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Bold Solutions: Sustainable material and green Infrastructure

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The world will have to invest $90 trillion in sustainable infrastructure by 2030, according to estimates by The New Climate Economy.

OVERVIEW

Sustainable infrastructure which includes equipment’s and systems that are designed to meet the population’s essential service needs — like roads, bridges, communications network, hydroelectric power stations, etc. — based on all-round sustainable principles, is a must in the fight against climate change. This means the infrastructure is environmentally friendly from end to end, and that includes economic, financial, social and institutional factors. Physical infrastructure provides the foundation for human society and economic activity and represents the greatest use of raw and processed materials by weight. Source: IDB, https://www.iberdrola.com/sustainability/sustainable-infrastructure

It is seen that replacing old urban infrastructure for new modern and sustainable elements will make cities more inhabitable and inclusive. The investments are crucial not only to renew old equipment in developed countries and bring them in sync with the fight against climate change, but also to bolster green economic growth in emerging markets and developing countries. This would require a multi-trillion-dollar investment worldwide over the next decade. But if we do things right, it would also see us on the road to economic growth.

UN has highlighted that 70% of all greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) come from urban areas, most of which are poorly designed, lacking in public transport and consume vast amounts of energy.

Need of the Hour

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity. The 17 SDGs are integrated—they recognize that action in one area will affect outcomes in others, and that development must balance social, economic and environmental sustainability.

Among the SDGs, SDG 9 explicitly refers to building resilient infrastructure. However, all the goals are underpinned by infrastructure development. “Infrastructure is really at the center of the delivery of them SDGs,” says Virginie Marchal, senior policy analyst in the OECD’s Environment Directorate.

Materials and structures are the backbone of our societies’ health, economic growth, resilience and social progress and equity, providing shelter and mobility in a rapidly changing world. But with the challenges of climate change and diminishing natural resources, they are becoming stressed and strained.

It can be understood that there is need for developing science-enabled engineering innovations from the nano to the macroscale, new and improved sustainable material systems that enhance our society’s resilience to climate change and preserve our ecological infrastructure and biodiversity. Some of the solutions include pioneering bold approaches to enhance resilience and sustainability of materials and structures that will shift the paradigm of traditional infrastructure to face the perils of global warming.

Way to Bold Solutions

Globally businesses, cities, regions, investors are working towards building a healthy, resilient, zero carbon recovery that prevents future threats, creates decent jobs, and unlocks inclusive, sustainable growth. The objective is to build momentum around the shift to a decarbonized economy.

There is need for reducing the carbon footprint of materials and structures by pioneering bold solutions for traditional and new materials, including cement-based, polymer-based and bio-inspired with enhanced durability, resilience and reduced environmental impacts. Concrete, sand, and other natural minerals make up the greatest tonnage for infrastructure applications. Following these are metals, primarily steel, but increasingly aluminum for some weight-sensitive applications. Largely used sustainable material in the infrastructure sector is bamboo.

The upcoming webinar “Bold Solutions: Sustainable material and green Infrastructure” will feature a panel of renowned business leaders from different sectors to explore how companies can identify and build the right value for their business with identifying and using the green infrastructure and sustainable materials and way to zero plan. The round table discussions will analyze all the enablers and growth opportunities, along with potential challenges with regards to sustainable materials adoption.

Speakers

Lubaina Rangwala
Associate Director, Urban Development and Resilience with the Sustainable Cities and Transport
WRI India
Moderator

Lubaina Rangwala, Associate Director, Urban Development and Resilience with the Sustainable Cities and Transport, WRI India

Lubaina is Associate Director, Urban Development and Resilience with the Sustainable Cities and Transport team at WRI India. She has been associated with the institute for nine years. Her current work focuses on green infrastructure projects, nature-based solutions to address long-term climate risk in Indian cities, and working with vulnerable communities to build their resilience capacities. She is currently involved in climate action plans, disaster management and flood mitigation measures in Indian cities.

At WRI, Lubaina led the development of a global tool called the Urban Community Resilience Assessment, and continues to address issues of gender, equity, diversity and inclusion in city resilience plans. She started her career as a researcher and visiting lecturer at two architecture schools in Mumbai. She worked with the KRVIA design cell on projects affiliated with the Mumbai Transformation Support Unit (MTSU) and the World Bank. During her short stint at the City of Emeryville, California, USA she helped set up the online building approvals portal, and worked with the City of Berkeley on local economic development strategies in low-income neighborhoods of South Berkeley.

Lubaina is an Urban Planner and Architect from Mumbai, with over 14 years of work experience in India and the United States. She earned her undergraduate degree in architecture from the Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture (KRVIA), Mumbai University, and a dual master’s in Architecture and City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley, USA, with a focus on housing, community, and economic development.

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Dr Mahesh Varma
Managing Director
Nandadeep Designers and Valuers

Dr Mahesh Varma, Managing Director, Nandadeep Designers and Valuers

Dr. Mahesh Varma is a structural engineer by profession. He is director of Nanadadeep Designers and Valuers Pvt. Ltd. (NDVPL) and Hone Structural Health monitoring (India) Pvt Ltd. He is passionate about reinvention of ancient construction technology. Present structures constructed using RCC and steel have a typical life expectancy of 30 to 50 years, whereas the ancient structures constructed using compression topology are serving for many centuries and it is a high time to revisit and reconsider the ancient construction technology of compression topology (tension free structures). Dr. Mahesh Varma has designed and executed many residential, institutional and monumental structures using Arch, Vault, and Dome (AVD) with eminent hydraulic lime and stone and bricks. His company is registered in Limca Books of record for designing the world’s largest span masonry dome. He did his civil engineering in 1997 from the Govt College of Engineering Aurangabad followed by his masters and PhD (Masonry domes) from IIT Bombay.
He developed a method, FETLA (Finite Element Thrust Line Analysis) and post, for structural analysis of masonry domes during his PhD. Further, he did his post-doctorate from Politecnico di Milano on analysis of cracked masonry arches and
domes. He has also contributed to theoretical and practical research through his many published research in International Journals of repute. He has also contributed a chapter on retrofitting of masonry structures in the book ‘Structural rehabilitation and retrofitting- ASTR’.
Apart from structural engineering experience for new construction, he has worked for many projects in India and abroad for structural health monitoring (SHM) – like vibration, crack and deflection monitoring under Hone structural health
monitoring (India) Pvt Ltd. His SHM project on stone masonry bridge in collaboration with IIT Bombay and Politecnico di Milano has led to publication in the well-known journal Construction and Building Material.
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B R Chakor
Founder
B.R. Consultant

B R Chakor, Founder, B.R. Consultant

Graduated in civil Engineering from university of Poona as student of College of Engineering Pune in 1983.

Worked  as Design engineer for two years with a private architect’s firm.In the year 1986 started a firm “B.R. CONSULTANT” and “B.R. CONSTRUCTION” with consulting and contracting both. From 1994 continued consulting only. Executed many professional college campuses like Engineering, Medical & Agricultural as architectural & structural  consultant. Public projects Like  Sangamner Bus Port Top Ten Imperial commercial buildings are our credentials. Worked in Ahmednagar,Nasik, Pune & Aurangabad District. Structural grid architectural planning is our speciality. Member of Institute of Engineering(I),  Institute of Valuers, Association of consulting Engineers(I) & Practicing Valuers Association of India.

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Pramod Chaugule
Principal Architect
STUDIO888 architects 

Pramod Chaugule, Principal Architect, STUDIO888 architects

 

  • WON AICA GOLD AWARD FOR EXCELLANCE IN ARCHITECTURE 2014
  • RECOGNISED AS A NOTE WORTHY PROFESSIONAL BY RACHANA SANSAD 2015
  • EXCELLENCE IN PROFESION BY Indian Institute of Architectes in MAHACON 2016
  • REPRESENTED NASIK DISTRICT FOR CRICKET AND BADMINTON and RECENTLY THE IIA MAHARASHTRA IN CRICKET,
  • RECEIVER OF – VASUNDHARA MITRA PURASKAR BY KIRLOSKAR COMPANY, 2012
  • RECEIVER OF 8TH , 9TH, 10TH, and 11TH  STATE LEVEL AWARD IN INDIVIDUAL & ARCHITECTS  CATEGORY ORGANISED THROUGH MAHARASHTRA ENERGY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY(MEDA)
  1. R.S. BERI MEMORIAL GREEN BUILDING AWARD BY IIA, KOLHAPUR
  • RECEIVER OF  SANGLI  BHUSHAN – DAILY  LOKMAT, 2009, BHILAWADI BHUSHAN- 2015,
  • STATE LEVEL  SHREE PURASKAR (VAASTU VISHARAD), 2008
  • RECEIVER OF GIANT BHUSHAN, 2006
  • RECIEVER OF  GOLD  MEDAL  FROM  SHREE CHARUKIRTI  MAHASWAMIJEE, 2000
  • RECEIVED APRECIATION  FROM  JAGATGURU  SHANKARACHARYA  MAHASWAMIJEE, 2008
  • DR . D. K . GOSAVI “DONATE BLOOD SAVE  LIFE”  AWARD, 2007
  • BEST PRESIDENT AWARD (ENGINEERS & ARCHITECTS ASSOCIATION FOR 2008).
  • RECEIVED AWARD FOR FIRST GRIHA FOUR STAR RATED GREEN CAMPUS FOR POLICE TRAINING SCHOOL, TURCHI, TASGAON, SANGLI, 2010
  • APRECIATION FROM  PRESIDENT  OF  INDIA  ON  TWO  OCCASIONS, 2008 & 2009
  • Récipient of CHATRAPATI SHIVAJI MAHARAJ « VANASHREE » PURSKAR BY MAHARASHTRA GOVT.
  • JURY MEMBER FOR THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE AT DYP UNIVERSITY, AKURDI, PUNE
  • MAHESH BHUSHAN PURASKAR 2017
  • LATTE EDUCATION SOCIETY SANGLI – DIRECTOR 2017
  • JURY MEMBER  FOR  30th  JK   AYA   AWARDS 2021

 

DONATED BLOOD/PLATELETS FOR  77 TIMES TILL DATE

  • STRONGLY WORKING THROUGH HIS PROFESSION & NGO’s FOR “GREEN BUILDINGS” & Eco friendly structures for the GLOBAL WARMING initiative, Like 25  crore  liters  rain  water  harvesting  per year  and  50  lacs  liters  per  day  water  recycling  through  various  projects. PASSIONATE of HABITATS DESIGNING FOR HUMAN BEINGS.
  • GREEN BUILDING EVAUATOR FOR GRIHA, TERI, NEWDELHI.
  • WORKED ON  MANY  PROJECTS  IN A VARIETY  OF  AVENUES  IN  THE  FIELD  OF  ARCHITETURE  WHICH  HAS  GOT  USERS APRECIATION AND MUCH INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION.  ONE OF THE MOST APPRECIATED PROJECTS IS THE POLICE TRAINING SCHOOL AT TURCHI, TASGAON. A  FIRST  4  STAR  RATED  first ever  GREEN  CAMPUS  IN  INDIA  FOR  ANY  GOVERNMENT
  • WORKED ON SOCIAL PROJECTS LIKE TEMPLES, SCHOOLS, ORPHANAGE HOMES, OLD-AGE HOMES, And PUBLIC GARDENS & GREEN PARKS AS SOCIAL CONTRIBUTION.
  • ATTENDED 1000 plus SEMINARS/ WORKSHOPS & PRESENTATIONS IN DIFFERENT CITIES IN INDIA LIKE CHENNAI, BANGLORE, PUNE, MUMBAI, PATNA, DELHI, JALANDER, SRINAGAR & CITIES AROUND THE WORLD LIKE SINGAPORE, TOKYO, BEIJING, Kuala LumpuR. AND WRITTEN @ 500 PLUS ARTICLES IN MAGAZINES, NEWS PAPERS AND SOVENIORS,
  • WALKED FROM  SANGLI  TO  HUBLI  FOR  INTERNATIONAL PEACE  CONFERENCE,

TOTAL 210 KMS IN 5 DAYS.

HAPPILY MARRIED TO KANCHAN HOUSE WIFE  AND   BLESSED WITH

A SON MOHIT, B.ARCH. M.ARCH (SPAIN) AND DAUGHTER TANVI, M.A. (Econ).

STAYING at JIVHALA WITH 88 YEAR OLD SATISFIED AND ENTHUSIAT FATHER, RETIRED ENGINEER SHRI. B. D. CHAUGULE & LOVING MOTHER,78YEAR OLD MRS. HEMLATA CHAUGULE.

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Sanjeev Karpe
Founder Director
Konkan Bamboo & Cane Development Centre (KONBAC), Sindhudurg, Maharashtra

Sanjay Patil
Founder Architect
Environ planner

Sanjay Patil, Founder Architect, Environ Planners

The principal architect of the firm has graduated from Sir J.J. College of architecture.  The firm was established in 1981 in Nashik as ‘Environ Planners’ by ‘Ar. Sanjay M. Patil’. Environ planners is an architectural firm has always worked towards environment conscious architecture seeking inspiration from the nature and the tradition. Respecting nature has always
been an integral element of the firm’s approach. The need of the hour being sustainable development, the firm’s efforts is consciously directed towards application of energy efficient principles to the building design.
The firm has always over the years has designed for various institutional, industrial, residential, projects with each of those holding their own distinctive identity. The approach, to craft an environment together has expressed the ability to integrate landscape (symbolizing nature) with the built environment, which amalgamates interior and exterior to create a series of interactive spaces.
The firm takes up the inspiration from vernacular architecture and fuse with modern technology to get the desired results, where simplicity prevails and nest with the nature.
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Agenda

15:25 – 15:30 Opening Remarks by EMCEE
15.30 – 15.40 Keynote Address
15.40 – 16.25 Panel Discussion: Bold Solutions: Sustainable material and green Infrastructure
The session will witness discussion among 4-5 speakers on the below points.Key Discussion Points-

  • Energy transition and decarbonisation landscape for India Inc.
  • Future durable building materials inspired from ancient technologies
  • Bio-inspired design of modern architected materials
  • Way to quieter, cleaner future
  • Structural health monitoring and intelligent structures
  • Sustainable materials for infrastructure – bamboo, concrete, steel and more
16.45 – 16:50 Closing Remarks by EMCEE


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