Mohit Kapoor, Head, PEB Steel Building Solutions, APL Apollo Tubes Ltd, shares the importance of steel tubes in warehousing and construction sector. Vertical expansion is only way out to cater to the population’s increasing demand of residential-commercial-industrial space.
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What are the construction materials that can be used to lessen environmental impact in high-rise building projects?
Developmental plans initiated without considering the environmental impact tend to lose their social justification, and fail to achieve the project’s long-term commercially feasible outcome. The best part about any technology is the scope of upgradation and innovation, and the construction industry, one of the largest human activities on this planet, needs to pay due attention to thinking out of the box for introducing path-breaking solutions. Steel tubes are among the most versatile construction materials providing multi-dimensional solutions of faster execution, economical construction, lower maintenance, safer designs, and environment friendly recyclable products sustainable in all aspects. Much superior strength, higher ductility and loading capacity for better seismic code compliance define the best in-class performance of Steel Tubes on all technical parameters, in addition to effective commercial benefits such as 20-50 per cent faster construction, additional carpet area, clearer height and lower finance cost resulting in advanced Cash Flow and much better IRR.
How can the construction industry reduce its carbon footprint, while maintaining the pace of high-rise building construction?
Though we are the world’s fifth largest economy, the sector is the fourth largest worldwide contributor in carbon emissions. The construction industry contributes to 16 per cent of overall pollution, in addition to rigorous efforts underway in many innovations across raw materials and deployment of carbon neutral machineries at construction sites, various national and international research shows usage of steel tubes can reduce almost 60 per cent carbon emission from the construction sector.
How does modular construction contribute to sustainability goals and pollution reduction?
Plug and play solution of steel tubes is best suited for fast-track execution and economically viable outcomes in construction sector for multiple reasons like no pollution, least water usage, reduced wastage of raw materials, time bound completion of projects and mitigation of on-site hazardous events.
How does high-rise construction incorporate water-efficient systems and technologies?
Steel tubes frame design of building requires almost negligible amount of water usage during construction activities and no ground water absorption during entire lifetime of building compared to a conventional concrete based structure.
