Brochure on items of work handled in various Divisions and Sections of Ministry of Environment and Forests

June 2003

IV 13 CIVIL CONSTRUCTION UNIT (CCU)

a) Planning and construction works like office buildings, Laboratory buildings, residential quarters, Herbarium, Museums, Landscaping of subordinate offices of the Ministry.

b) Monitoring of all the works undertaken by its field Divisions and sub-divisions as well as those being done by C. P. W .D. on behalf of the Ministry, where Civil Construction Unit, does not have its field units.

c) Developing alternative materials to avoid use of timber in buildings including utilizing the same in the various buildings, being constructed by it.

d) Introduction of photo-voltic cells in place of electric lights for street lights.

e) Introduction of C. F .L. s in place of conventional fluorescents lights in hostels,

f) guest houses etc., to effect energy saving,

g) Introduction of solar water heating systems in hostel buildings for heating water.