Nurturing Environment Conscious Architects: TSAP

There is a growing demand in Industry for experts capable of providing services for evaluating the performance of a building project for its efficiency in terms of green design. The program of EDGE Expert Training is Accredited by International Finance Corporation.  The  EDGE Experts bring their skills, insights and thorough understanding of the EDGE software to instill confidence that a project is certifiably green. Their persuasiveness paves the way for a client to imagine and realize an entirely green project. At the individual level, becoming an EDGE Expert results in greater knowledge, career growth and an opportunity to promote professional work. At the firm level, credentialing your team helps to upskill the existing practice while attracting and retaining fresh talent. A sole practitioner, in-house staff or a member of an engineering or architecture practice can all become EDGE Experts. They are an integral force that binds the design process together while providing o...

What is Project Management? Project management is the combination of planning, organizing, securing, executing, controlling, managing resources and tasks to seamlessly drive the project throughout its life cycle. A Project consists of various stakeholders like client, Architects, designers, planners, consultants, suppliers, workers etc. While each one independently delivers their scope it is important that their actions are in sync with each other and the overall objective of the project. Hence it is important to have a nodal agency which coordinates, plans, controls and supervises the actions of all the stakeholders in delivering the project.  This nodal agency is called a Project management. “Being a Project Manager is like being an artist, you have the different colored process streams combining into a work of Art” Greg Cimmarrusti.. Project life cycle Why do we need project managers? Having a Project manager increases the likelihood of a projec...

Being An expert in Affordable Mass Housing " Making housing is like a bird building its nest," says Correa. "You start with a basic house, but you have to let people change it to their own needs."-Charles Correa Figure 1: Moshe Safdie’s Affordable Housing/pinterest.com Government is working towards achieving Affordable Housing on various levels. Affordable Mass housing involves designing, planning, managing and development of the communities. Development can be seen in stages starting with public participation, serial learning, self-reliance, capacity building, empowerment and sustainability.  Housing Development means the establishment and maintenance of habitable, stable and sustainable, public and private residential environments. People should be given easy access to permanent residential structures with secure tenure, ensuring internal and external privacy and providing adequate protection against harming elements.  The development also inc...

Career in Urban Planning for Architects........ “Cities have the capacity of providing something for everybody, only because and only when, they are created by everybody” ........ Jane Jacobs. ..... Master Planner Jane Jacobs explained it very well. When all the inputs from everyone counts together 'A Simple Place' becomes 'A Liveable Place' and each one of us becomes a Planner ourselves. If we talk technically, An Urban Planner is someone who develops plans and programs for the use of land. They use planning to create Communities, Accommodate growth and to Revitalize Physical Facilities in town, cities, counties and metropolitan areas. Urban planning is perhaps one of the most critical roles in a city today. As a ravages of global warming lead to annual flooding in many regions, continuously increasing pollution index. All these problems are across world and not a single country is untouched. So it will take the vision of expert urban pla...

‘A house is a machine for Living in’ …………    Le Corbusier Buildings, especially the ones we use today can be construed as complicated machines. Optimizing their performance can ensure enhanced comfort for the inhabitants and reduce life cycle cost. Sustainable architecture is concerned with continuous depletion of resources, but it is not the only natural resource which is at risk. Other qualitative characteristics such as landscape, heritage, history, comfort and capability of urban areas to provide safety, health and enjoyment are also at risk. The aim has to be preserving the overall characteristics and quality of the environment. The term "sustainability" with the term “sustainable development" is widely used in economic, environmental, or social development issues. According to the current views, "sustainable architecture" not only provides the present generation’s need but also tries to preserve the needs of future generations as well. “Sustainabl...