Bhubaneswar: AWE organises ‘Smart Cities Sustainable Construction’ workshop

Their mission is to take knowledge of implementation to cities to stakeholders who have to actually work on thes areas of Smart City.

In AWE, derived from Indian Air Water Earth, was launched as an online magazine, on 22nd April 2014, on Earth Day. As part of In AWE 's endeavour to spread knowledge and information on Sustainable Construction & Green Buildings, they are holding workshops in 20 cities.In AWE oganised a Workshop on ‘Smart Cities Sustainable Construction’, a third of the series, at MayFair Lagoon, Bhubaneshwar.

 The first 2 were held in Delhi & Jaipur. These are designed for practising Architects , Engineers, Government officials, people from ULB's, Facility managers, Industries and other stakeholders. 

"Smart Cities always put citizens first, and citizens make a city smart" was the unanimous thought of the both Vijay & Dipika Tuteja. While  Founder Dipika Tuteja started her presentation with a journey through slides on Indian Architectural Heritage  and the situation every city is in at present. The proposal of Decentralisation and Towns within a City including CSR in Smart cities was the way to reality on a PPP model, according to her.

"City for the people and by the people" is what was suggested by Vijay Tuteja. 

He talked about Urban planning issues and provision of infrastructure much in advance to control informal settlements.Updating skills and adopting new technologies and alternate materials to reduce costs, energy consumption and pollution was the way forward towards reality.

Speaking on this occasion,  Dipika Tuteja and Vijay Tuteja, Founder, In AWE said, “Citizens make a city smart and the experience of coming here has been truly amazing. City for the people and by the people is what we propose. This was complemented by the presentation made by the BDA. The winning presentation has taken into consideration all aspects of citizens of all state of life.”