Wonder Grass completes one year in operations

1. Progress of Work over one year of operations
   October 2007 to October 2008
   
   Citations and awards:
   
   1. Wonder Grass was awarded 2nd prize in the start-up category of BiD-India challenge 2007.
   2. Wonder Grass has been selected for Incubation support from NS Raghavan center for Entrepreneurial Learning, IIM-Bangalore.
   3. Wonder Grass is selected for participation in Social Entrepreneur development program 2008-2009, organized by social impact group Hyderabad.
   
   Within the span of first six months, we could process and complete following project-proposals
   Anand Niketan school, Ahmedabad
   Supply of treated and Seasoned bamboo, BCIL Bangalore.
   Extension to existing roofing at NS Raghavan Farm-house, Hosur.
   Extension for terrace-top house at T-Zed apartments, Bangalore.
   
   Innovation
   Driving spirit at Wonder Grass.
   
   Our design team headed by Vaibhav Kaley and assisted by Ravi Kamble kept working on developing a structural system and a complete building-solution which would be a standardized, modular and ready-to-assemble in nature.
   
   We developed the first sketch-proposal in April-May. We developed and generated computer models, actual models to understand the way system will behave in real. We then made some prototype of columns, truss to its actual size with the Ms-plate joinery complete.
   
   We made the first prototype at Peth in june’08. we could bring the whole system to some perfection. It still needs a lot of work before it can be said to be a system ready for mass-application.
   
   The system has evolved to a point where it can certainly be implemented and tested in the actual scale. The next step is to do a pilot-run of the systems in real life situation and refine it further.
   
   The last 3 months we have been concentrating our energies on design-development of two ‘Ready-to-Build’ building-solutions for a standard housing unit and a module for Staff-quarters for construction-workers.
   
   We have developed both the systems and is ready for application. The next step is to pilot run this system and refine it further to take it into market on large-scale.