CHENNAI: India has made rapid strides in the Green Building movement in the last four years and has drawn up plans to emerge as one of the world leaders by 2010, said P.C. Jain, Chairman, CII Indian Green Building Council.
Addressing newspersons, he said that Tamil Nadu was spearheading the movement, followed by Hyderabad.
Incidentally, Chennai houses 15 out of the 83 green buildings in India, of which five have been certified. Grundfos is the first building to adopt the Green Building Concept (GBC) followed by Vestas Wind Technology, Olympia Technology Park and L&T EDRC. The first three buildings secured Gold rating and L&T Silver rating. A typical Green House will have environment-friendly carpets, recycled tiles, wood from certified forests, cement and bricks made out of fly-ash, non-toxic paint and zero discharge of water etc.
The CII-Godrej GBC building has been awarded the coveted Platinum Rating from US GBC under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) programme.
“In the next three years, Chennai is likely to have more than 100 buildings. State government officials are interested in replicating GBC in two of the offices before coming out with a ‘policy note’ on it. We are also talking with various State governments to popularise the GBC,” C.N. Raghavendran, Indian GBC Chairman, Chennai Chapter, told The Hindu on Friday.
“We are not asking everyone to aim for Platinum rating. Let them go for Gold. By investing three per cent more than the project cost, the builders can save a large amount of energy,” said CII Senior Director & Head, GBC, S. Raghupathy.
Green Building congress
CII-Sohrabji Green Business Centre is organising a Green Building congress (conference-cum-exhibition) from September 19 to 22 in Chennai. Agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan will be the chief guest at the inaugural session.
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