Indian Building Material
Technologies for
Cost Effective Housing
SHEE
Contents
1. Flyash-Sand-Lime-Gypsum Bricks
1
2. Compressed Earth / Fly Ash Sand Lime Gypsum Blocks (Interlocking Type)
7
3. Compressed Earth Bricks/Blocks
9
4. Clay Flyash Burnt Bricks
13
5. Marble Slurry Bricks
15
6. Solid/Hollow Concrete Blocks
17
7. Cellular Light Weight Concrete
23
8. Ferrocement Wall Panels
25
9. Rat Trap Bond Brick Masonry
27
10. Micro Concrete Roofing Tiles
29
11. Ferrocement Roofing Channels
31
12. RCC Planks and Joists
33
13. Reinforced Brick Panels & Joists
37
14. Precast Concrete L-Panels
39
15. Ferrocement C-Beams/Rafters
41
16. Precast Concrete Door/Window Frames
43
17. Concrete Paving Blocks
45
18. Mosaic & Checkered Flooring Tiles
49
19. Bamboo Mat Corrugated Roofing Sheets
51
20. Bamboo Mat Boards
53
21. Coir Polymer Composite Boards & Ply
55
22. Flyash/Red Mud Polymer Doors and Panel Products
57
23. Glass Reinforced Polymer (GRP) Door Shutters & Frames
59
24. Finger Jointed Lumber from Plantation Timbers
61
25. Technology for Retrievable Structures
63
Other Machines Available
64
Setting up a Technology Demonstration cum Production Centre for
Manufacturing of Prefab Building Components
65
Production Days for Components of a House of 60 Sq.mts with various
Walling & Roofing Options
68
Industrial, mining, mineral wastes and their application in building materials as alternate to traditional materials and natural resources
69
Introduction
This booklet includes variety of production technologies of building materials as developed and practised in India. These technologies utilize locally available raw materials, wastes and by-products from industry, agriculture and natural fibres.
The technologies included here indicate several options which have been