Photovoltaic cells with Terracotta Roofs

Renewable energy and alternative sources of energy are the buzz words in the building industry today.

Photovoltaic roof: beauty and energy without compromise

Solar roofing is fast becoming the preferred alternative to conventional roof materials with its increasingly recognized economic benefits. The heating and cooling costs can be cut by up to 30%, simply by installing solar roofing systems.

Solar Photovoltaic (PV) panels allow you to generate your own electricity using energy from the sun. They don't need direct sunlight only daylight, so they also work on cloudy days. By generating your own electricity you could save on your energy bills.

Solar roofing is fast becoming the preferred alternative to conventional roof materials with its increasingly recognized economic benefits. The heating and cooling costs can be cut by up to 30%, simply by installing solar roofing systems.

PAIDS's red clay roof tiles terracotta and incorporate photovoltaic panels, as opposed to merely accommodating them. It's a perfect example of how forward-looking, sustainable technology can exist in harmony with traditional architecture.

Green Building

Green building (also known as green construction or sustainable building) refers to a structure and using process that is environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building's life-cycle: from siting to design, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation, and demolition. This requires close cooperation of the design team, the architects, the engineers, and the client at all project stages.

The common objective is that green buildings are designed to reduce the overall impact of the built environment on human health and the natural environment by:

• Efficiently using energy, water, and other resources
• Protecting occupant health and improving employee productivity
• Reducing waste, pollution and environmental degradation. 

A green building depletes as little of the natural resources during its construction and operation.

Green building brings together a vast array of practices, techniques, and skills to reduce and ultimately eliminate the impacts of buildings on the environment and human health.

When planning new buildings, PAIDS focuses on a safe and pleasant working environment and on minimizing waste, emissions and energy and water use. 

We are loading our atmosphere with thousands of pounds of CO2 every year. To offset this CO2 , more trees need to be planted. Research and studies show that the Buildings have significant amount of contribution in polluting the environment. 

The verge at which we have brought Mother Nature in our blind run of development is extremely critical and needs a complete green solution, which is ‘Green Building’.

Green Building refers to the incorporation of environment friendly and resource efficient processes at each stage of construction, right from site selection and designing to construction, operation followed by maintenance, renovation or even demolition. The endeavour is to seek minimum possible impact on environment.

Material and Resources

·      Sustainable construction material are chosen keeping in mind various characteristics like zero or low toxicity, high recyclability, zero or low off gassing of harmful air emissions, durability, reused and recycled content, sustainably harvested material.

·      Dimensional planning and other material efficiency strategies are used to reduce the construction costs. Construction and demolition material can be reused and recycled for e.g. inert demolition material can be used as base course for landfills. Proper planning for managing materials through deconstruction, demolition and construction is done.  Efficient planning of utilities to minimize

·     Utilization of rapidly renewable materials, such as bamboo flooring, wool carpets, strawboard, cotton ball insulation (made from denim scrap), genuine linoleum flooring, or poplar oriented-strand board (OSB). Using rapid renewable helps reduce the use and depletion of finite raw material.

·      Use of materials that are available locally is preferred over materials that need to be brought from distant places. It saves transportation costs. Also, alternative materials that can be generated from waste with lesser energy is used over conventional building materials.

Energy efficiency

Green buildings often include measures to reduce energy consumption – both the embodied energy required to extract, process, transport and install building materials and operating energy to provide services such as heating and power for equipment. 

Eco-friendly cleaning product for pollution stained bricks and terra cotta

PAIDS Eco Bricks is a caustic soda and potash-free cleanser that does not require neutralisation after rinsing.

PAIDS Eco Bricks is an innovative product designed to deep clean construction materials that have been heavily soiled by pollution.
Made of readily biodegradable molecules, PAIDS Eco Bricks has all the advantages of an ecological cleaning product in terms of ease to use, effectiveness and safety.That is not the case of corrosive products currently available in the market.
PAIDS Eco Bricks is particularly suited for vertical substrates (walls, facades and roofs). It is a viscous liquid that can be easily applied with a brush or roller, depending on the substrate to be cleaned. For the best result, select the ideal action time required, from one to several hours, depending on the age and extent of soiling.
Careful rinsing with a high-pressure cleaner will enable the removal of all soiling and product traces without a danger of altering the other surfaces (windows, shutters…).

Terracotta items for unique heritage hotel

Terra-cotta blocks were often finished with a glaze; that is, a slip glaze (clay wash) or an aqueous solution of metal salts was brushed or sprayed on the air-dried block before firing. Glazing changed the color, imitated different finishes, and produced a relatively impervious surface on the weather face of the final product. The glaze on the terra-cotta unit possessed excellent weathering properties when properly maintained. It had rich color and provided a hard surface that was not easily chipped off. Glazing offered unlimited and fade-resistant colors to the designer. Even today, few building materials can match the glazes on terra-cotta for the range and, most importantly, the durability of colors.

Fireproof construction terra-cotta was extensively developed as a direct result of the growth of the High Rise building. Inexpensive, lightweight and fireproof, these rough-finished hollow building blocks were ideally suited to span the I-beam members in floor, wall and ceiling construction. Certain varieties are still in production today. 

Glazed architectural terra-cotta was the most complex development of terra-cotta as a masonry building material in this country. The hollow units were hand cast in molds or carved in clay and heavily glazed. Glazed architectural terra-cotta could accommodate subtle nuances of modeling, texture and color. Compared to stone, it was easier to handle, quickly set and more affordable to use. Thought to be fireproof and waterproof, it was readily adaptable to structures of almost any height. The cost of molding the clay, glazing and firing the blocks, when compared to carving stone, represented a considerable savings, especially when casts were used in a modular fashion—that is, repeated over and over again. Maintenance of the fired and glazed surface was easy; it never needed paint and periodic washings restored its original appearance.  

Board of Management

Photo	Name & Address	Post	Contact No
	Mr. PRAVAT CHAKRAVERTY Amdiha Para, P.O.+ P.S + Dist. - Purulia West Bengal	President	+91 8935934085
	MR. Bishnu Mahato Vill + P.O. - Chakirban Dist. - Purulia West Bengal	Vice-President
	MR. AMARNATH MAHATO Amdiha Para, P.O.+ P.S + Dist. - Purulia West Bengal	Secretary	+91 9933110594
	MR. Dipak Kumar Mahato Amdiha Para, P.O.+ P.S + Dist. - Purulia West Bengal	Treasurer
	MR. Sabur Gorai Vill + P.O. - Chakirban Dist. - Purulia West Bengal	Asstt. Secretary
	MR. Dilip Kumar Mahato Amdiha Para, P.O.+ P.S + Dist. - Purulia West Bengal	Member
	MR. Sudarsan  Mahato Vill - Barria, P.O - Bagmundi, Dist. - Purulia West Bengal	Member
	Smt. Sabita Mahato Amdiha Para, P.O.+ P.S + Dist. - Purulia West Bengal	Member
	Smt. Rekha Mahato Vill + P.O.- Dabar, Dist. - Purulia West Bengal	Member
	Mr. Prakash Ch. Mahato Vill + P.O. - Chakirban Dist. - Purulia West Bengal	Member

Terra Cotta for Hotel

The Benson Hotel, on Southwest Broadway and Oak, is an example of French Baroque, with its mansard roof decorated in terra cotta tiles meant to mimic weathered copper. The Charles F. Berg Building on Southwest Broadway is a rare example of Art Deco terra cotta architecture. The 1930 façade is comprised of polychrome terra cotta in shades of black and teal, with decorative features like rain clouds reflecting the Pacific Northwest.

Terra Cotta buildings

Terra Cotta buildings

Our unrivalled expertise in both conservation work and new construction combines traditional craftsmanship and handmade quality with modern innovative techniques, enabling us to offer a keenly competitive service. Shaws of Darwen's capabilities involve operating within an increasingly international marketplace, while maintaining the highest quality terracotta products possible.

Most of the terra cotta buildings constructed between 1905 and 1930 were nine stories tall, built to the property lines, and had deep overhanging cornices. During the first two decades of the century, most terra cotta buildings were office and retail spaces. By the 1920s, residential and institutional buildings were being constructed in terra cotta, as well.

The wall surfaces of many of these structures were faced in brick, with terra cotta tiles used for decorative elements at the storefront level and at the cornices. Some retail-only buildings, however, were faced entirely in glazed terra cotta tiles, which adhered directly to the steel frame.

Much of the terra cotta used in Portland came from Gladding, McBean & Co., based in Lincoln, California, which produced architectural terra cotta for Portland as early as the 1880s. Though stock pieces could be ordered from firms, most of Portland’s terra cotta was custom-made.

ARCHITECTURAL TERRA COTTA A BIG FACTOR IN NEW BUILDING

Terra Cotta Known and Used 3000 B.C. 

Characteristics of Terra cotta:
-    Fired clay
-    Typically hollow, formed by pressing clay into a mould, by hollowing out portions of a solid, or by extruding it.
-    Usually low-fired
-    Typically a reddish, unglazed ceramic material.  It may also be a hard-fired glazed or unglazed ceramic material.
-    Durable (dependent upon the degree of firing)
-    Fireproof
-    Strong
-    Can be molded into virtually any shape
-    Available in a variety of designs, colors and finishes

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