architectural applications, LEDs are used in both decorative and functional lighting. Decorative LEDs are used to illuminate fountains, pools, gardens and statues. For functional applications, including building facades and landscaping, LEDs provide visibility and enhance safety on residential and commercial properties. In response to the current LED market trends, manufacturers are making significant changes in their operations. Manufacturers are placing a greater emphasis on vertical integration, focusing on chip-on-board modules and light engines in 2015. Moving down the supply value chain to products that form the intermediate steps between LED components and lamps/luminaires may be an attractive strategy due to the lowprofit margins for LED components. LED market will continue to grow throughout the next decade, with the global LED market share reaching about 70 percent by 2020. Asia will occupy about 45 percent of the global general lighting market by 2020. The report indicated that rapid penetration in Japan and China is driving Asia’s marketleading position for transitioning to LEDs in general lighting. In Europe, the current LED value-based market share is approximately 9 percent, by 2020, the share is expected to rise to over 70 percent.
Europe is the largest geographic market segment— accounting for 23 percent of the global lighting market share, followed by China at 21 percent and the US at 19 percent. Industry analysts predict significant growth over the next decade.
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LED LIGHTING
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Top 10 LED Industry Trends in 2015 n LED manufacturers expansion plans depend on government subsidies, Chinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s MOCVD installation volume remains largest n Chinese LED manufacturers market shares grow, big manufacturers become even larger n LED lighting clients continue to seek low cost solutions n Finding special niche applications to raise profitability n Growing automotive LED market value, exterior automotive lighting market showing highest growth n Mobile phones become thinner, smartphone backlight LED specs turn towards 0.4t n Flash LED usage volume gradually increases in high-end smartphones n Declining tablet shipment volume affects backlight LED market value n LEDs for TV backlight applications shift towards reducing usage volume and raising color saturation n Small pitch display increasing market penetration becomes major growth momentum in display market
LED lighting manufacturers of India are trying to cash in on the opportunity that will arise from the Modi government scheme to distribute two LED bulbs at the cost of Rs 10. Falling prices lead to demand The reducing price tags has also increased the buying power of the Indian customers, and has led to increased penetration across different sectors in India.The buying pattern has also gradually moved from being brand driven to being price driven. With the falling prices for certain LED lighting products like LED downlights, LED bulbs and LED lamps,
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Energy efficiency is fuelling demand As compared to CFLs, LEDs are 50 per cent more energy efficient, and have a longer life than CFLs as well. LED lights can last up to 50-60K hours, but as of now, the Indian LED lighting manufacturers are assuring a life of 20-30k hours only.
and LED streetlights demand has increased significantly. For example, 15W downlights, which were selling at Rs 2500 each, have come down to around Rs 1500. Even LED tubelights of 18 W, which replaced 36W FTL, have come down from Rs 3000 to around Rs 1700. LED lighting manufacturers of India are trying to cash in on the opportunity that will arise from the Modi government scheme to distribute two LED bulbs at the cost of Rs 10. This scheme will not only phase out inefficient incandescent bulb, tubes and halogen lamps,but also boost LED lighting applications across the country, and open up immense business opportunities for the domestic manufacturers to expand their production capacity to meet the demand that is expected to increase significantly. Electric Lamp and Component Manufacturers Association (ELCOMA) has estimated that the LED industry in India will grow to Rs 200,000 million by 2020, from Rs 40,000 million in 2014.
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tiles
product line Vita Granito
Innovation on the floor Industry Details
The Indian tile industry is poised for positive changes. We speak with industry expert Vineet Mal, Director-sales & marketing, Vita Granito To Find out where the trends are headed.
The tile trade in India has undergone transition from a period of shortages till early eighties to tremendous production capacities as seen today,which is primarily due to the delicensing of the industry and liberalization of the economy, resulting in a boost in housing, construction and infrastructure sectors. Today, india manufacture close to 1100 million square metre tiles per annum, besides imports from china, the far east and Europe. The consumption too, has increased manifold.
Popular trends The popular trends in India include valueadded products such as bigger formats and trendy surfaces (wood finishes and sugar or rustics) as well as special application tiles like outdoor tiles and digital wall tiles. Lately glazed vitrified tiles (GVT) and polished glazed vitrified tiles (PGVT) have also caught the buyers fancy. The matt tiles section has also increased, but not beyond 25-30% of the over all floor segment. Slim tiles too, are being imported but with a limited success for commercial reasons and lack of awareness.
Innovative Product At Vita Granitopvt Ltd, we have taken a cautious and conservative approach to innovations and speed of growth by choice.The major reason is that we are primarily an ethical company. We follow all the possible compliance of the government and we believe in fulfilling our commitments, which is a basic thread that starting from our Chairman Devenderbhai goes down the line. Our most popular products are our Double Charge series and PGVT/GVT series, which have many design and colour variants, and are now available in 80 X80 cm Size. However, our latest development is 600 X 1200 mm format in PGVT, which offers
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Your views on wall tiles Tiles on walls is diverse variety of formats, designs and finishes as well as printing (with even third firing or second firing on digital printing) There are also motifs and highlighters, which offer an exquisite contast / combination. Tiles as backsplashes in kitchens and bathrooms make for a beautiful focus. Tiles are also used on staircase, subways and hygiene sensitive areas like factories and hospitals as well as walls of commercial buildings.
Trends in india Indian trends are all about on following each other and extending into basic rather than more innovative lines. However, there are companies, which are making innovations such as 800 x 1200 mm and600 x 1200 mm sizes and wood strips of 20cm x 120cm as press ready products.VitaGranito is on such company. India needs to see more differentiated products and innovations on surface plus professionalism in working with more emphasis on marketing and training of personnel and means to retain them.
Future Scenario Internationally, it is all about survival, especially in Europe due to onslaught of products from china and the far east. Saudi Arabia is erratic in its imports and Brazilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economy is junked by the international community. All these countries will need to focus on emerging markets and make cost effective stylish products, besides venturing into new pastures such as Africa and untapped areas of East Europe, Balkans and parts of Middle East. We are also seeing the current innovation in 3mtr X 1mtr size for wall cladding being made by a few manufacturers in that part of the world.
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pre-engineered building
product line Cold Steel Building Systems
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Cold Steel Corporation: Trusted manufacturer of Pre Engineered Buildings Since 1977
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old Steel Corporation is the pioneer and one of the leading brands in the field of PreEngineered Steel Buildings in India. Offering the widest product range, unmatched quality and super fast deliver at highly competitive prices; it has completed more than 2000 projects in the past 37 years.
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Pioneers in the field of Pre Engineered Buildings in India: With core values of providing the customers with high quality products at competitive prices, Cold Steel Corp. was founded in 1977 with the vision of introducing Pre-Engineered Buildings to the Indian market. Cold Steel Building Systems pioneered the concept at a time when steel was scarce and customers were not aware of the advantages of using custom built steel sections and preengineered structures. Since then Cold Steel Corporation has emerged as a leader in meeting the exact needs of Indian P.E.B market by introducing world-class steel building designs and details exactly suited to local conditions and the available building materials. Cold Steel Building Systems have been in the business of manufacturing PEB since 1977 and has successfully completed more than 10,000 buildings till date. Having the widest range of PEB systems and offering comprehensive building solutions, including foundation designs, Preengineered steel structures, roofing and side sheets/cladding, complete accessories and installation, Cold
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Steel Building Systems happen to be amongst the primary choices for PEB manufacturer in India. Having built some state of the art
buildings ranging from Asiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest float glass manufacturing facility for Saint Gobain Glass Ltd. at Bhiwadi to the iconic 26 story IFCI Building in
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Saint Gobain Glass India, Bhiwadi
State of the art, 10,000 sq.mtr industrial facility for Mahindra Auto Steel at Pune
Quality Assurance:
Production Facilities
The company has developed a management system that covers the entire lifecycle of a product, from the initial market research phase up to when the product is phased out. The company builds design quality into the development process by breaking the design phase down into detailed processes, in each of which the work details and the conditions for moving to the next process are standardized. In this way, the quality of the entire product can be assured.
• State of the art, 2,50,000 Sq Ft covered Work Shop Area • 80,000 tons of annual capacity. Amongst the largest in India • Fully Automatic, CNC H-Beam Assembly line • Fully Automatic CNC multi head cutting and welding • Use of Astrofoil technique’ for assembly and fabrication to ensure 100 per cent matching and ‘Zero Defect’ • Use of only high tensile, pickled/
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Industrial buildings Ware houses and cold storages Aircraft hangars Multistory buildings Fuel station canopies and large retail outlets
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the heart of New Delhi, the laurels achieved by Cold Steel Building Systems in the field of steel building manufacturing are unmatchable. Today Cold Steel is not only catering to the entire Indian market but has done more than a dozen major projects abroad and are looking at sustained business opportunities in the North American markets. The company has a mission to deliver top quality building solutions, with continuous and ongoing investment in people, products and technology. The company strives to build sustainable relationships with customers, by satisfying their evolving needs, safety and lifestyle through the employees whose entrepreneurial spirit and ambition is fuelled by the culture of pride, learning, earning and fun. The products and services reflect innovation, become quality benchmarks and provide real value for money. The policies and practices are fair, transparent and constantly improving to maximize customer satisfaction. The company constantly endeavors towards customer satisfaction by delivering products and services of the best value and quality. The company strives to honor the commitments, implied or expressed, to both the internal and external customers.
For further info www.coldsteels.com E-mail: enquiry@coldsteels.com
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SMART CITIES
FEATURE smart cities
E- BRICKS: THE FOUNDATION OF SMART CITIES Dr. A.N.Sarkar, Ex-Senior Professor (International Business) & Dean (Research), Asia-Pacific Institute of Management, 3&4 Institutional Areas, Jasola (Sarita Vihar), New Delhi; E.mail: ansarkar1@gmail.com
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he smart city infrastructure is the introductory step for establishing the overall smart city framework and architecture. Very few smart cities are recently established across the world. The scope of these cities is mainly limited to construct a technology park converting the industrial real estate to state of the art information technology using the evolution in the telecom and IP networks including insignificant asset management automation system. While cities do not live on technology alone, ICT is an essential driver of a community’s economic and social development. As such, cities around the globe should be – and many are – seeking to harness the benefits of the latest generation of ICT. For instance, South Korea’s Songdo will likewise soon have integrated all its information systems for buildings, hospitals, transport and businesses. In South Africa, Johannesburg is teaming up with a technology company to build a broadband network that will provide high-speed services to businesses and local residents by the first quarter of 2013. This is not to say that ICT is the exclusive domain of major metropolises. Consider the case of the satellite town of Sant Cugat del Vallès, located
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just outside Barcelona, which has fitted one of its streets with a network of sensors that enables the council to manage a whole range of services remotely, including traffic, parking, waste management, trash receptacles, environmental control, lighting and Wi-Fi. Thus, going by the recent global trend, we need to believe that the Internet of Things has, of late, become an in-thing for providing E. Bricks in building the ‘Smart Cities’. E-government operations related to E. Bricks require citizens and external organisations to receive appropriate e-services, delivered by an organisation’s automated business processes and supported by information and communication technologies (ICT). The delivering organisation must therefore be able to manage these services, typically through business units and officers who are responsible for the development of business processes and ICT. This area of service management can be reinforced and strengthened, however, by using architectures: business architectures, information systems architectures, technology architectures and the processes used to produce them
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The Smart Cities are at the Forefront of the Future Internet The smart city vision does involve hard infrastructure such as introducing smart grids alongside various forms of renewable energy generation and building new systems of mobility based on distributed networks but is perhaps primarily articulated through ‘soft infrastructure’ i.e. social networks and communities, legal and cultural systems, and various forms of ICT. Equally, the output of such thinking, through the emerging medium of urban informatics, can often be engaging, informative, even beautiful, realized in the form of increasingly refined audio-visual displays and interfaces, installations, websites and systems, all driven via these real-time learning layers overlaid onto the existing city. This has the effect of ‘making the invisible visible’ thus raising awareness about urban infrastructure, activity and ecosystem (Smart cities in the context of urbanization.The successful development of the ‘Smart Cities paradigm’ will “require a unified ICT infrastructure to allow a sustainable economic growth” and this unified ICT platform must be suitable to “model, measure, optimize, control, and monitor complex interdependent systems of dense urban life”. Once major challenges of unified urban-scale ICT platforms are identified, it is clear that the future development of Smart Cities will be only achievable in conjunction with a technological leap in the underlying ICT infrastructure. In this work one would tend to advocate that this technological leap can be done by considering Smart Cities at the forefront of
E-Bricks: The Foundation of Smart Cities E-Bricks of the smart cities – the core conceptual domain of this paper, attempts to integrate information from multiple data sources (sensor networks, information systems, internet etc.) and offer on these common data processing infrastructure, value addition and advanced support for third parties to develop services on processed data and make them available openly following a scheme of Open Data System for public consumption. The major thematic content of the chapter, inter alia, includes: developing a policy roadmap for smart cities and use of internet, cloud computing , smart cities drivers and ICT applications in search of forging business linkages, smart city architecture and building blocks, mobile applications, Transformational ‘Smart Cities’ for Cyber Security and Resilience etc. At the outset, let us take a look into the near future to see how these trends will affect city development. Figure 1 shows how technologies like big data and analytics, mobility, social media, and cloud provide a foundation for meeting city business goals and creating valuable services. Today, less than 1% of things that could be connected are connected to the Internet or intelligent systems. IDC projects that by 2020, there will be 212 billion “things” in the world and
the recent vision of the Future Internet (FI). Although there is no universally accepted definition of the Future Internet, it can be approached as “a socio-technical system comprising Internet-accessible information and services, coupled to the physical environment and human behavior, and supporting smart applications of societal importance” Thus the FI can transform a Smart City into an open innovation platform supporting vertical domain of business applications built upon horizontal enabling technologies. The most relevant basic FI pillars for a Smart City environment are the following. The Internet of Things (IoT): defined as a global network infrastructure based on standard and interoperable communication protocols where physical and virtual “things” are seamlessly integrated into the information network (Sundmaeker, et al, 2010). The Internet of Services (IoS): flexible, open and standardized enablers that facilitate the harmonization of various applications into interoperable services as well as the use of semantics for the understanding, combination and processing of data and information from different service provides, sources and formats. The Internet of People (IoP): envisaged as people becoming part of ubiquitous intelligent networks having the potential to seamlessly connect, interact and exchange information about themselves and their social context and environment.
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Figure 1:Smart City of the Future Value Architecture that by 2017, 3.5 billion people will connect to the Internet, 64% of them via mobile devices. .
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FEATURE smart cities Smart City Framework Smart City Framework (SCF), is conceived to be a high level architecture of a platform that describes the scope of the innovations expected from the City-Pulse Project and the way they are integrated together in a coherent conceptual system. The purpose of this Framework concept is to serve as a reference model and architecture (RMA) to be used by smart city stakeholders, project partners and any other interested parties when engaged in technical discussions about smart cities services based on real-time information streams. The Smart City Framework is expected to be an initial architecture to set the main concepts, common language and the boundaries for the whole project while the details are expected to change within the course of the project execution. The Figure 2 presents the architecture in different views, functional, interface and information, security and privacy view and thus explains respectively what the framework does, how components interact with each other, the generation and flow of information, and the necessary mechanisms to address security and privacy concerns about city and citizen relevant data. In the presentation of the interface and information view each City-Pulse Work package (WP) has provided more detailed descriptions of their individual architectures, which, inter alia, includes High-level view of Smart City Framework.
Wipro’s Digital City: A Case Study for a Digital Smart City Wipro’s Digital City Design and ICT Master Planning project determines a best fit Digital City design, expected ROI and impact on operating costs, by integration of technologies for core Digital City services. Wipro Technologies defines a Digital City (Smart or Techno City) as a city that monitors and integrates conditions of all of its critical infrastructures, better optimizes its resources, plans its preventive maintenance activities, and monitors security aspects while maximizing services to its citizens. The concept of a Digital City is rapidly gaining momentum across many different urban areas, with various stakeholders trying to determine the right approach to deliver the vision of a Smarter City. At the core of the success of any Digital City programme is the impact on the citizen. All capabilities provided by the Digital City are focused around empowering citizens and enabling citizen leaders. In addition, these capabilities provide City Governments a clearer picture of the needs of a city, enabling more precise intervention and more efficient execution of citizen services. The crux to realizing this vision of a Digital City is Information and Communication technology (ICT). Digital cities depend on ICT to operate a diverse range of city functions and services. Technology ensures that elements of physical infrastructure are able to transmit real-time data on a city’s status, by way of sensors and processors applied within real-world infrastructure. This Physical to Digital integration brings about a convergence of processes that enables a digital city to function as an independent intelligence unit.
Developing a Policy Roadmap for Smart Cities and use of Internet
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The future Internet technologies and expected impact on cities will allow defining an innovation roadmap towards smart cities. Cities are increasingly aware of the concept of “smart city” and actively developing strategies towards the goal of becoming “smart” and manage more efficiently city resources and addressing development and inclusion challenges. Part of the development towards smart cities is the co-creation / crowd sourcing paradigm, people-led testing and implementation of technologies and ICT-based applications in sectors such as health and assisted living, participative government, energy management, and new work environments. The roadmap summarized here is based on a two-dimensional mapping of layers and time periods. The vertical dimension considers the
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Cloud Computing and Smart Cities Cloud computing is based on several technology advances related to high-speed networks, virtualization, and standardization of platforms and applications. However, “cloud computing is a new way of delivering computing resources, not a new technology” (Australian Government, 2011) providing Internet delivered computer services and a series of new business models of outsourcing (Figure 3). The US National Institute for Standards and Technology offers a stylized description of cloud computing as composed of five essential characteristics (on-demand self service, ubiquitous network access, metered use, elasticity, and resource pooling), three service models (software as a service - SaaS, platform as a service - PaaS, and infrastructure as a service - IaaS), and four deployment modes (private, community, public and hybrid clouds. Foresight estimations about developments in cloud computing is given by the Gartner Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing, which is positioning 38 technologies of this field at different stages of the Hype Cycle. In this type of analysis, each Hype Cycle is composed of five stages representing the typical progression of an emerging technology: (1) “Technology Trigger” or technology breakthrough and product launch that generate significant interest of the press, (2) “Peak of Inflated Expectations” the phase of over-enthusiasm and unrealistic expectations, (3) “Trough of Disillusionment” of reduced press interest because technologies fail to meet expectations and quickly become unfashionable, (4) “Slope of Enlightenment” with experimentations about the benefits and practical application of the technology, and (5) “Plateau of Productivity” in which the benefits of technologies become widely demonstrated and accepted.
following layers: technological change, business change, policy change and social change. The time dimension includes the short term, mid-term and longer term developments. In order to enhance the policy relevance of the road mapping approach, we focus on the systemic character of innovations related to smart cities, which require concurrent processes of socioeconomic and technological change. To provide guidelines to this process, the road mapping approach draws from systemic change literature taking into account several characteristics of systemic change which relate to the transformation towards smart cities, e.g. regimes, barriers, transitions, and niches of novel solutions. Cities are engines of economic growth, accounting for 80% of the global GDP. But they also consume around 75%
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Figure 3. Gartner Hype of Cloud Computing
of global primary energy and responsible for 70% of the global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (UN-Habitat, 2015). All sectors associated with urbanization (transport, building construction and maintenance, housing, waste management, energy, etc.) are registering trends that raise sustainability issues. Rapid and unplanned urbanization has led to growth of slums, sprawl, housing and infrastructure shortages, social segregation, and exclusion. Accompanied by motorization, it has caused congestion and hazardous air pollution. Cities are where inequalities are most acute (one-third of urban dwellers in the developing world, for example, live in slums), where threats to culture and heritage are rising, and where the heavy concentration of people and assets poses high level of challenges and disaster risks.
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FEATURE smart cities Infrastructure Dominated Smart Cities City leaders must provide the fundamental infrastructure to deliver services such as water, energy, telecommunications and transportation while making the city a desirable place through the intelligent application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The fundamental concept of a Smart City is the seamless integration of physical infrastructure, such as fiber optics, to the digital infrastructure. Figure 4 illustrates the
vision of the future city, a city with a pervasive overlay of ICT connecting things, organizations, and people. For example, imagine having sensors in cars connected to transportation management systems that analyze day-to-day traffic flow data that will provide drivers with better routes to their destinations and provide public safety officials with quicker routes to improve response times.
Smart Grids providers for Sustainability of Smart Cities Source: http://www.edf.org
Key to creating a step change in the sustainability of cities is â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;smarter gridsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. One of the biggest challenges for cities is its energy infrastructure. In addition to needing to revolutionise the way we produce and distribute energy so as to meet climate change targets, the pressures of growing city populations increases energy demand, and the need for greater resilience from national electricity grids. Smart grids seek to manage peak energy demand to reduce the need to build more capacity through new power stations. Smart grids also incorporate distributed and micro renewable energy (solar PV, combined heat and power, wind turbines etc.) thereby supporting the transition to a lower carbon energy mix. Smart grids require communication between users and Figure 5: The Smart Grid Basics of a Smart City suppliers of electricity meaning that energy citizens using those appliances to allow for automated transmission infrastructure (substations, gas pipes etc.) need to be improved to allow data to be systems to regulate energy demand. This becomes captured and transmitted. The Smart Grid basics are increasingly important as cities make the transition to electric vehicles which will create significant increases in shown as an illustration in Figure 5. Smart grids also require smart appliances and smart demands on the electricity network.
Semantic Web, Linked Data, Ontologies and Smart Cities The OVUM report on Smart Cities considered cloud computing and the IoT as fundamental layers of ubiquitous connectivity on which stands a layer of open public data and advanced analytics for fast-based decisions. The open standards trends have expended to government data and many agencies are providing access to datasets stimulating the creation of applications for information retrieval and decision making. Open data from various sources, government, sensors, citizens and businesses, offer
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The cloud will offer additional functionalities for linked data as any object will be related to objects contained in the cloud. The semantic web is expected to breaks down barriers, merging data from different sources and presenting it in meaningful way. Social media based collaboration and collective intelligence can reach a higher level of efficiency and information accuracy. Future media research and technologies offer a series of
solutions that might work in parallel to Internet of Things and embedded systems providing new opportunities for content management. Media Internet technologies is at the crossroads of digital multimedia content and Internet technologies, which encompasses media being delivered through Internet networking technologies, and media being generated, consumed, shared and experienced on the web.
Amsterdam: Connected Public Lighting within Smart Cities
Solar Thermal Ordinance and Fab-Lab in Barcelona City
Over the past decade, the city of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has developed a vision for collaborating, envisioning, developing, and testing numerous connected solutions that could pave the way to a smarter, greener urban environment (http://www.cisco.com/web/strategy/docs/scc/ cisco_amsterdam_cs.pdf). A number of projects were launched, beginning in 2006, as Amsterdam identified ways to improve sustainable living/ working, public spaces, and mobility. It’s a showcase for the “smart” metropolis of the future—in which tech giants like Cisco, Microsoft, and IBM see big profits in helping governments save by tracking data on everything from garbage to traffic to selfies. But not everyone is happy about this new urban reality. Most recently, the city has been exploring the potential for a connected public lighting infrastructure. With a mutual market focus around “livable” connected cities, Cisco and Philips are developing new concepts and innovations around network-enabled LED street lighting, including widespread education of elected officials, city managers, investors, and industry peers; development of new and powerful business ecosystems; and proofs of concept with leading cities. One engagement focused on the development of networked lighting and media content is in the Westergasfabriek zone of Amsterdam, in partnership with Philips, a real estate owner, and the city. This has resulted in a pilot that aims to provide an enhanced citizen experience by applying “design thinking” to enhance citizen experiences, and by developing the potential for on-demand, usage-based service provision; revenue-generation opportunities; and publicprivate partnership business models for networked civic services. There is a huge impact from developing a connected lighting solution across this city and globally.
The Solar Thermal Ordinance was approved by Barcelona City Council in 1999 and came into effect one year later in 2000 (Figure 6). The Ordinance requires all new buildings, renovated buildings, or buildings changing their usage plans (both private and public) to generate 60% of their hot water requirements from solar energy. Since its implementation in 2000, the number of solar panels in Barcelona has increased by 1,780%, effectively saving 32,076 MWh/year from hot water energy consumption. The equivalent CO2 savings achieved are in the region of 5,640 tonnes per year. Source: http://www.ecofriend.com
Figure 6: Solar Thermal Ordinance in Barcelona IAAC and Fab-Lab, Barcelona are currently developing other projects on self-sufficient and smart cities, through applied research on construction of theoretical and physical models that rises from the scale of devices to the territory, from bits to geography. One of the projects is “the self- Figure 7: SIIUR Fab.-Lab sufficient blocks”, which is Project in Barcelona- A in the stage of an interactive Night View model to test the flows of information, energy and resources between buildings and blocks of a city that will be tested in a 1:1 scale block of Barcelona (Figure 7).
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FEATURE smart cities New York: City24/7 Platform Informs, Protects, Revitalizes To revitalize the world’s largest cities, City24/7 — a company committed to making public communications more accessible to everyone, everywhere — in collaboration with Cisco and the City of New York has launched an interactive platform that integrates information from open government programs, local businesses, and citizens to provide meaningful and powerful knowledge anytime, anywhere, on any device. In short, City24/7 delivers the information people need to know, where and when it helps them most. Located at bus stops, train stations, major entryways, shopping malls, and sports facilities, City24/7 Smart Screens incorporate touch, voice, and audio technology to deliver a wide array of hyper-local (about two square
city blocks) information, services, and offerings in real time. The Smart Screens can also be accessed via Wi-Fi on nearby smart-phones, tablets, and laptop computers. The overarching goals of the City24/7 Smart Screens are to: n Inform by instantly connecting people with information that is relevant to their immediate proximity n Protect by giving local police and fire departments a citywide sensing, communications, and response network that can direct needed personnel and resources exactly where and when they are needed n Revitalize by increasing levels of commerce, investment, and tourism
Finland: Forum Virium Helsinki Through its smart city initiatives, Helsinki is making innovative use of mobile technology, engaging with citizens and opening public sector data up to all interested parties. Since 2007, a network of “Living Labs” has been providing test and experimentation environments where user communities can work with producers to co-create innovative smart city services in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area (Figure 8). A number of Figure 8: A Panoramic view of Helsinki in the Evening successful trials and commercial projects, such as a traffic smart city, wellbeing, new forms of media, innovative information platform and Helsinki Region Info-share, public procurement, innovation communities and growth have been deployed in Helsinki, which has also run open services. As part of the user-driven approach, smart city data competitions, such as Apps4Finland, to inspire start- ideas and proposals are sourced from a wide variety of ups, citizens and established companies to utilise open stakeholders, including citizens of Helsinki, public and data resources. private service providers, developers, and technology This network is overseen by Forum Virium Helsinki, companies. Helsinki’s smart city strategy is supported a private non-profit organization owned by the City by the development of a mobile application cluster and of Helsinki. Forum Virium Helsinki is tasked with a focus on open data. Forum Virium Helsinki has set up the development of new urban digital services in the Helsinki Region Infoshare project in collaboration collaboration with the private sector, the municipality, with City of Helsinki Urban Facts –department, to make other public sector organisations and Helsinki residents. regional information quickly and easily accessible to all Forum Virium Helsinki’s projects span six key areas - through www.hri.fi.
Chicago: Developing Digital Planning and Neighborhood Services Cisco and a wide range of public and private stakeholders in the city of Chicago are advancing a series of Smart + Connected Community initiatives (http://newsroom. cisco.com/press-release-content?articleId=678356). Objectives include fostering smarter working practices, incubating technology innovation, and promoting multistakeholder collaboration to investigate and enhance the social life of the city. As part of the Chicago STEM Education
Initiative, a new Cisco STEM Lab at one of the City’s five Early College Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Schools was announced by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Cisco is developing this new STEM Lab and a Cisco Network Academy, which teaches students the skills needed to build, design, and maintain, networks — improving their career prospects while filling the global demand for networking professionals. Continued on Next Page
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FEATURE smart cities Another agreement with the city, Cisco announced a partnership with Chicago land Entrepreneurial Center to build a new smart working center named “1871” that promotes entrepreneurship and collaboration throughout the city. In Chicago, the consortium has proposed three application concepts: Stay Safe, Community Report, and Safe Passage. Two of these — Stay Safe and Community Report — focus on synthesizing different sources of data (both user-generated reports and data collected by police, public agencies, or community organizations)
Innovation Ecosystems, Smart Cities and Living Labs Many cities have endorsed the Smart City concept. The Digital Agenda initiative of the European Commission promotes Smart Cities and the Future Internet Commission has also launched a Smart Cities and Com energy efficient cities of tomorrow. However peripheral cities that endorse the Smart City concept. Cities seem often to benefit from the of “Smart City” for mobilizing citizens, enterprises and research organizations for starting up new development initiatives. For example, Saint Etienne, a French city, in a situation of declining manufacturing industry, has such as optical, mechanical engineering, medical technology and design. tailored smart city strategy by focusing on “design for all” embedded within Design Creative City Living Lab has adopted designers, users and businesses, which are tailored to small and medium sized companies. Living Labs involve users at the earlier stage of the R&D process for co an open research and innovation ecosystem often based on a specific territory and involving a large diversity of stakeholders such as user communities (application pull), solution developers (technology push), research disciplines, local authorities and policy makers as the Living Lab ecosystem, through openness, multicultural and multidisciplinary aspects, conveys the necessary level of diversity, in empowering user communities it stimulates the emergence of breakthrough ideas, concepts and enterprises, especially SMEs, and users/citizens either as entrepreneurs or as communities to get access to technology infrastructures as well as science and innovation services. The main objective consists to co-create and explore new ideas and concepts, experiment new artefacts and evaluate breakthrough scenarios in a real life context that could be turned into successful innovations.
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and making this information available in a smart-phone application that uses a simple mapping interface and GPS. Over coming months, the Team Approach to Violence team will investigate the availability of different data sources, develop a demonstrator version of one of these concepts, and test the demonstrator app with community-based organizations in one or two South Side neighborhoods. The overall aim is to develop a demonstrator that can be tested and rolled out to other South Side neighborhoods.
Mobile Phones – A Catalyst for Smart City Applications Smart-Phones today are embedded with a huge array of sensors and computing and communication resources. They are diminishing the difference between the virtual world and the real world by capturing the physical world data and making the mobile device more contextaware. The interesting part of the mobile sensing is that these smart sensors are constantly mobile in a given environment and furthermore they are attached to an interesting entity such as the end-user. The all-pervasive nature of mobile phones lays out an extensive sensing fabric in the society thereby ticking off the first defining requirement for smart-city application. Secondly, most mobile devices are currently integrated with mobile cloud, which enables the offloading of mobile services to backend servers. This offers an unprecedented scalability and availability of vast computing resource which is useful for collecting large-scale sensor data. Data analysis may also be conducted in the back-end servers for intelligent usage of the collected data. This enables knowledge engineering and ticks off the second requirement of smart city application. Last but not the least, the advancement in mobile access technologies will in the near-future offer high-speed LTE access on all mobile devices. This would enable mobility and facilitate interlinking of data across vertical domains. The mobile apps are reachable to a vast majority of user-base through established app dissemination channels that exist today such as the app stores/markets. Furthermore majority of smart-phone platforms are open and programmable thereby offering very low entry barrier for third -party developers.
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FEATURE smart cities Berlin- A City of Research and New Ideas Berlin’s scientific landscape has a lot to offer – including a major contribution to the future of intelligent city design. Over 300 research groups and companies in Berlin are working on Smart-City-related subjects. Technische Universität Berlin has pooled its strengths and initiated the Smart City Urban Lab, the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS) is conducting research in and about Berlin as part of the Fraunhofer Morgenstadt Initiative, the Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin has founded the City of the Future center of excellence and FU Berlin is doing research on self-driving cars. Berlin has room for innovation: in recent years, the city has made areas for development available. They have prime locations, an exciting history and provide plenty of room for the future. The city initiated Urban Tech Republic for shaping the future of the Tegel Airport site. The vision of the “intelligent city” of the future is being developed today at EUREF Campus. Ecologically and economically sustainable solutions are making this office and scientific complex a center for innovation and future-oriented projects that is unique in Europe. Clean Tech Business Park in Marzahn provides ideal conditions for new companies and Technology Park Adlershof – already home to 1,000 companies – is one of the leading technology locations in Europe. Figure 9: Berlin: The City of Innovations
A city worth living in, Berlin is open to experimentation. This is why the city has evolved into one of Europe’s most important start-up metropolises. With its applications and services, the digital industry is a key driving force of technological development. Young, innovative companies from Berlin attract the world’s attention and successfully
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establish themselves in the market. Inspired by urban life, they deliver solutions for intelligent networking in all areas of life.
Figure 10: Berlin has room for Variety, Experiments and Innovations Today, the capital region is a pioneer in innovative, sustainable mobility. It is the largest practical laboratory for electro-mobility in Germany. Ranked no. 1 among all German cities, Berlin has the most vehicles and projects, and the largest public recharging network (Figure 11). The projects cover an extensive spectrum of possible applications: from private transportation and ecar-sharing fleets, public transportation and company fleets to freight transport with electric trucks, vans and bikes(www.emoberlin.de).
Figure 11: Germany’s Fastest Rail Communication System
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FEATURE smart cities Future Issues As mentioned earlier, concept of Smart cities are being researched from various perspectives, Internet of Things (IoT) addresses the network perspective of smart cities, while Machine2Machine Communication addresses the communication perspectives and Future Internet addresses the service perspective of Smart Cities. Each paradigm has many unanswered questions and open issues. The common subset of research challenges faced by all the above mentioned research directions can be summarized as follows: Scalability: With the rapid increase in number of smart devices coupled with heterogeneous type of devices, applications and interactions, Scalability is a primary technical challenge on the road to largescale deployment of sensors and sensing environment. Heterogeneity mentioned above poses issues related to Inter-operability. Privacy and Security: Huge of volume of sensor data that is expected to be aggregated and analyzed in the
mobile cloud brings with it issues relating to security and privacy. Data Processing and mining of vast amount of data poses the challenge of offering unified enriched and interoperable data description models. Similarly the freshness of data and maintaining other temporal requirements is also a big challenge. Ubiquitous access, including mobility and service continuity enabling access and availability to data and services within the Smart city is still one of the primary challenges. Lack of Testbeds: Many large IoT, and Smart city application deployments are jeopardized by the lack of Test-beds of the required scale, and suitable for the validation of recent research results. Many existing test-beds just offer experimentation and testing limited to small domain-specific environments or application specific deployments. While those may fulfill the needs as proof-of-concepts, they do not allow conclusive experimentation.
Protecting the Smart Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Services Smart grids and related infrastructure need protection from attacks that could cause severe stoppages to cities, public communities, industrial sites and essential services. Attackers exploiting vulnerabilities in SCADA systems (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), based on traditional software platforms, can lead to intrusions with the potential to disrupt data exchange between utility control centres and end users, and severely compromise the delivery of energy services (Figure 12). White listing techniques, used to ensure that only specified system applications and processes are active at any one time, are particularly effective against zero-day vulnerabilities and attacks in SCADA environments. Zero-day vulnerabilities are still unknown on the day of the attack, hence they are vulnerabilities against which no vendor has released a patch yet. Intruders can also install malware designed Figure 12 : Smart Services of Smart City to obtain sensitive information, to control the networks that operate the service and cause a denial-of- to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;stealâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; energy from other users, while preventing the service situation. This can be countered through intrusion provider from detecting service flaws. In order to make prevention techniques, coupled with robust policies for it impossible to manipulate smart meters in large scale areas such as network usage, browser patches, email and advanced metering infrastructures (AMIs), public and user awareness and education. At end-user level, key infrastructure (PKI) or managed PKI can be used, smart meters may simply be hacked and compromised thus securing data integrity, revenue streams and service for fraudulent purposes: to alter proof of consumption or continuity.
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Peter Cheney Managing Director, Construction Computer Software (CCS).
One aspect that has become more prevalent over the years is the ability to forecast ‘cost to complete’ – a very important process. And that forecast, ‘cost to complete’, has got to happen throughout the lifecycle of a project.
Over the past 30-plus years, CCS has developed a process that tracks the initial asset investment throughout the planning, feasibility, and project stage. Pre-tender, pre-bid, post-bid, all the way through the entire process and thereafter; in other words, final account. It does this in such a way that end users have a clear view of what the intent was with respect the allocation of a project’s resources, how to monitor and manage those resources throughout the project lifecycle, and of course, how to manage change with respect financial input. One aspect that has become more prevalent over the years is the ability to forecast ‘cost to complete’ – a very important process. And that forecast, ‘cost to complete’, has got to happen throughout the lifecycle of a project. Really, the allocation of resources, the tracking of costs, and their management with respect the original allowable budget, is what we do. CCS has all of the processes and procedures required to do exactly that; that’s our business.
Has the ability to forecast grown out of the ability to monitor? Not necessarily. That was the point right from the beginning. It’s all very well knowing where you should be going, but it’s really about identifying where you’re actually going that has the most benefit within the cycle. Because if you’re going wrong, you want to know ahead of time so that you can take corrective action. It’s no good trying to exercise downstream control. Downstream control gives you the results once they’ve happened. What you actually want is upstream control. You want to forecast the result before it happens. So certainly, in terms of the allocation of money, that would be top of our agenda, and the whole system has grown from that premise. You need to know now so that
you can forecast what’s going to happen in the future. If you don’t know now, it’s almost impossible to forecast what’s going to happen. You end up having to take ‘educated guesses’; sometimes they work out for you, but many times, they don’t.
How is this type of software being used in the Middle East? The Middle East is pretty sophisticated when it comes to the use of these tools, so we find that the software is used much like it is elsewhere in the world. We certainly have a pool of expertise in the Middle East that is able to use these tools efficiently. Added to this is the fact that CCS brings along well-defined procedures and processes, which can be put in place to support the software’s integration within an organisation. Essentially, we get everybody doing the work that they would normally have done, but in a slightly different way. This means that all of the elements – whatever the finance people, the commercial team, or the guys on the ground are doing – follow the same procedure. Following this procedure from inception all the way through to contract completion means that everybody does their job, but they do it in a way that integrates the data from start to finish. It’s like a chain.
Who are the end users of this type of technology? Generally, we’re talking about developers and ‘mud-on-the-boots’ people: contractors, subcontractors, and specialist subcontractors. With innovations such as building information modelling (BIM) and similar technologies, the GCC construction environment is becoming more and more integrated. Information that is made available by the professional team moves through the contractor all the way through the as-built and lifecycle cost of the project in question. All of this is coming together now. It’s very exciting.
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product line Construction Computer Software Are these tools best suited to large construction outfits?
CCS has systems that ensure those changes are recorded, managed, and used to forecast ‘cost to complete’. If you don’t follow this procedure, you could end up in trouble.
Not at all. Smaller contractors can and do make use of these tools. Again, it has very little to do with the size of your organisation and everything to do with the organisation within your organisation. Because let’s face it, all contractors should do exactly the same thing when it comes to the information they require. When you deliver a project, you only get one stab at delivery. You can’t go back and try again. Whether large or small, the procedures and processes that contractors should have in place are all the same. In fact, in many instances, we’ve enjoyed significant success with smaller contractors. This is because there’s generally one or two people in charge; they don’t have silos of expertise so there is no need to integrate our technology within well-developed silos. The managing directors and financial directors have the power to say: “This is how it’s going to be, and this is what we’re going to do.” These tools work really well with small organisations, although of course, we work with really large organisations as well.
Do these technologies help to reduce contract disputes? Here’s what we say at CCS. Post-tender project control – in other words, the construction phase – starts on day one, and continues every day all the way through
the project lifecycle. It’s about constantly monitoring changes. You don’t necessarily worry about what is already on paper; you worry about changes to that paper. I was speaking to a client yesterday about this very thing. He said that his company’s biggest challenge is to manage change. Well, the way you manage change is by staying on top of the original paperwork, and by monitoring costs throughout the project lifecycle. In other words, our processes and procedures make give end users the tools necessary to ensure that as changes happen, they are recorded. This is very important. Changes must be managed at source, as and when they happen, so that they can be used to forecast future change. If you don’t identify and record them early, you have no idea what the final cost is likely to be. And projects change all the time. Let’s face it, they never follow the original plan that you had in mind. CCS has systems that ensure those changes are recorded, managed, and used to forecast ‘cost to complete’. If you don’t follow this procedure, you could end up in trouble. At first, these systems might seem a little bit rigid, but in our opinion, you either have control or you haven’t. You can’t have a little bit of control; that’s ridiculous. It’s like driving a motorcar with one finger; you might think you’re in control but you’re not.
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