Thrust Areas :

·    Improving the policy environment for sustained growth of cost-effective building materials, production and availability.

·      Promotion of production units of building materials/components based on industrial waste such as Flyash, Redmud, Phosphogypsum; agricultural residues such as rice husk, jute, coir etc. other wastes and by-products.

·      Modernisation of small scale and village level building materials production units in rural and urban areas.

·   Construction of Demonstration Structures to showcase appropriate technology & wider dissemination.

·     Formulation of standards for innovative building materials and construction technologies.

·    Strengthening industrial extension services for attracting more investment in building materials sector by working with national and international agencies.

·    Upscaling of technologies, know-how acquisition, absorption and dissemination.

·    Assessing vulnerability and risk in natural disaster, prone areas.

·   Promoting natural hazard resistant construction technologies.

·  Global technology search and encouraging joint ventures in building materials and construction sector.