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The Anangpur Building Centre is an entrepreneur Building Centre initiated in 1991 by Prof. Anil Laul, an architect by profession, who has been involved with pioneering work in the field of Appropriate Technologies for three decades. The Centre has been the forerunner of the Building Centre movement in India. The issues it addresses are right from the Brick as a basic element in building and its appropriateness to high-end technology structures such as Space Frames and Geodesics. Unfortunately, apart from high technology surfacing materials that have emerged over the years, the basic performance criterion required of a walling material remains unexplored. An analytical approach plus a re-examination of requirements of an appropriate walling material has resulted in surface-engineered walling blocks {impermeable diaphragm with lean back-up}, which have been successfully used by Anangpur Building Centre in several projects.