Senior Indian technologists expect a phenomenal rise in the use of steel plates in house-building in future
Posted on: 14/May/2014 3:59:39 PM
The senior technologists with expertise in Construction Engineering expect a phenomenal rise in the use of steel plates in the construction of residential buildings, commercial complexes, and other office establishments in future.
‘National Technology Day’ was celebrated at the CSIR (Council for Scientific & Industrial Research) Centre functioning under the central government at Taramani. Several programmes wre conducted on this occasion.
There was a seminar on earthquakes. Inaugural address was delivered by the CSIS Director at Taramani, Dr. Nagesh R. Iyer.
Participatin on this programme, senior scientists/construction specialists Dr. N. Gopalakrishnan & Dr. G. S. Palani shared the following observation:
There are various research activities on introduction of extra safety for future buildings from natural disasters such as earthquakes. There will be a necessity to increasingly use steel plates in housing construction. Another reason cited for this trend is the expected shortage of ingredients such as sand & cement.
A notable feature of using steel plates is that the house can be built faster. Also, steel plates can bear protect the construction from earthquakes.
A private company constructed a 10-storeyed building in Punjab in just 48 hours! An analysis of the structure revealed that the construction quality was excellent. These structured can bear earthquakes up to 6.5 Richter.
This trend has been taken up in construction sites all over India. Several construction businesses have shown interest and started adopting steel plate introduction. It isto be noted that the use of steel plate in construction is popular in China.
On the cost front, construction using steel plate is costlier by 1.5 times. However, this is expected to reduce gradually.
An important aspect is that thorough maintenance and overhauling has to be done in steel-plate based construction once in 5 years.
