Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment Newsletter | December 2016 Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, awarded 3 star GRIHA rating The project has demonstrated a reduction of water consumption by 53.65% compared to base case scenario by installing low flow fixtures and 41.58% reduction in the embodied energy from the GRIHA base case. Over 67% of total living area is day-lit and meets daylight factor as prescribed by National Building Code. The LPD of the project is 6.96 W/sqm., which is lower than the ECBC specified LPD limit of 10.80 W/Sqm. Read more MP Police Housing Corporation signs MOU with GRIHA Madhya Pradesh Police Housing & Infrastructure Development Corporation (MPPH & IDC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with GRIHA Council to obtain the GRIHA Rating for all their upcoming large constructions. Read more Elon Musk Is Not the Only One, This Indian Startup Creates Solar Rooftops - from Waste Materials! Having a home is often described as "having a roof over your head," and rightly so! A roof is an important part of a house and an equally important determinant of the quality of life of its occupants. Over one billion people in slums and villages worldwide do not have safe, adequate roofing and rely on inferior quality and toxic metal and cement sheet roofs. Read more HPCL Administrative Building and Integrated Pipeline & Terminal Control Building, RKPL project, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh awarded 4 star SVAGRIHA rating The project has demonstrated a reduction of water consumption by 47.41% compared to base case scenario by installing low flow fixtures and 56% reduction in the embodied energy from the GRIHA base case. Over 83% of total living area is day-lit and meets daylight factor as prescribed by National Building Code. The LPD of the project is 6.68 W/sqm., which is lower than the ECBC specified LPD limit of 10.80 W/Sqm. Read more The Behavioral Economics of recycling We all know we should recycle, but even committed recyclers can be erratic, cleaning and sorting bottles one day, and tossing glass in the trash the next. Why? It turns out that an array of biases sway our decisions about what to place in the green bin and what to throw away. Read more Office Building of Design Associates Inc. awarded 5 star SVAGRIHA rating Four of the world's biggest cities are to ban diesel cars from their city centres by 2025, in order to improve air quality. The mayors of Paris, Madrid, Athens and Mexico City announced the plans at the C40 Mayors’ Summit on climate change. This bold move could lead other cities to take action, and help to accelerate a shift away from diesel. Read more These four cities are cracking down on diesel vehicles to improve air quality India’s reluctance to accept highly ambitious goals to check climate change may have stemmed from price concerns earlier, but the country is now ready to accept the challenges, according to Ajay Mathur, Director-General of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). Read more GRIHA Training Programmes Register your interest for training on GRIHA Register your products and projects Copyright © 2016 GRIHA Council GRIHA Council, 1st Floor, A - 260, Defence colony, New Delhi, 110024 (Ph : 011 4644 4500) If you do not wish to receive this newsletter, click on the Unsubscribe link below