Udupi Nirmithi Kendrain collaboration with Nivasaconducteda one day Technical Training programme for its Engineers on Low cost ecofriendly sustainable housing design
Nivasa is an ArchitecturalNon-Profitable Trust, working to enable humane and dignified housing conditions for the urban and rural poor, through design.
This training programme was an effort to create awareness on the methods of alternative BuildingTechnologies and its methods like Stabilized mud construction, strength of masonry walls,behavior of masonry vaults and domes, pre-fabricated roofing systems, lime pozzolana cements, earthquake resistant buildings, small scale brick burning, traditional architecture and recycling of construction and demolished wastes as building materials.
The Well known Habitat Scientist and Professor emeritus of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,Prof.K.S.Jagadish, Professor , Post Graduate Studies (Structural Engineering), Department of Civil Engineering,R.V.College of Engineering, Bangalore along with the eminent Structural engineer / Scientist S. Raghunath,Professor, Department of Civil Engineering,BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore were the resource personsin the program who shared their expertise and knowledge with the participants.