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Creating a Sustainable Home: A Handy Manual for Home Builders

This handy manual covers all the sustainability aspects, starting from planning till occupying a home. The importance and benefits of each aspect is explained in a simple manner for easy understanding of the reader. The main purpose of this handy manual is to impart holistic knowledge on building homes using sustainable building techniques.

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Climate Change - Rising temperature

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Tamil Nadu is feeling the impact of #ClimateChange in terms of increased instances of #HeatWave with every passing year. This year saw #Chennai break the all-time record of March by recording the hottest day ever wherein mercury hit the roof at 41.3 degrees Celsius.

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Road Safety - Child-Friendly Roads

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This Children's Day let us pledge to focus on enabling child-friendly roads in terms of safe roads, safe vehicles and safe user behaviour, thereby reducing child fatalities and road traffic injuries.

#RoadSafety #SafeRoadsTamilNadu #SadakSurakshaJeevanRaksha #StreetsForLife

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Children's Day 2021

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As per UNICEF, nearly 1 billion children are at an extremely high risk of the impacts of #ClimateCrisis. If we don't #ActNow, the inequalities that children face will exacerbate & future generations will suffer from hunger, malnutrition & life-threatening illnesses. #ChildrensDay

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Road Safety - Infrastructure Development

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As per the study conducted by CAG on speeding issues in Chennai, the institutional zone of Harrington Road serves as a positive example with no speeding concerns owing to an enhanced road design and infrastructure provisioning. 

#RoadSafety #SafeRoadsTamilNadu #SadakSurakshaJeevanRaksha #StreetsForLife

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Climate Change - Sea level rise

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The coastal areas of #TamilNadu are vulnerable to #SeaLevelRise due to #Climate change. This in turn causes shoreline erosion, cyclone surges, excessive precipitation, flooding and extreme events resulting in severe loss of human life, damaging ecosystems and property.

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