Green initiatives from TMC

The Thiruvalla Municipal Corporation has joined hands with Mar Athanasios College for Advanced Studies (Macfast), Thiruvalla to implement waste management scheme within the municipal limits for next three years. The…

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Dust-free Mumbai!

With increasing number of respiratory diseases among school students, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has planned to make the metropolis dust free. The public works department of the Municipal Corporation…

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Steam Vapour to vanquish Superbug

Tests conducted by Texas-based Antimicrobial Test Laboratories (ATL) have demonstrated rapid destruction of the NDM-1 strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria using Advanced Vapour Technologies’ TANCS®-equipped steam vapour units. The studies…

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‘Come Clean India’

On a February Sunday, hundreds of students and volunteers armed with brooms and shovels spruced up the area around Mahatma Gandhi’s memorial at Rajghat at the launch of a think…

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Workshop on e-waste

MAIT (Manufacturers’ Association for Information Technology), the apex body representing India’s IT hardware, training and R&D service sectors, has called for renewed concentration on green technology. The MAIT ‘Make It…

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Facility Manager should be part of Architect’s team – A DEBATE

Maintenance has remained an issue with housekeeping and facility managers. They feel that most of the buildings they service are not maintenance friendly. Right from the glass facade to flooring material to washroom to MEP (Mechanical Electrical Plumbing) equipment designs and maintenance are areas of concerns for facility managers.

Architects and builders involve facility managers at different stages, but rarely at the beginning of the project. Since operations and maintenance of a facility depend on the design of the building and its services (MEP) to a great extent, consulting the service providers at the design stage itself can help immensely, feel FM heads.ds.

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Triveni Engineering Awarded

Frost & Sullivan has honoured Triveni Engineering & Industries Ltd. with the 2010 Growth Excellence Award in the Indian Water and Wastewater Treatment Market. Triveni has executed unique projects for…

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