Tag Archives: sustainability

Every time you buy a Mabeo product, you bring a piece of rich African heritage home.  Imagine being able to bring a slice of Southern Africa inside your living room. Run your fingers on the table top and let it remind you of wild, roaming elephants. Place your hand on …

Surfaces form an essential element of our architectural structures. We bring you the latest developments and trends from this segment. “In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose”. – Augustus W. N. Pugin A surface is nevertheless not a small detail; it is of …

The rammed earth technique of building construction is making a comeback in the name of sustainability and environmental friendliness. Rammed earth basically works like the formwork of pouring a concrete wall. But instead of concrete, one uses soil from the site. The construction of an entire wall begins with a …

An Indian teenager has developed a building material that could make buildings more sustainable and benefit rural health. Eighteen year old Bisman Deu has added the title of budding inventor to her name. Deu, with her team partner Rayvin Thingnam have invented an environmentally friendly building material called ‘Green Wood’. …

Sustainability is the need of the hour in today’s environment conscious market.  Keeping up with this need, here’s a look at some eco-friendly surface products. Spurred on by environmentally conscious clients, architects and designers have started looking at sustainable alternatives to traditional materials. Due to their tactile nature, surfaces are …

An Italian project uses a forest for a facade and makes for a highly sustainable building. A new kind of architecture seems to be taking the world by storm, one that is highly self-conscious of the environment around it and is deeply concerned about sustainability and being green, sometimes literally. …

The first step towards building sustainably is making use of green materials in construction. At the heart of building sustainable structures is making use of sustainable materials in their construction. In their most basic sense, green materials include materials that are renewable and cause no harmful effects to the environment …

The world is going greener by the day and sustainable buildings are the future. We discover some of the greenest buildings in the world. The world today has become highly sensitive, and rightly so, to the energy crunch that is becoming a grave concern all over the globe. There has …

India is witnessing a paradigm shift in green building design and construction. The burgeoning importance of constructing buildings that are less detrimental to the environment has never been more pronounced than now. There is a worldwide trend towards building sustainably and reducing a building’s ecological impact not just in its …

Godrej Interio shows the way by achieving the BIFMA level Certification, setting a benchmark for the furniture industry. Godrej Interio, one of the key strategic business units of Godrej & Boyce, has committed resources and time towards furniture solutions, products and services that facilitate healthier, brighter and happier living. Each …