V D Joshi Award winning Corona Bug- ferrocement house

10th Ferrocement Day - Mattias Nowe wins V D Joshi Award This video shows the Construction of Ferrocement house. Every year the Ferrocement Society, India celebrates ferrocement day in the memory of renowned and famous engineer of yester years Late V D Joshi. A competition is held amongst engineers and architects every year. The winner is felicitated by Late V D Joshi award for the best ferrocement structure. This is the 10th consecutive year in line. The past award winners are, Ar. Anupama Kundu from Pondicherry, Ar. Ajay Thosar, Pune, Er. Biji John from Kerala, Shri Shilp Consultants from Aurangabad, Owen Waldschlagel, USA, Shri Subhash Patil of Sangli, Shri Sumit Bagade and Shri Nandakumar Jadhav of Satara. An eminent engineer from NSW, Australia, Mattias Nowe bagged this year’s award for the innovative building in ferrocement “CORONA BUG” built at Jiggi. Er Ulhas Paranjape was the Chief Guest. Prof Bilawari Karkare, Prof. Shilpa Patil, HOD, Civil Engg Department of VIIT college, Prof R K Ambegaonkar was also present. Prof Dr. Archana Tanawade presented application of ferrocement for roads construction. President Girish Sangle welcomed the guests and spoke about V D Joshi’s pioneer work in India. Er. Vijay Shitole delivered vote of thanks. The houses built in ferrocement are earthquake resistant. These are also easy to construct. Materials like wooden planks, metal, bricks, rubble, etc., are not required for this type of construction. So these houses are more environment friendly. Artisan awards were also given to the best ferrocement workers. Pradeep Jadhav, Umesh Sawant, Ganpat Tukaram Sawant and Shaahid Sannate are the winners of Artisan Award of 2022.