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One component of the building construction that is mostly neglected or considered minor is insulation. Contrary to the common belief, it is actually critical to a building’s energy efficiency and plays a vital role in making it green. If insulation is not taken care of properly, large amounts of energy…

Lighting plays a vital role in making a building user friendly or otherwise. It’s a significant component of indoor environmental quality encompassing health, safety and comfort related issues of the building users. You certainly cannot consider a building green if it doesn’t use green lighting methods. Let us go a…

“Water, water, everywhere, and all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge. According to estimates, there are thousands of villages in India without potable drinking water. We have seen during last few days that the government is forced to transport water to…

Different parts of the world, including India, witnessed an exceptionally warm year 2024, with mercury going past 50 degrees at several locations. Experts believe that this is going to be the warmest year recorded ever, and scaring thing is that this may just be the beginning. That prompted us to…

Coming from a traditional Muslim society, she still dared to embrace the profession of architecture despite being a female; she loved breaking barriers and became a role model for so many in her lifetime. She liberated architectural geometry with the creation of highly expressive, sweeping fluid forms. Her designs involve…

“If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it, one step at a time.” -Marian Wright Edelman.   There was this article on bird deaths due to collision with buildings. It was a very fascinating article and the figures furnished were quite staggering, terrifying actually. Billions of…