Ranganathan Architecture College, Coimbatore is registered with GRIHA as a Gold member under the GRIHA CATALYST membership. Under the ambit of this membership, an online half day awareness programme was conducted on 16th May, 2022.

The programme was designed to facilitate the students to develop an understanding on GRIHA and create awareness on general concepts and processes under GRIHA and its variants. The programme commenced with a presentation on the major environmental challenges faced due to today’s building sector and the need to create green buildings. This was followed by an overview of GRIHA rating system and its variants, highlighting the intent of the sections and their criteria. Case studies under the GRIHA, SVAGRIHA and GRIHA EB variant were also presented by the representatives of the project team, to give the participants an insight on how projects have been benefitted by adopting GRIHA as a rating tool.

The programme received an overwhelming response and was attended by more than 140 students.