A Sustainable Building can take part in city's sustainable growth.

ABOUT GRIHA

TERI's green building rating system GRIHA (Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment) has been developed as an instrumental tool to evaluate and rate the environmental performance of a building. GRIHA is an evaluation tool to help design, build, operate, and maintain a resource-efficient built environment. It evaluates the environmental performance of a building holistically over its entire life cycle, thereby providing a definitive standard for what constitutes a “GREEN BUILDING”.

GRIHA has 34 criteria listed under varied sub-headings such as site selection and planning, building envelope design, building system design, selection of ecologically sustainable materials, integration of renewable energy, indoor environmental quality, conservation and efficient utilization of resources, building maintenance and innovation points. There also are provisions for large developments, pre-qualification and such others.

GREEN BUILDING- MYTHS AND CHALLENGES

There are various myths regarding the green building implementation. One example is the myth that sustainability costs more, which ignores recent research as well as the reality that for any society to thrive and prosper, it must seek to create a healthy balance between its environmental, social, and economic dimensions as sustainability is not just about building green but building a healthy community and sustaining a quality of life.

Although green building has made tremendous strides in the past few years, there remain many who still are unconvinced of its benefits due to numerous myths and misconceptions floating around the main stream construction.

Green buildings often lack the aesthetic quality of conventional buildings
Green building products are often difficult to find
Green building products do not work as well as the traditional ones
Building green is too difficult and complicated

It is difficult or not possible to convert existing conventional buildings into energy efficient buildings

In reality, it is proven that all these myths are the misconceptions of the people, all it needs it better implementation and educating the people about the concepts and contexts of building green. GRIHA has worked with government construction departments such as Central Public Works Department (CPWD) and has revised their schedules and specifications to adhere to GRIHA requirements, with particular emphasis on Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC).

http://www.grihaindia.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=104

http://www.teriin.org/about-teri

http://www.grihaindia.org/files/news-23Aug_Times-of-India.pdf

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