Choosing construction technologies
'The Choice is simple Sustainable development, unsustainable
development or no development at all.'
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ROI (Return on Investment) is easily understood even by stakeholders with no accounting background. The following required Excel skills are intuitive and can easily be learnt. It is expected that you are acquainted as how to work out the Present Value using Excel .
Sandy Halliday, Build Green 1990."
National Perspective
Continuing with the conventional constructional technologies for the mass housing is like burning candle from
both sides. It is unsafe, polluting, wasteful and may be.... undignified for our times.
The negatives multiply in case of high
rise construction wherein it is akin to burning candle from all ends. It is the
root cause of the poor quality, Project Time + Cost overruns and most
tragic of them all most fatal accidents. Indian construction Industry (?) can't
afford to continue it for mass construction projects.
Planetary Perspective
With the above perspective, achieving mission of Housing for all by 2022 through the present industry
practices is likely to be disastrous not only for us but for the whole planet
as well. For achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it is imperative that we quickly adopt new and not so new technologies.
BMTPC (Building Materials And Technology Promotion Council) has published a Directory on Emerging Technologies [i] potential of which is mostly unexploited. Why we are unable to exploit work of such great value?
The cause may lie in the basics… For about a
generation now, Civil Engineering unlike other branches of Engineering at IITs
and other prestigious institutes have not succeeded to draw the best talent. Many
of the good intentioned bright young Civil Engineers manage to stay away from
the profession by diverging into more attractive professions. The remaining
good lot preferring structural design is often disappointed by poor salaries.
To state that India lacks quality Civil
Engineers is an understatement…On the top of it an average builder employs supervisors at
site and civil engineers on paper. A visual look of most housing projects especially
in NCR ( National Capital Region- Delhi) would vouch for this.
The purpose of this blog though is not analyse
and lament the industry but to highlight the opportunities that lie in
deploying a good team of professionals which would essentially include an
Architect, MEP,Structural and Civil engineer.
FOCUS: Deciding on new construction technology with Financial Simulation.
A word of caution : All outputs are as good as the inputs and processes. The process involves expert judgement. The quantitative analysis should be preceded by qualitative analysis.
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ROIs Using Traditional and Improved Shuttering
ROI (Return on Investment) is easily understood even by stakeholders with no accounting background. The following required Excel skills are intuitive and can easily be learnt. It is expected that you are acquainted as how to work out the Present Value using Excel .
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