800 Sq Ft For 10 Lakhs.. I I T Civil Madras Achievment

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[color=#808080]IIT-Madras Civil Engineers Promise 800 Sq.Ft, 2 BHK House For Only 10 Lakh[/color]
[color=#808080]Engineers at the Indian Institute Of Technology, Madras were super busy for about a d[/color][color=#808080]ecade to bring your 2 BHK dreams to reality. The new construction method developed by IIT-M engineers will bring down the costs drastically down - so down that a 2 BHK, 800 Sq.ft house will cost you only Rs. 10 lakh. We can already see smile on your face; unless you're into construction business. The engineers at IIT-M's Civil Engineering department have demonstrated their technology by constructing a two-story building using GFRG (glass fibre reinforced gypsum) panels.

The demo house constructed entirely within the IIT Madras campus comprises of four flats, with two on each floor. The research team says that their way of constructing is not only budget-free but also is quite less time consuming over traditional methods. The two storey building too kess than a month's time to construct - amazing, isn't it?
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Devdas Menon, Professor in Department of Civil Engineering - IIT Madras, explains how they came about building a flat that could create affordable housing for masses.

India has a severe housing shortage problem, which is well known. In particular, there is a need to address the shelter needs of the lower income groups and their aspirations. The challenge is to make these aspirations a reality, by providing for an affordable solution. Ideally, the solution should be scalable - to reach the masses - and should be quickly built, and at the same time addresses issues of sustainability and quality. Clearly, we need a 'game changer' in the housing industry. (In pics: the six- lakh home from IIT Madras)

We believe that the technology proposed by IIT Madras, and demonstrated recently by the construction of the 'GFRG demo building', has the potential to meet this challenge of providing rapid affordable mass housing.
Advantages over conventional buildings:

- High speed of construction: GFRG demo building with four flats in two storeys (total 1981 sq.ft.) built within a month!
- Less built-up area for the same carpet area: wall panels are only 124mm thick.
- Less embodied energy and carbon footprint: significant reduction in use of cement, sand, steel and water; recycling of industrial waste gypsum.
- Lower cost of structure: savings in materials; no plastering.
- Lower building weight (panels weigh only 43 kg/m2), contributing to savings in foundation and reduction in design for earthquake forces, particularly in multi-storeyed construction.
- Buildings up to 8-10 storeys can be designed using this load-bearing system, without the need for beams and columns.
- Excellent finishes of prefabricated GFRG panels - used for all the walls, floors and staircases, with minimal embedded concrete: no need for additional plastering.

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[cherlapalli_jailer]

2Bed room 800 SFT is too less

but good job by techies

ATB

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GP

[saisankart]

Good job by IIT students!!! Hope they succeed by implementing their idea.

[babu_andrew]

[ATOM]

good job by Tamil folks ...

veellani chusi manam chala nerchukovali vayya ...politics, education, creative fields ...etc endulo ayina konchem self talent ne nammukuntaru .....

hope their idea should inspire other Indians ....