Deepak Bansal

GOI · HOUSING

India is the most populous country in the world, having a population of 1.42 billion in 2022. It is urbanizing rapidly, with the present urbanization level at about 35%, which is expected to reach about 40% by 2030. There was an estimated demand of 11.22 million homes in urban India in 2017, of which 95% was in the affordable housing sector. This d...

Buildings are demolished, when they outlived their service life, become structurally/functionally unfit, or have been built illegally. In India, an RCC framed, 40-storied high-rise building, with a built-up area of about 75,000 sqm, built without relevant approvals along with lots of violations of building bye-laws, has been demolished. There is no...

Buildings consume about 30–40% of total primary energy and release 40% of Green House Gases annually. Energy is required in all stages of buildings i.e. construction or pre-operation and operations & maintenance stages. In conventional buildings, the share of operational energy is high, due to their longer service life span. The % of operating and...

Pandemic “COVID 19” is affecting almost all the countries across the globe. This spread through body fluids, hence people are advised to follow social distancing. As a result, most of the people are staying at homes and not visiting their places of work, markets, restaurants, public places, etc., resulting in slowing down of economy. Many people ha...

There has been a continuous increase in GHGs in the atmosphere due to massive development, in which construction sector plays a major role. It is estimated that building construction, operation and demolition consumes about 30–40% of primary energy and release about 40% of GHGs globally. There have been many guidelines, protocols, directives to red...

Embodied energy and cost of construction of any building depends upon the consumption of resources, more specifically construction materials. In housing clusters, the spaces provided for horizontal and vertical circulation of occupants such as corridors and contribute in the built-up area of individual unit without any increase in the usable/carpet...

There has been a good deal of discussion over the most sustainable model for development of housing in India. Planners discuss the advantages of low-rise versus high-rise development in terms of energy and cost efficiency. Shortage and high cost of land has been a justification for high-rise development. In this paper, mixed housing (EWS, LIG, MIG,...

Building construction industry is one of the prominent sectors of the economy, which is responsible for rapid depletion of natural resources and for increased primary energy uses. Building construction process and production of construction materials consume a significant amount of energy and releases GHGs, which lead to global warming. South Asian...

The sustainable urban habitat should cater to the economic prosperity, community needs, social security and environmental awareness of the population while maintaining the human comfort and biodiversity. The resource thirsty urban lifestyles put a stress on non-renewable sources of water, energy, forests- flora and fauna and land. India has geograp...

An attempt has been made in this paper, to quantify the EEV of single storied house up to 50 sqm of plinth area, as Housing and Urban Development Corporation Limited (HUDCO) has designed/constructed hundreds of this type of houses in the country. The specifications used in the typology of the house taken in this paper are : strip footing in brick m...

The Indian masonry design standard (IS 1905-1987) does not deal with interlocking block masonry, hence does not prescribe the design values for this masonry like basic compressive stress, tensile stress & shear stress.However the same code recognizes other types of masonry and recommends that a prism test of different masonry may be done and these...

The Indian masonry design standard (IS 1905-1987) does not deal with interlocking block masonry, hence does not prescribe the design values for this masonry like basic compressive stress, tensile stress & shear stress. However the same code recognizes other types of masonry and recommends that a prism test of different masonry may be done and these...

It is believed that about 30 % of Energy is used in construction activities alone, and building construction constitutes major part of all construction activities. Now the emphasis is towards construction of Green buildings with the objective of minimizing the uses of energy in building in terms of Embodied energy and maintenance/operational energy...

This paper is motivated by urgent need to identify, innovative technologies to supplement age-old concrete and brick & mortar based construction for masonry work. Current times require technologies which are sustainable in terms of one or more of the following parameters i.e. use of locally available resources – material & manpower, cost effectiven...