PM Modi on Friday laid the foundation stone of Light House Projects (LHPs) which will be constructed in 6 Indian cities beneath Global Housing Technology Challenge-India.
What are Light House Projects?
The Light House Projects (LHPs) are model housing projects with homes constructed with alternate technologies compatible with the geo-climatic and hazard circumstances of the area.
The Light House Projects (LHPs) showcase the finest of new-age alternate worldwide technologies, components and processes in the building sector for the initially time in the nation at such a huge scale. They are getting constructed beneath GHTC-India which envisages offering an eco method for adoption of revolutionary technologies in the housing building sector in a holistic manner.
The LHPs are getting constructed at Indore (Madhya Pradesh), Rajkot (Gujarat), Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Ranchi (Jharkhand), Agartala (Tripura) and Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh). They comprise about 1000 homes at every place along with allied infrastructure facilities.
These projects will demonstrate and provide prepared to reside homes at an expedited pace inside twelve months, as compared to traditional brick and mortar building, and will be more economical, sustainable, of higher excellent and durability.
These LHPs demonstrate a wide variety of technologies, which includes Prefabricated Sandwich Panel System in LHP at Indore, Monolithic Concrete Construction making use of Tunnel Formwork in LHP at Rajkot, Precast Concrete Construction System in LHP at Chennai, 3D Volumetric Precast Concrete Construction System in LHP at Ranchi, Structural Steel Frame with Light Gauge Steel Infill Panels in LHP at Agartala and PVC Stay In Place Formwork System in LHP at Lucknow.
The LHPs will serve as reside laboratories for facilitating the transfer of technologies to the field and its additional replication. This incorporates organizing, style, production of elements, building practices and testing for each faculty and students of IITs, NITs, other Engineering colleges, Planning and Architecture colleges, builders, pros of private and public sectors and other stakeholders.
(With inputs from agencies)