Technology
A team of students at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, has designed a portable, foldable house that can be installed in less than 15 minutes, offering shelter and quick rehabilitation support in disaster-hit regions.
The house, fabricated from steel and aluminum composite panels, shrinks to 32 times when folded and can withstand extreme climatic conditions courtesy its double-layered walls, notes The Times of India.
Civil engineering students Gobinath P, Shreeram R, Akhilesh DSN and Santosh G V, who bagged Azim Premji University's national-level Social Enterprise Idea Challenge for the innovation, seek to scale up the structure with inbuilt biodigesters and solar panels to add to their sustainability.
