carbon
12 Nov 2017
Green Building and LEED Certification
Green Building means application of environmentally responsible process throughout the life cycle of a building. LEED is the most widely used rating system for such processes. What is Green Building? Green building is a concept that brings together various best practices, processes, skills and talents to reduce and eliminate the impacts of structures on environment
03 Sep 2014
Know the different forms of steel
You may have seen steel all around you – buildings, tools, machines, cars, trains, watches, cutlery items, railway tracks etc. It is commonly used as building material. It is not a pure metal but an alloy of iron. Steel is world’s most recycled material with a recycling rate of over 60% globally. Steel is iron mixed
19 Aug 2014
Carbon-Different forms of existence
Carbon is the sixth most abundant element in the earth. The property of an element to take more than one physical form is called allotropy and the different forms are called allotropes. As allotropes take different chemical structures, they exhibit different properties as well. Carbon exists in three basic forms in nature – diamond, graphite