Eco friendly Construction
Get the full GTU study material, English & Gujarati textbook PDFs, syllabus curriculum, and solved previous year question papers.
English Book & Chapters
English Book Coming Soon
We are working hard to add this material. Stay tuned for updates!
Follow on Instagram for UpdatesGTU Previous Year Papers
Papers Coming Soon
We are working hard to add this material. Stay tuned for updates!
Follow on Instagram for UpdatesEco friendly Construction Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Eco friendly Construction (subject code 2741402) as prescribed for C(EA · Semester 4 divides the course into 4 units, covering 28 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2741402)Unit 1 Eco-friendly Planning
- Energy Efficient Shelters
- Housing Options Today
- Site Planning and Use of On-Site Resources
- Smaller Houses that Utilize Space and Materials More Efficiently
- Working With Nature
- Better Window Planning
- Balancing Energy and Aesthetic Needs
Unit 2 Eco-friendly Materials
- Construction materials –locally available building materials- Soil
- Fly ash, Ferrocement
- Stone Dust
- Red mud, Gypsum
- Alternate Wood
- Cob Rammed Earth
- Light Clay
- Agro-Industrial Waste
- Innovative Materials Developed by CBRI
- Structural Properties Of Alternate Building Materials
Unit 3 Cost Effective Construction Techniques
- Construction Techniques- Innovative Techniques developed by CBRI
- SERC for foundation
- pre-fabricated construction techniques
- advantage of pre-fabrication areas where pre-fabrication can be introduced
- modular contained earth
- earth bag construction
Unit 4 Cost Effective Construction Equipments
- Equipments-Brick moulding machine
- Stablilised soil block making machine and plants for the manufacturing of concrete blocks
- M.C.R. tile making machine
- Ferrocement wall panel & Roofing channel making machine
- Chaukhat making machine