SCHOOLOFARCHITECTUREANDPLANNINGBABUBANARASI DAS UNIVERSITY celebrated World Water Day with the aimtocreateawarenessabouttheimportanceoffreshwateramongstthestudents Indian green building council organized the Awareness Program on Water Conservation on the occasion of “World Water Day” the event was held in Stepper’s Hall, Babu Banarasi Das ITM. AR. VARSHA VERMA and AR.AANSHULSINGH were the faculty coordinators for the programme. Students from the different department (B.Arch.,B.I.D and Civil engineer) participated in the Awareness programme.
Dr.(AR.) Mohit Kumar Agarwal, Dean & Professor of SoAP, BBDU, Lko. was the Felicitator of the Guest the delivered a speech by welcoming the guests. WehadAr.AshokKumar,PrincipalArchitect,Arch-En-Design,Lko.AndEr.Amit Srivastava, Co-Chair, IGBC – UP Chapter & Chief Operating Officer, BBD, Viraj Construction.
The session started with Ar. Ashok Kumar, the Principal Architect of Arch- En-Design, who delivered a presentation on “An Approach towards Environmental Sustainability” to the participants and also gave glances of his own projects and difficulties that came with it and how they tackled with the issue and came up with solutions to conserve natural reserve.
And then Mr. Vikas Rohatgi, Manager Project, Rain Water Harvester, provided us with an insight on “Rain Water Harvesting”. He had given valuable suggestions regarding the techniques, maintenance and methods involved in Rain water Harvesting.The session also had a poster making competition on the topic ‘NET ZERO WATER MANAGEMENT’ where several students from our department took part and showed their incredible performance. And the best posters were given prizes for their innovative ideas by the guests and faculty members
The whole thing came to an end with a beautiful NUKKAD NATAK performed by students of architecture 3rd year. They gracefully portrayed the water scarcity issue and the how it was affecting the day-to-day life of common people and what are the difficulties they are facing because of the lack of such an important factor in our life which is “WATER”.
