According to a recent report by the World Resources Institute, India is one of the 17 countries facing extremely high-water stress. Groundwater has been declining at an alarming rate in India, which is expected to surpass China as the world’s most populous country in less than a decade. More than a third of India’s population […]
The term ‘gardening’ is no longer restricted to suburbs or public parks/places. The idea of creating small gardens inside homes is getting popularized in urban areas. You will witness a lot of individuals buying different items to create a garden in their homes. If you consider yourself as one of them and is ready to […]
Constructing a dream home is not an easy task. We always have to think a lot about it for the sake of generations to come. A baby is the most beautiful bundle of joy which cannot be replaced with any happiness in the world, let’s get a few ideas of how you can fabricate an […]
buy priligy online usa For several decades, women in India travel long distances to fetch fresh water. According to a One India One People report every year each woman living in rural India walks 14,000 km to fetch water. She balances multiple pots and vessels on her head. This in turn affects the health, school […]
Believed to cause 7 million premature deaths every year, air pollution is increasingly being recognized as a silent public health emergency. Perhaps, it is the most explicit illustration of how closely intertwined our health is to the state of our environment. Its particles have been found in human hearts and brains. It has been linked to asthma, alzheimers, dementia, cancer, and stroke as well as […]
Whilst most of the world is concerned about the ill effect of plastic bags, plastic bottles are a big concern too. Plastic bottles contain Bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical which has been proven to be highly risky to human health. It is often linked with health problems such cancer, neurological difficulties, early puberty in girls, […]
‘If you look at a building by Mies Vander Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are inspirational’ – David Chipperfield In today’s urban living, buying property satisfying all our needs is a herculean task and a dream come true. Despite shelling out a whole […]
An enchanting bookstore “straight out of a movie”, a beautiful wooden chapel in a forest, and an Yves Saint Laurent museum in Marrakech are few of the deserving winners of ArchDaily’s “Building of the Year Awards 2020”. Astoundingly, more than 95,000 people dropped their votes in 15 diverse categories, that highlighted a wide range of interventions, typologies, scale, material […]
No matter what the size of the project is, whether it’s a G+1 independent/individual home or a multi storied apartment project, a huge waste of resources go unnoticed or are often taken as an inevitable spill over. Well, this can be looked into and by making simple alterations to the project; you would be amazed […]
Did you know you have a choice when it comes to the positioning of solar panels installed on a building structure? Horizontal solar panels are too common, and it might come as a surprise to many that solar panels can be installed vertically. Yes, vertical solar panel installation is not only possible, to some extent, […]
Most people spend 85%of their time indoors — inside homes, offices, schools, colleges, commercial or industrial buildings. And another average time of 6 percent is spent inside an enclosed vehicle. But what is this doing to the health of the inhabitants? An increasing number of sick people with deadly diseases like cancers, heart diseases, diabetes, […]
With the relentless need for espousing more and more sustainable practices in building construction, ultimately to evade the corrosion happening to the environment, constructing “Green Buildings” have become indispensable. But sadly, in India, this concept is largely overlooked and hence they are still not a very common phenomenon in the country. Despite this coarse fact, […]
In the cost versus benefit of green buildings, the owner wins, for the initial expenses are more than offset by the energy, water, waste positive home For years,man has been exploiting nature in the hope of achieving a superior existence thereby promoting imbalances in the earth’s ecology. Rampant deforestation to accommodate an ever-increasing human population, […]
