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09. Go Green

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Fiber Optic Solar lighting: How to bring natural sunlight into a building?

Fiber optic is used not only for communications, Fiber optic based solar lighting solution transmits the light from a source through the fiber to a remote location.Many companies are now producing systems for capturing sunlight and transmitting it into the interior. With the growing popularity of high rise apartments and basements and subways, natural light […]

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Can we afford to ignore the Eco Challenge? Part 2

In the first part of this article we spoke about challenges in front of the ‘builder community’ today and why how we have built so far is certainly not the way to continue building. There are many other different ways of building. At BCIL and ZED Homes, for example, we have stopped completely the use […]

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Can we afford to ignore the Eco-Challenge? Part 1

Cities have become veritable omnivores, consuming everything that the countryside offers. Can we afford this anymore? The building industry holds the key to shifting the conversation. It was ironic. We were congregated at a hotel no more than 3 kilometers from Mylapore, a city in its time that flourished 3000 years ago, a city that […]

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Measures to make cities sustainable in the long term

Beyond the rating systems for green buildings, city administrators and urban planners have to look at very simple set of measures that they can implement by legislation. They should try securing voluntary compliance from end/users, as India has attempted, with public awareness campaigns that exhort the practice of energy-efficient management. Our experience in India has […]

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PMC struggles to handle trash crisis

With the city’s largest garbage processing plant at Uruli Devachi depot being under up-gradation, garbage is mounting up in the city in a fast pace. Post the Ganapati festival, the generation of wastes has increased to more than about 1,600 tonnes, out of which only 1000 metric tonne is being lifted. The garbage collection system […]

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