Onkar G on July 18, 2021 No Comments
Green buildings are those buildings which are resource efficient both in terms of their design and operation. Institutes such as GRIHA provide evaluation as well as consultancy services to facilitate the development of green buildings.
Living in a 5-star rated house or working out of a green building might have sounded as something preposterous a few years ago but today, the trend is catching up fast. Sustainability is something that concerns millennials as well as baby boomers of this day and age equally. But there are solutions.
Institutes such as GRIHA (Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment) — a not-for-profit organization established jointly by TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute) and MNRE (Ministry of New and Renewable Energy) and India’s National Rating System for green buildings — provide evaluation as well as consultancy services to facilitate the development of green buildings. They evaluate the environmental performance of a building based on quantitative and qualitative criteria. But, what are g ..
green buildings, why do we need them and what’s all the fuss about sustainability?
The 11th GRIHA Summit was organised in New Delhi on 17-18 December 2019 in collaboration with GRIHA Council and UNSW, Sydney. Speaking to ET at the summit on Tuesday, Sanjay Seth, CEO, GRIHA Council, explained the nitty-gritty of the industry to help understand what green buildings are all about ..
Talking about sustainability, Seth said, “sustainability is that you bring in resource efficiency in everything.” Focussing on building construction, he put across an introspective statement saying: “When constructing a building, where are you taking the material from? Sand, stone, all of this. From Earth. It is important that we don’t use up natural resources. We should try and see what we can do to be taking away less from the planet. Achieving more with less. That’s the idea.”
Further, he informed us that the government has already set the norms and many government buildings are leading by example. For example, the Maharashtra government has signed an agreement with GRIHA Council to ensure that all their buildings constructed in the future would be compliant to GRIHA standards. UIDAI’s (Aadhaar) head office in Delhi is a 5-star rated GRIHA building. Upon realising the benefits of it, they have said that it would be ensured that all their 8 regional offices across the ..
When asked about GRIHA’s proliferation rate, Seth told us that the organization has footprints all over the country which includes Maharashtra, Haryana, Delhi NCR, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and several other states where major constructions are happening. Several private developers such as IREO, Bestech, DLF, Mahindra, Godrej, Vatika etc. have also partnered with GRIHA to ensure that whatever they construct is green, he added.
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