Architect Sathya Prakash Varanashi says TERI's GRIHA rating considers many local issues, besides critical ideas like embodied energy, minimal ozone depleting materials, adapting efficient construction technology and accepting non-air conditioned buildings.

The Indian construction industry operates on a long delegation chain stretching from owner, manager and designer at the starting point to the helper at the other end. In between we have the builders, supervisors, sub-contractors, skilled personal, assistants, vendors, installation team and such others mostly operating on no singular set of guidelines. In such a rather complex system, maintaining inter-personal communication, reaching the right drawing to the right person in time and ensuring execution as per prescribed standards is a tough task.

Given this context, it is commendable that TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute) has been attempting to set out an agenda for green buildings through GRIHA (Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment). While most of the internationally devised rating systems have been tailored to suit the building industry of the country where they were developed.

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