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For the buildings to look much neater and elegant, builders all over the country are trying to evolve uniform measurements for windows and doors in housing projects. It is to the advantage of the customers, they claim. So next time you buy furniture for your new house, you can also pick up some nice, trendy doors and stylish widow frames.

Confederation of Construction Products and Services (CCPS) is working overtime to bring together the country's builders to implement this decision. According to them, if the size of the window, doors is standardized, the cost of construction of a house will come down drastically.

Assistant Project Manager from CCPS, Manmeet Taneja told moneycontrol, “Standardization will eliminate a lot of wastage and this would also benefit the consumers since a standard size would be easily available in the market.” She added that intially it might not give any cost benefit. "However, in a long run, say about one year down the line, it would save up to 30% of the cost."

While big builders like DLF, Unitech and Parsavnath have already standardized measurements for door and window frames, it is the turn of the other builders to join them. CCPS has come up with 15 designs of doors and windows for different rooms.

However, few other architects have a different stance on this, like Ashwini Nahate, an architect from Chatterjee architects, says that, “Doors being of a uniform size are still okay, but not the windows. I would not want every building to look the same.”

Mr. D L Desai, Vice President of Builders Association of India says that different size of windows and doors makes it difficult for the developer to execute the plan. “If the glass of the window breaks down, rather than getting it made of a particular size, it will definitely be better to buy it readymade from the market,” he adds.

Having uniform frames will not only save the construction time by 2-3 months, it will also minimize wastage of wood. “Yes, that definitely would help in saving resources but every architect has his own style and there should not be any uniformity,” avers Sanjeevani Sajwekar from Kadri Architects.

According to well renowned Premnath Architects, uniform size of doors and windows for housing projects will result in efficiency, overall economy and they consider this as a welcome step in the construction industry. With such a blend of responses by different architects, it is difficult to say if this plan would be executed or not.

Kamiya Jani