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Architecture firm Snøhetta has unveiled plans for a faceted office building in Norway, set to become the first in the country to produce more energy than it consumes. The diamond-shaped form maximises the building’s ability to function as a collector of solar energy, via a large area of photovoltaic panels on the south-facing angled roof. Solar cells, heat exchangers and heat pumps also produce electricity and heat for the building.
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WEF: Shaping the Future of Construction: Insights
This white paper presents the outcome of this work in the form of insight articles proposing innovative solutions on how to address the construction sector’s key challenges in the following fundamental challenge areas:
1. Project Delivery – Creating certainty of timely delivery and to budget, and generally improving the productivity of the construction sector
2. Life cycle Performance – Reducing the life cycle costs of assets and designing for re-use
3. Sustainability – Achieving carbon-neutral assets and reducing waste in the course of construction
4. Affordability – Creating high-quality, affordable infrastructure and housing
5. Disaster Resilience – Making infrastructure and buildings resilient to climate change and natural disasters
6. Flexibility, Liveability and Well-being – Creating infrastructure and buildings that improve the well-being of end-users
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WEF Shaping the Future of Construction: A Breakthrough in Mindset and Technology
Thirty measures are presented in the report, Shaping the Future of Construction: A Breakthrough in Mindset and Technology as part of a construction “industry transformation framework”. The report describes and promotes the effort needed by all stakeholders for the industry to fully realize its potential for change.
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| Shaping the Future of Construction: Inspiring innovators redefine the industry |
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3D-printed houses, automatically designed hospitals, prefabricated skyscrapers — once futuristic dreams are now a reality as described in the new report Shaping the Future of Construction: Inspiring innovators redefine the industry developed with the World Economic Forum. It showcases and analyses 10 Lighthouse innovation cases – prominent flagship projects as well as start-ups and pilot projects – that demonstrate the potential of innovation in construction and give a glimpse of the industry’s future.
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Relative to other industries, productivity in construction has stalled over the past 50 years. Technology was not making any fundamental advances, and companies remained averse to changing their traditional methods. Recently, however, transformative technological developments have emerged, and some pioneering firms have adopted them for current projects. These developments – 3D printing, building information modeling, wireless sensing and autonomous equipment, to name just a few – are already starting to turn traditional business models upside down.
24Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, have put a crystalline palace for music in the air, albeit on top of a large warehouse in Hamburg, with a hotel, apartments and car park added to the brief, at the cost of €860m.
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An Act to provide for the registration of architects and for matters connected therewith.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-third Year of the Republic of India as follows :-
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The National Building Code of India (NBC), a comprehensive building Code, is a national instrument providing guidelines for regulating the building construction activities across the country. It serves as a Model Code for adoption by all agencies involved in building construction works be they Public Works Departments, other government construction departments, local bodies or private construction agencies.
The Code was first published in 1970 at the instance of Planning Commission and then first revised in 1983. Thereafter three major amendments were issued to the 1983 version, two in 1987 and the third in 1997. The second revision of the Code was in 2005, to which two amendments were issued in 2015.
A Project for comprehensive revision of the Code was taken up under the aegis of the National Building Code Sectional Committee, CED 46 of BIS and its 22 expert Panels; involving around 1 000 experts. As a culmination of the Project, the revised Code has been brought out in 2016 as National Building Code of India 2016 reflecting the state-of-the-art and contemporary applicable international practices.
The comprehensive NBC 2016 contains 12 Parts some of which are further divided into Sections totalling 33 chapters (seeAnnex 1).
The Code has been published in two volumes containing all the Parts and Sections.
| The Publication | Price(Rs.) |
| Complete Code in Volume 1 and 2 (Parts 0 to 12 – all sections included) | 13,760 |
The publication is available from Sales Counter at BIS Headquarters as well as various Regional and Branch Offices of BIS.
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The Apple Campus, a spaceship-shaped headquarters in Cupertino, California, reportedly took 13,000 contractors and $5 billion to build, was one of the last major projects that Apple founder Steve Jobs worked on, and its construction has been held to the very same high standards as any other Apple product.
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[ I ] 28/09/ 2016TED Talk by Yuval Noah Hariri: The Future of HumanityDr Yuval Noah Harari explains how revolutions in technology and society will transform our bodies and minds.
