be used as bricks and the women too earned a livelihood says yatinpuducherrybased trupti doshialso the chief coarchitect of sri aurobindo society says what we need is awareness knowhow and dohow truptis project gratitude villa was recently awarded by the union ministry for climate change environment and forests for its exemplary use of sustainable materials and technology the recognition from the government of indias green building rating department is a heartening acknowledgement of a model that smartly uses industrial waste to reduce close to 180 tonnes of co2 emissions at the construction level itself the material primarily used is fly ash procured from the neyveli lignite corporation which constituted 70 of their concrete and 70 of their bricks in doing this we solved two problems we reduced the large amount of fly ash lying around the industrial site that often affects the lung health of the neighbouring communities and we created a great construction alternative one that that has double the thermal resistance of a countryfired red brick which essentially means it delays the advent of heat that enters the space says truptitruptis auroma architecture has also effectively put to use ewaste such as keyboards and discarded mouses with steel in rcc slabs that are used for floors and roofs much of their steel itself is recycledmy definition of sustainability is closing the loop the waste of one process should become the wealth of another process says trupti the building you live in whether a home or an office has to outlive you weve only built 30 of the overall buildings that we will be having by 2030 if 70 of our buildings are yet to be built we better build them sustainably