Uploaded on 2020-07-09 by sachin singh jadon

India is the origin of many construction materials and one of them is steel which has become a basic necessity in construction world. In the Indian context, can we term steel structures as eco-friendly? They come with some green parameters including the few cited above, but on overall count, steel buildings tend to fall short. The embodied energy consumed by steel buildings is high mainly due to steel itself and partly due to increased use of manufactured and transported materials. Construction demands lot of electricity, produces wastage or joining multiple materials may not get done well affecting occupancy performance. There could be more arguments against steel buildings, but in the urbanising India, there would be more of them in future, especially where factors weighing against them like cost and energy may appear less important than site value or project period. All that we can hope for is as steel buildings get more common, the steel technology gets greener. THE SOURCE OF THE IMAGE IS INTERNET