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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 …
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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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.
The Taloja Waste Management project coming up on 117 hectares in Mumbai has attracted 37 companies – 15 foreign and 22 Indian. There is also keen interest from foreign firms …
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 …
Sodexo, world leader in Quality of Daily Life Solutions, has announced that it has been chosen as the winning bidder for one contract of up to eight years to provide …
Passengers travelling in long distance will soon get respite from the clogged drains and stench from the toilets. The railway board recently announced र14.20crore for developing eco-friendly toilets for train …
A hotel made entirely of rubbish has recently been opened in the Spanish capital, Madrid. The walls of the Beach Garbage Hotel are covered with detritus deposited by the tide …
Taiwan has a rather musical way of dealing with its residential waste. Much like an ice-cream van, the garbage trucks tinkle a tune to alert you of their presence! Residents …
The filth filled, stench-emitting Sabarmati river will now turn into a shopping and entertainment zone on the pattern of the Seine riverfront of Paris. French architect Bernard Kohn, who lived …
