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THEME PAPER

BUILDING INCLUSIVITY AND RESILIENCE IN CITIES

THROUGH MODERN CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGIES

MS. POOJA NANDY e multitudinous and multifarious INTRODUCTION
modern construction technologies are
MS. ARTI DAGA empowered with better and superior "India recognizes the importance
technologies that help conserve natural of global initiatives as
resources and energy. ese augment the encapsulated in the Sustainable
ecosystem of resilient, green and clean Development Goals, the Paris
Conventional construction
built environments. e Habitat III agreement on Climate Change,
technologies are using finite resources
adopted the New Urban Agenda for and the draft New Urban
and high-embodied energy building
de ning global strategies and actions for Agenda. These initiatives place
materials like cement and steel.
sustainable urban development, viz. enormous responsibilities on
Concrete jungles in cities have caused
'Cities for all' with housing at the center. countries such as India and form
ecological imbalances due to over- Globally, cities' focus is on achieving the an integral part of the overall
exploitation of resources and the Sustainable Development Goal 11 of strategy that India proffers."¹
release of Green House Gases (GHGs), making cities and human settlements
wrote Hon'ble Vice President
leading to climate change. inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.
Shri M. Vankaiah Naidu in the
Recent events have demonstrated that is article aims to address affordable Habitat III National Report 2016
cities suffer greatly due to economic housing and cities for all while critically while taking cognizance of the
crises, epidemics & pandemics, and examining the advancements in construction
techniques which use modern methods to challenges and opportunities of
haphazard urbanization, demanding a
provide inclusivity, resilience, and the important urban
conceptual shift for understanding the
sustainability in our cities. Quantitative transformation our country has
many complexities that affect urban
and qualitative surveys were conducted witnessed in the recent decades.
resilience. The design and structure of
to compare different innovative To achieve the Sustainable
cities, culture, and systems have to
construction techniques vis-a-vis Development Goal (SDG) 11 of
respond as an integrated whole in the signi cant parameters of construction, making cities and human
face of tensions and stresses. resources, and energy consumption. To
se lements inclusive, safe,
achieve the target of affordable housing
resilient, and sustainable, the
set out by the Pradhan Mantri Awas
Keywords: Construction, Technology, Yojna (PMAY), and to meet the Global built environment has to adhere
inclusivity, resilience, GHTC, Sustainable Housing Technology Challenge - India to the green building codes to
Development Goals. has selected six construction technologies move towards net zero carbon
as the most suitable, cost-effective, and and a resilient world. The Paris
Ms. Pooja Nandy (pooja@hudco.org) is Joint
fast technologies. e article concludes Agreement deals with the long-
General Manager (Projects) /Fellow,
that modern construction technology, term net-zero emissions in the
HUDCO's Human Se lements
appropriately adopted, integrated, and second half of the century. The
Management Institute, New Delhi
implemented as per the sustainable Sendai framework for disaster
Ms. Arti Daga (arti.daga@nmims.edu) is standards and green building codes, can risk reduction aims to prevent
Assistant Professor, Balwant Sheth School of augment inclusiveness and resilience in new and reduce existing disaster
Architecture, NMIMS University, Mumbai cities.

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