01 · Library

Permanent answers, with their sources and dates.

Indian construction knowledge is abundant but hard to use. The Library collects it in one shape, so you know what you are reading and how old it is.

No entries yet.The Library is being built. The first entries will appear here, and each one will be labelled as Zariya-authored or distilled from a Board.

Every entry has the same eight parts

  1. Answer first, in three lines.
  2. When it applies, and when it does not.
  3. Steps.
  4. A worked Indian example.
  5. Common mistakes.
  6. Sources, with dates.
  7. Last verified, and a review-by date.
  8. Authors and contributors, version history, licence.

Nothing is allowed to look current when it is not

Each entry carries a review-by date. When that date passes, a “may be out of date” banner appears on its own and the entry joins the stewards’ queue.

Find things by stage, discipline, building type and region

Region comes first. The same question can have a different answer in Kolkata and in Pune, so an entry can have regional variants that point back to the national one.

Read this before you rely on an entry

Entries are information, not professional advice. Anything about codes is checked by a licensed professional before it is published, and shows the edition and date of the code it cites. Verify against the current code.