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Glass Fibre Reinforced Gypsum Panels for Sustainable Construction

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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.

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The authors are thankful to the Engineering Unit of IIT Madras for their support. The funding for the construction of the demo building by IIT Madras and Department of Science and Technology is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, 600036, India

    S. R. Gouri Krishna, Philip Cherian, Devdas Menon & A. Meher Prasad

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  1. Structural Health Monitoring Laboratory, CSIR-Structural Engineering Research Centre, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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  2. Advanced Concrete Testing & Evaluation Laboratory (ACTEL), CSIR-Structural Engineering Research Centre, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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Gouri Krishna, S.R., Cherian, P., Menon, D., Prasad, A.M. (2019). Glass Fibre Reinforced Gypsum Panels for Sustainable Construction. In: Rao, A., Ramanjaneyulu, K. (eds) Recent Advances in Structural Engineering, Volume 1. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering , vol 11. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0362-3_69

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