Need for re-look at Green Building Rating Systems

Buildings, accounting for 30-40 per cent of global energy use, are known to be energy guzzlers. In India, buildings account for 30% of total energy consumption. With growing concerns about the increasing energy water and material use in the building sector, green building movement started in early 90s in US and Europe. However in India, it gained momentum in India a few years back only.



A green building is an outcome of a design which focuses on increasing the efficiency of resource use – energy, water and materials – while reducing building impacts on human health and the environment through better sitting, design, construction, operation, maintenance and removal. In India, a few rating systems exist currently which assesses the building design and operation on different categories like energy consumption, water consumption, material use, air quality etc. Depending on the measures taken, points are awarded under each category. Points obtained under each category are further added to arrive at the total points, which decide the final green building rating.

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Source: IndiaInfoOnline, 2010-03-04, Link