The market in India may reach up to 10 billion sq.ft. by 2022. Although sustainable real estate is still in a nascent stage in the country, India is one of the leading countries in green building development. In fact, India ranks only second after the U.S. in terms of the Read more…
Majority of the infrastructure projects impose bad impacts on environment. Due to rapid urbanization in the country, the energy consumption is more than 60% in residential real estate projects. Green Building is the only solution which works towards achieving the sustainability. India has about 750+ LEED Certified projects as of Read more…
Non-renewable fuels, also called fossil fuels supply about 80 percent of the world’s total energy consumption. They provide electricity, heat, and transportation and much more. When fossil fuels are burned, they release carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, which in turn trap heat in our atmosphere, making them the chief contributors to global warming and climate Read more…
Improving the energy efficiency of buildings can help to improve the challenges (health hazards, cost of living, pollution and climate change) that a city/society face. Green buildings/Sustainable buildings play a vital role to make a city sustainable. There are Numerous Benefits that a sustainable building delivers to its society Environmental Read more…
Everything on Earth requires water to endure itself. But water is a limited resource and the population growth puts a stress on water supplies. Clean water is reduced by the pollution and contamination we create. In essence, humans are decreasing our own water supply due to pollution and by misusing Read more…
To enhance the environmental and human health performance attributes associated with freestanding furniture and medical furnishings LEED Certification rating system has introduced a credit entitled Furniture and medical furnishing under Material and resource credit. 1-2 points are awarded for this credit. This credit is applicable to healthcare Requirements Use at Read more…
It is known that freshwater sources are becoming threatened with the passage of time. If the present situation of water does not change and precautionary measures are not taken, then world will start to run out of fresh water by 2050. Rainwater harvesting is a sustainable process that helps in Read more…
Our buildings imposes a considerable impact on environmental health in its whole life. Although all the materials and products have not same impacts on environment. In order to evaluate these impacts we need to calculate the LCA of all the materials. This facilitates us to reduce the carbon footprints and Read more…
Commissioning of a building is a process of optimizing energy performance in an existing building or in a new development. Commissioning in many ways is a detailed and meticulous analysis of buildings energy usage and system efficiency. Commissioning process is designed to find out the issues which lead to wastage Read more…
LEED certification has put a special emphasis on alternative transportation. Following are the LEED credit and their points which comes under location and transport credit. The location and transport has following Requirement. To provide alternate transport and sharing Provisions of parking for the alternate transport vehicles eg. Electric bikes, bicycles Read more…