Building construction is a highly resource intensive process, concerning use of materials, land, energy and water. 

The quantity of fresh water used in contemporary urban multi-storeyed residential #buildings is a fact that is comfortably not spoken about. 

The #water demand at material production as well as construction stage and the resultant embodied water in #constructions was found to be in the range of about 27,000 Litres / Sq m of total built-up area.   

Today, the cement industry represents one of the largest industries in the modern world making it the second-most used substance on #Earth after water. 

Because today’s cement-making process uses limestone, which consists of 50% CO2, the industry also creates massive amounts of carbon emissions — about as much as our cars.

#CarbonEmissions in construction can range from 280–776 kg CO2 equivalent per square meter depending on the material used.

The construction industry in India contributes around 10.5% to the country's #GDP. 

Every time we measure Growth in GDP, it would be prudent to also consider the increase in carbon emissions that we as a country add to the planet.

Search for alternative and recycled materials, multiple floor spaces and use of renewable energy are the responses by a fraternity of people against the perceived threat of materials, land and energy constraints respectively.

At Unified Intelligence (#Ui), we use plastic waste from the food packaging industry to build Structurally Integrated Panels (SIP) 

These SIPs are used to construct walls and roofs of buildings. 

Construction of buildings using our panels does not use even an ounce of water.

Highly engineered building solutions from #Ui have very high energy efficiency in terms of thermal loads.

Thankfully, there is a miniscule segment of #Architects and #Builders who are Open to use alternative materials for their construction.

We are increasing our foot prints.

But the impact on the environment would have been much higher if large construction companies like @larsentoubro @SPREINDIA
 @afcons @TataCompanies @oberoirealty @unitech
 #SomaBuilders #DLF #HCC #Godrej #Oberoi #MacroTech and others set the trend by using our alternate approach.

We are Hopeful.
#buildings #water