A Guide to Comprehensive Façade Design

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Volume 8 | Issue 1 January-February 2022

PUBLISHED BY F & F Media and Publications C-55, Okhla Industrial Area, Phase - 1, New Delhi-110 020 T: +91-11-40623356 FOUNDERS Amit Malhotra TECHNICAL PANEL Mahesh Arumugam Director Meinhardt Façade Consultants KR Suresh Regional Director Axis Façade Consulting EDITORIAL Renu Rajaram renu@wfmmedia.com +91 9312864830 Shefali Bisht editorial@wfmmedia.com DESIGN & CONCEPT BY Sanjay Bandre MARKETING & OPERATIONS Kapil Girotra kapil@wfmmedia.com +91 9560925255 SUBSCRIPTION & CIRCULATION Devagya Behl support@wfmmedia.com +91 9871151112 Mukesh Kumar mukesh@wfmmedia.com +91 9560088995

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12 A Guide to Comprehensive Façade Design Saurabh Goenka, Senior Associate, S9ARCHITECTURE, New York 16 Significance of Waterproofing in Residential Properties Dr. Arup Gupta, General Manager, Head Construction Chemical R&D, Berger Paints India Ltd. 20 Zero Energy Buildings: Key to Sustainable, Human-Friendly Future Professor Stephen Lau, Design Research Director, LWK + PARTNERS 27 Façades for High-Performance Buildings Ashish K Jain, Partner - AEON Integrated Building, Design Consultants LLP 32 Façade NXT – an Initiative for the Sustainable Future S.N.Maanvizhi, Discipline Manager – Architect, L&T Technology Services Limited 37 Cracking the Myth of Solar Façade Cladding Mohamed Shamir Khader, Business Developer (India), WallVisionBV 44 Next Generation Façade Inspection Paul Mcdevitt, Managing Director, TÜV SÜD Building Advisory Service 48 Building Façade as Branding Vehicle

Karine Charlebois, Associate, Eckersley O’Callaghan 54 Face to Face Interview with Ar. Karan Grover, Principal Architect & Founding Director & Ar. Ishan Grover Design Director and Senior Associate, Karan Grover & Associates (KGA) 64 Cover Story

Shaping Tomorrow’s Façades 85 Industry Speaks Interview with Faraz Aqil, Managing Director, aluplast India Private Ltd 92 Project Watch Projects by Amit Khanna, Principal Architect, AKDA

Cover Image, Courtesy: Parag V Singal, Principal Architect, Parag Singal Architects

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EDITO NOTE R’S

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tabled the Union Budget for FY 2022-23 on 1st February. The budget is a forward-looking one, focusing on a long-term plan for the country with digitization, urban development, and sustainability at its core. It demonstrates a strong commitment to urban growth via sustainable living and better governance.

During the budget speech, to provide a boost to the ‘Housing for All’ mission, Sitharaman announced the completion of 80 lakh homes under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY). For this, Rs 48,000 crore is allocated under PMAY for urban and rural housing in FY23. This surely will boost affordable housing market.The move is very positive for the real estate sector and companies. Besides, Rs 60,000 crore was allocated under the Har Ghar Nal program. The demand for affordable housing has been increasing in the past few years. The government has also announced an outlay of Rs 20,000 crore toward Gati Shakti for integrated planning and coordinated implementation of infrastructure connectivity projects.

According to Ramesh Nair (CEO, India & Managing Director, Market Development, Asia, Colliers), the Union Budget 2022-23 is the government’s commitment on building affordable housing stock and urban growth. Rating the budget at 7/10, Dr. Niranjan Hiranandani, National Vice Chairman -NAREDCO and MD Hiranandani Group said that the budget is clearly about complementing macro-growth with micro-all-inclusive welfare, digital economy and fintech, tech-enabled development, energy transition, bolstering investment and climate action – which augurs well for the nation.

It is the need of the hour to focus on sustainability and energy efficiency for businesses and building infrastructures. We hope that the allocated funds will be used for projects to reduce carbon emissions and that the low-carbon development strategy will create new job possibilities in the country.

The January-February edition of the magazine is focusing on the future façade materials and technologies.. We spoke to many experts from the façade, real estate and architecture industry to know their views on ‘Future Facades’. The edition brings out an amalgamation of their thoughts, ideas and vision for the future, considering progress in material science, and technologies, along with various sophisticated tools used for energy analysis and sustainable designing.

Do go through the interesting articles and project, and let us know your feedback.

Wishing all our readers and other associates a successful and joyous 2022!

Renu Rajaram

renu@wfmmedia.com