1st Edition
Designing with Alternative Building Materials and Review of Building Materials
1. General Items and Brief Comments on Building Materials and Earth Technology 2. Earth/Clay, Alternative Building Materials, Cob, Wattle-and-Daub, and Some Other Methods 3. Compressed Earth Blocks (CEB), Soil/Earth, Stabilisers, Fibres, and Applications 4. Adobe, Clay, Fly Ash–Lime Bricks, and Masonry Construction 5. Rammed Earth Construction 6. Ferro-Cement 7. Fibre-Reinforced Concrete 8. Brief Comments on Building Materials 9. Concrete as a Building Material 10. Steel Structures 11. Computer-Aided Work, Education, Training, Quality, Reliability, and Communication 12. Sustainability/Resilience, Hazards, Risks, and Structural and Site Safety 13. Construction, Supervision, Site Accidents, Project, and Risk Management 14. Repair Work to Structures 15. Construction Photographs from Projects 16. Summary and Comments from Review on Alternative Building Materials
Biography
Kalyan Kumar Ganguly (Gangopadhyay) received his BE in civil engineering from Jadavpur University in 1964. He is a qualified Chartered Engineer (London) and obtained his PhD from Teesside, UK, in 1972. He has more than 57 years of experience in India and the UK, covering design, site supervision, project management, research, and teaching. The spectrum of projects includes bridges, power projects, fertilizer projects, chemical plants, heavy civil engineering projects, university complexes, hotels and resorts, research centres, housing and commercial complexes. Some of the special projects involving alternative building materials will include ferro-cement, compressed earth blocks, rammed earth construction, etc. He has also handled repair and rehabilitation projects on buildings, bridges, and heritage structures.
