Constro 2009, the country’s biggest international exhibition on construction machinery, materials, methods and projects organised by Pune Construction Engineering Research Foundation (PCERF) will feature innovative and eco friendly green houses of tomorrow. The exhibition will be held in the city from December 2 to 6.

Addrerssing newspersons, K P Baney, president of PCERF, Naren Kothari, honarary secretary, PCERF and J P Shroff, chairman of Constro 2009, said that the Green House prototypes would have eco friendly features like mud tiles flooring, water based internal and external paints, fly ash bricks, UPVC doors and windows, cane furniture, bamboo chik blinds, energy saver CFL fittings, roof thermal resistance chemicals, solar water heating systems, solar lamps, solar geysers, solar cookers.

The novel house is being developed by R B Chapalkar and the same will be fully functional at the exhibition for display.

As a follow up to the symposium on "Bamboo as a versatile material in Building Construction for Structural and architectural applications organised by PCERF in March a showcase house built by using bamboo will also be displayed on the occasion."

All these projects and prototypes will be in line with Constro 2009’s theme of “Green and eco-friendly materials for construction industry.

”Baney said that Constro 2009 will have Pune Municipal Corporation, Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation, Maharashtra Energy Development Agency, and National bamboo Mission as partners and sponsors for the exhibition

Naren Kothari also announced that the Indian Green Building Council will be organising a two-day seminar on Green Building Concepts in Pune. The objective of this conference would be to introduce various Green Building Concepts and expose participants to green building initiatives. Shroff said that the Constro organising committee has also decided to award the best designed Green stall for Stalls using eco friendly display materials, and conducting energy audits

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