Construction

Chennai resident Vaanmathi is the founder of Container Care, which uses marine containers to build beautiful homes, site offices, hospital rooms and even marriage halls.

Autokast Ltd, a government of Kerala undertaking, is using its waste foundry sand to make eco-friendly and low-cost silica bricks. The unit is built with a capacity to produce 4,000 bricks per day.

Tarun Jami, the founder of GreenJams, came up with Agrocete, an eco-friendly brick option that reduces construction costs by 50% and increases thermal insulation by 50%.

Engineer Shubham Singh's machine turns farm waste into an alternative to wood and helps farmers earn more. Here's how.

Built using mud bricks made from scratch, Sunyata Eco Hotel in Karnataka’s Chikmagalur is blazing a trail will its sustainable initiatives. From solar power and rainwater harvesting to earth tunnels and millet recipes, it's doing it all.

Mana Foresta in Sarjapur in Bengaluru, takes inspiration from Italian architect Stefano Boeri who built the world's first vertical forests in Milan, Italy. These residential spaces have up to 900 trees and 90 plant species.

After a string of odd jobs, Parameswaran Krishna Iyer started his own line of bamboo artefacts and furniture with Bamboopecker in Bengaluru. Today, they use bamboo in construction projects for private and government entities pan India as well.

Perala Manasa Reddy, a civil engineer graduate from Telangana, launched Samnavi Constructions and innovated the OPods - a low-cost housing solution built using large sewage pipes.

The biomedical waste will be sourced from hospitals, schools, salons, bus stops, and other public places by placing ‘Eco Bins’.

While the structure is a sight to behold and has mesmerised millions of visitors, the researchers at the Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Tamil Nadu, were more intrigued by the construction of the monument.