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- PublicationUse of glass fibre reinforced gypsum panels with reinforced concrete infills for construction of walls and slabs(01-12-2016)
;Paul, Shinto ;Cherian, Philip; Use of rapid techniques for timely delivery of construction projects by adopting fast methodologies and alternate building materials is necessary in India, given the tremendous housing shortage. Further, the construction has to be affordable and also sustainable. The construction technique proposed in this paper, by making use of Glass Fibre Reinforced Gypsum (GFRG) panels (with reinforced concrete infilled cavities) to build homes, promises such a solution for rapid affordable mass housing in India. GFRG building system is a rapid building technology composed of prefabricated wall panel load bearing system. GFRG is also an eco-friendly building material which can be manufactured out of either natural or industrial gypsum. In India, these panels have been manufactured from the fertilizer by-product waste. As an outcome of the research done at IIT Madras on the feasibility of using these panels for affordable mass housing in India, a two-storeyed GFRG building of 184 square meter area was built at IIT Madras campus, as a demonstration of the suitability of this technology. This is described in this paper. - PublicationGlass fibre reinforced gypsum panels for sustainable construction(01-01-2019)
;Gouri Krishna, S. R. ;Cherian, Philip; The tremendous housing need of India is causing the depletion of virgin building materials. In an era of scarce resources, sustainable solutions are always preferable. Glass Fibre Reinforced Gypsum (GFRG) technology is one such solution where all the structural members are constructed using hollow panels infilled with reinforced concrete (RC), as per structural design. This paper discusses the sustainability of construction using GFRG panels in terms of embodied energy and indoor thermal comfort. The case study building at IIT Madras campus was found to have lesser embodied energy compared to conventional buildings. The result is significant considering the fact that the building sector consumes 40% of the total energy in world. Also, the inside temperature was found to be lesser by 2 °C which will help in reducing the air conditioning requirement of the building and thereby the operational energy.