Ramanjeet Singh Walia is a Civil Engineer and has worked as a chief concrete technologist for the last 18 years. He has been awarded by the Indian concrete institute as an Outstanding young concrete engineer. He is a member of the Indian Concrete Institute and concrete engineers and a member of the Indian Institute of professional civil engineers.
He has worked in many projects like DMRC and some high rise building like the Common wealth Games Village. He has worked on a lot of value added concrete products like Ultra High Performance concrete (UHPC) which does not require steel reinforcement, light weight concrete, decorative concrete etc. He spoke to us about sustainable materials that help reduce carbon footprint.
Time stamps:
01:35 What is carbon footprint?
02:48 How is construction responsible towards carbon emissions?
04:15 Is it the construction process or the materials we are using to build that contribute to carbon emissions?
06:07 What is COP declaration?
07:04 Globally, where does India rank?
07:48 How to reduce carbon footprint in construction?
08:18 Which are the highest contributing materials to carbon footprint?
09:06 Any alternative/ cementitious products to reduce carbon footprint?
11:05 Are premix bags/ mortars/ plasters useful?
11:33 Any alternate for Steel?
12:48 Conventional bricks substitutes?
13:37 Substitute for Timber/ natural wood?
16:48 Sustainable way to process construction demolition waste?
18:26 Any other recyclable materials? can we save water?
19:33 Curing sheet to save water and curing compounds
20:30 How can we reduce time for construction?
22:39 Can use Concrete surface to look like granite, no need for laying stone later, there is stamp concrete also
23:44 Building made in Gurgaon in white cement!
24:22 Shuttering material used in it was in cardboard followed by new age formwork
26:02 There are skim coats to replace paints now
Ramanjeet S Walia's Contact details:
Linkedin: / er-ramanjeet-singh-wal...
5 окт 2024
