Right Orientation: Where building meets efficiency, comfort, and sustainability
The right orientation of a building is crucial for energy efficiency, natural ventilation, maximizing daylight, and reduction of air conditioning load.
Importance of (PHE) Public Health Engineering and Life Safety Systems in Indian Buildings
When it comes to construction and real estate development in India, it’s not just about aesthetics and functionality; it’s also about safety and well-being. Public Health Engineering (PHE) and Life Safety Systems play a pivotal role in ensuring that buildings are not just structures but safe havens for occupants. In this blog, we’ll explore what PHE engineering is, what Life Safety Systems entail, and why they are indispensable in the Indian context.
When Buildings and Biology Align: Shading and Daylight
Human beings are a complex system of hormones, moods, and delicate chemical and physical balance. Raise the temperature to even 2 degrees Celsius and you’re sick. Go through two bad days of sleeping and you get headaches.
How Paint Affects Heat Gain In Buildings
The act of selecting the ideal color palette for your building may initially appear as a decision rooted solely in aesthetics, but it can have a significant financial impact. The color you choose for your walls can greatly affect your comfort and energy bills.
Same Comfort, Less Wastage: Efficient Fixtures
One of the jobs of technology is to make things efficient, and it is generally successful at its job. But people take time to adapt to new technology usually because they aren’t aware of it. With advances in sanitary fixtures, we get the same level of comfort while dramatically reducing water usage and wastage. This is one area where we can be mindful of when it comes to water conservation.
Making India Fireproof: Importance of Fire Engineering
Both commercial and residential buildings built without the proper installation of fire hazard measures are at risk of such accidents. We can’t take this lightly; this must be addressed on a wide scale. Due to a lack of awareness and the attitude of “this won’t happen to me”, people don’t just put their properties and residents at risk, but they also endanger others around them.
SuDS: India’s answer to clogged and closed box drains
Cities have had a turbulent engagement with water throughout history. Our greatest urban centers owe their very existence to the harbors, rivers, and drinking water sources that provided inspiration for development and the means for economic prosperity. Yet, despite our instinctive attraction to water, we have all too often exploited the relationship by confining it, degrading it, and largely ignoring it.
Ignorance Costs you Rs. 5.5 Crores!
Most buildings in India are not upgraded since last couple of decades but the technology has evolved rapidly. If you own such a building, chances are that you paid few extra Crores for ignorance. Read it and save crores in Capex
Building Mileage Kitna Deti Hai?
If the building is not made from a foundation of sustainable design and net-zero principles, keeping in mind the public health, comfort, biophilic principles, and occupant-centric design, then it will become outdated as public awareness increases.
ONE WATT Building Challenge
Think of a commercial office building with an electrical demand load of only one watt per square foot. Traditionally, this is impossible to even conceptualize.