r.e.Design, Asia’s first green real estate guide. Simon Carter, Regional Head of Sustainability (Asia Pacific) for Colliers International and author of the guide presented this initiative as an approach to redesign the building and a big challenge for the real estate world market in the context of climate crisis.
Since the recognition last year of the effect of human activities on global warming, preserving the environment is becoming a priority for nations. “We are just beginning to understand the challenge. We need a radical transformation of our economy and real estate has to face the challenge especially since a large part of greenhouse gas emissions is due to buildings,” explains Simon Carter. The 32-page guide aims at spreading information about green buildings.Indian real estate also looks slowly toward green buildings since few years.
In 2003, the country got its first green building in Hyderabad, certified as one of greenest building in the world.
Today India records 26 green buildings covering a total area of 11 million square feet. In Bangalore only one building got the green building label.
“The green concept requires first innovation”, explains Joe Verghese, “The challenge is to see what is appropriate to each building. We have to find local solutions which means for example in India to go back to traditional and ancestral techniques”.
ZELIHA CHAFFIN
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