ENGINEERS URGED TO ADAPT LATEST TECHNOLOGIES
IN BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
Shri Sharad Yadav, Minister of Consumer
Affairs, Food and Public Distribution has called upon professionals
and engineers to study the latest available options in construction
of buildings worldwide for their best possible adaptation in the
country. Speaking as Chief Guest at the inauguration of a Seminar
on "Revision of National Building Code of India" organised
by the Institution of Engineers (India), Delhi State Centre here
today, the Minister pointed out that a revolution had taken place
in the construction industry globally through appropriate mechanism
based on codes and regulations.
The Minister emphasised the need
for reviewing the building bye laws and building code for bringing
transparency in operation in the context of changing scenario
in building operations.Codes and standards should be promoted
in such a fashion that the local resource based planning is effective
and progressive. Building code has to ensure that the low cost
technologies are in no way inferior and the materials used are
worth the investment while building houses for the poor.It has
become imperative to have a re look at the national building code
to have a proper and well laid down standards, in construction
activity, the minister added.
The National Building Code of
India (NBC), formulated by the Bureau of Indian Standards, is
a single document which lays down comprehensively the requirements
for safety of buildings with regard to structural sufficiency,
fire protection norms, sanitation, materials, structural design
and construction, etc. It contains administrative regulations,
development control rules and general building requirements. BIS
has now taken up the mammoth exercise of revising the National
Building Code of India. This ambitious exercise shall involve
more than 150 experts and is to be completed over a period of
two years.
The two-day seminar is being attended
by more than 200 leading engineers, architects , building materials
manufacturers and administrators .
