STATES

Jammu and Kashmir, himachal Pradesh, uttara khand.

EXISTING CONDITIONS

AND

CONSTRUCTION

PRACTICES

The zone covers hilly region as well as substantial part of Indo-gangetic plane and falls under seismic zone IV. In the hilly areas there is abundance of stone and the planes are full of alluvial soil. The houses are built with soil blocks, bricks, stone walls and roofs are CGI sheets, burnt clay tiles, reinforced brick concrete and R.C.C.

INNOVATION OF

MATERIALS,

COMPONENTS

AND

TECHNOLOGIES

·        Instead of mud blocks for walling, stabilized clay blocks with cement-lime-bitumen shall be produced mud used. Stone block masonry.

·        In Hilly area solid/hollow concrete block walls with RCC bands, as per 1.5. code, shall be used which will avoid the use of timber and provide easier / faster and better construction.

Foundation

Wailing

Lintels

·        75 mm thick precast RCC lintels, with or without sunshades, can be provided in brick or block masonry walls.

·        RC plinth bands, lintel bands and roof band using cement concrete M20 concrete.

Doors and

Windows

·        Braced and battened doors of secondary species timber with pivots at top and bottom can be provided with or without any frame.

·        RCC frames and shutter for doors and windows can be provided.

·        Ferrocement shutters for doors

Roofing

·        Precast RCC joist with prefab brick panels / RC plank / funicular shell / Precast Jackarch panel and concrete panels in roofs along with prefab brick panel system can be provided.

·        RBC/RCC in-situ may also be provided

·        AC/CGI sheets with purlins of steel/ RCC /ferrocement instead of timber can be used.

·        Precast RC I panel for sloping roof can be used.

Flooring

·        PCC 1 :2:4 flooring 25 mm thick over a base course of lean concrete (1:5:10) 75 mm thick

Sanitation

·        Single stack system of plumbing.

·        G.!. I PVC pipes for water supply.

·        CII PVC soil I waste pipes