Construction and the environment are indivisibly linked. Construction consumes precious natural resources of land, water and green cover. The overuses of these resources are slowly leading to an ecological imbalance which must be corrected with a move towards green construction.
What is Green Construction? Green construction looks beyond the readily apparent aspects of a building, and creates a space that addresses the comfort, health and broader environmental impacts of the construction/remodelling process. What are these environmental impacts?
Construction waste often includes concrete, metals, glass, plastics, wood, asphalt, bricks and more. This waste is often disposed of in either landfills or incinerators. Not only does this pollute the land and the air through CO2 emissions, but the transportation required to remove such waste has a major impact on the environment as well.
Green construction aims to create the balance between what we seek to build and what our environment can ultimately support. With the construction industry projected to grow to 25 to 30 thousand crores in another four to five years, carbon emissions must be countered by green technology.
As part of this Green Movement, MYK LATICRETE India has advocated and actively promotes an eco-friendly product range to ensure ecological responsibility and good health for all users of these products.
These products will not only save natural resources like water (used for curing purposes in cement based structures) but also ensure the good health of the occupants of the structure. Contributions from MYK LATICRETE India towards the green movement with regard to construction materials are considerable.
Construction Waste Management
In an effort to reduce demolition and land-cleaning debris in landfills and incinerators, MYK LATICRETE range of tile adhesives are factory packed and ready to use. This significantly decreases field spillages of loose materials like cement and sand with no scrap that would ordinarily be delivered into construction waste.
Incorporation of the Industrial By- Products
It is needless to say what carbon emission from cement manufacturing can do to harm the natural balances by depletion of ozone layer leading to the global warming. MYK LATICRETE is the first in this industry to understand the harmful impacts of CO2 emission and has led an innovation in minimizing the cement usage in the tile adhesives by incorporating industrial by-products in a massive scale which otherwise would have led to toxic landfill and air pollution.
Supporting Regional Materials
By increasing the demand for building materials which are extracted and manufactured within the region, the regional economy is thereby supported- leading in turn to the reduction of environmental impacts resulting from transportation.
Low-Emitting Materials
MYK LATICRETE products reduce the quantity of indoor air contaminants which are odorous, irritating and/or harmful to the comfort and well-being of the installers and occupants. MYK LATICRETE Adhesives, Grouts, wall putty, Sealers and Waterproofing membranes used on the interior of the building (defined as inside of the weatherproofing system and applied on-site) comply with the requirements of the reference standard. Use of the factory packed tile adhesives, grouts, and screeds minimize/eliminate the dusting that would have generated from the job site mixing of sand and cement.
In addition to this, MYK LATICRETE India can assist architects/designers in a number of key areas to accumulate potential LEED Credits towards project certification. The process of documenting these credits requires technical data from MYK LATICRETE India signed authority or engineer.
MYK LATICRETE IS A MEMBER OF THE INDIAN GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL
