As the population increases in India, so does the demand for faster construction and lighter building materials. One of the most appropriate technologies for the building envelope involves walls made with hollow clay bricks or blocks, used for their characteristics such as high durability and excellent fire, thermal and sound insulation.

Solid waste management (SWM) is becoming an area of acute concern in India. A recent report submitted to the National Green Tribunal by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF) revealed that nearly 76 per cent of all cities indiscriminately dump their solid waste in violation of the rules, which includes burning it in the open

Munich, GERMANY – The Pigments & Additives division of global chemical company Huntsman today announced the forthcoming launch of the GRANUMAT™ 4.0 Color Synthesizer – an advanced pigment metering solution designed to make the manufacture of colored concrete smarter, quicker and more efficient1.

The cliché,, 'Water, water, everywhere, not a drop to drink', is more often than not true in today's world. The silver lining, though, is that water, once treated, can be reused for industrial and domestic purposes.

In three days, you will be able to get an experience of what driving on Bangalore roads in the near future will be like. The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has sanctioned a pilot project to develop Park House Road in front of Karnataka Public Services Commission office, behind Vidhana Soudha, into a high-quality concrete road.

Top' matters are gaining importance in the construction of buildings, and trending towards newer preferences. Change is in the air in building construction. Most noticeable is the transformation at the top, in the growing demand for "different" sorts of roofing.

In the next in a series of features showcasing building materials, Anomitra Chakravarty discusses varieties of wood-plastic composites and their applications in the building and construction sector. When wood product companies embarked on a voyage to search for a material that would be an independent material by itself when combined with wood, they zeroed in

The roof is no longer just an appendage of a building; many a time, it is its crowning glory. Thus, it is no surprise that roofing technologies have metamorphosed in recent years.

Cement paints used for painting external surfaces of walls are not fully resistant to algae and fungus.