Building regulations for environmental protection in Indian hill towns

Kumar, Ashwani; Pushplata,

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“…In spite of that, natural water sources like streams, waterfalls, rivers, lakes, etc. present in or around hill towns are facing serious problems related to pollution and siltation due to improper waste management, encroachment, and prevalent inappropriate site development and construction practices [4].…”

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“…Unlike most of the ecologically sensitive zones/areas of the world, Indian hill towns are the specific examples of massive urban development in environmentally sensitive areas (Figure 1), which are growing exponentially over and above of their carrying capacities and hampering/affecting the environment [4]. In most of the countries for development in hill regions and ecologically sensitive areas, separate regulations that focus on minimal and contextually appropriate development, without harming the environment and ecology of the area are formulated and legislated.…”

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“…Energy and water being major environmental concerns for urban settlements, still, there are very few regulations enforced on built environment to address these crucial issues [4]. Moreover, due to the absence of regulations related to these, the building owners and architects do not give sufficient importance to these critical issues.…”

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Building Regulations Related to Energy and Water in Indian Hill Towns

Kumar¹

2017

J. sustain. dev. energy water environ. syst.

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Energy and water are the two major concerns which humanity is presently facing at large, and many concerns are being expressed at the international, national and local level related to these critical issues. Optimizing the use of energy and water in buildings are significant challenges faced by architects and designers in developing countries like India while planning of townships and designing of buildings and their surrounding environments. Different building regulations are formulated in various Indian cities to optimize the use of energy and water in built environment. But, these regulations are not efficiently enforced and followed. As a result, the problem related to insufficient supply and inappropriate use of energy and water persists, which leads to excessive pressure on already scarce energy and water resources. Environmentally sensitive in hill towns of India are facing most of the issues, where provision and improvement of infrastructural facilities is a tedious task and may lead to enormous impacts on the environment. In this paper, an attempt is made to understand their issues and problems of different building regulations related to energy and water enforced in Indian hill towns. Valuable lessons are outlined related to formulation and implementation of building relations imposed on development in hilly areas in other countries. This paper also includes various interventions required to incorporate regulations related to energy and water in existing building regulations of Indian hill towns.

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Building Regulations Related to Energy and Water in Indian Hill Towns

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2017

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“…viii) Adoption of different provisions for environmental protection need to be ensured by local governing authorities while conducting site visits and issuing completion certificates in hill towns. As all hill towns have fragile environments, the implementation of different provisions for environmental protection in hill towns is most crucial (Kumar & Pushplata, 2013b). ix) Hill towns of India are best known for their aesthetics/beauty and picturesque settings and to maintain the aesthetic quality of hill towns it is recommended that new buildings should merge with local setting and natural topographical profile of hill towns, especially in Shimla.…”

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“…As a consequence of this, fertile agriculture land in the suburbs or outskirts of hill towns is used for development purpose due to its lower price, weak land policies, improper development plan proposals and techno-legal regime, and weak economic background of farmers. There is deterioration in the quality of living environment due to unsuitable and unsafe building stock for habitation, insufficient infrastructure, narrow roads, inadequate open spaces and reduction in green areas, which are the outcomes of wrong planning and building regulations and inappropriate planning and design solutions [10].…”

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Impact of building regulations on Indian hill towns

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2016

HBRC Journal

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Unique development pattern is evolved in response to various geo-environmental constraints which include difficult topography, complex geological structure, adverse climate and fragile ecology in Indian hill towns. These hill towns have been experiencing high pressure for development due to rapid growth, increased employment opportunities and increased tourist influx from last few decades; as a result, tremendous development has taken place in these environmentally fragile hill towns, which has drastically changed the overall environment in and around hill towns. Different building regulations are enforced to guide and regulate developmental activity in hill towns and minimise the impacts of development on fragile and attractive environment of hill towns. But, as evident from existing development these building regulations are ambiguities and fail to address challenges for development in peculiar hill context and consequently have enormous impacts on the urban environment of hill towns.This study attempts to highlight various issues of existing development pattern and existing building regulations of hill towns along with various factors responsible for building regulations. Various impacts of building regulations on urban environment of hill towns are also highlighted in this study. ª 2015 The Author. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Housing and Building National Research Center. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

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Building regulations for environmental protection in Indian hill towns

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Building Regulations Related to Energy and Water in Indian Hill Towns

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