A two-day training programme was organised by GRIHA Council for students of DIT University, Dehradun undergoing B.Arch. degree.

On the day 1, a presentation on green buildings was delivered to impart knowledge to the students on green buildings, the rating process, criteria requirements, and compliance measures including good and bad practices under GRIHA version 2015. The presentation was followed by a Q&A session. A quiz was conducted and students were presented with pen drives as a token of appreciation.

On the second day, the students were taught to calculate daylighting in buildings. This was followed with an exercise where the students were given a building plan and were required to calculate daylighted areas for various rooms. The students were also trained in designing shading devices for windows. As an exercise, the students were asked to design shading devices for certain windows demarcated in the building plan. The exercise concluded with discussion on the same. Followed by this, an exercise was conducted on water calculations, wherein the students were given a hypothetical question having residential and commercial buildings with number of occupants and were asked to calculate water requirement, waste water generated, STP capacity and amount of water that can be reused. The students were also taken around the campus to calculate the noise, daylight and temperature in different areas of the University.

In the second half of Day 2, an exercise on 'Construction Management' was conducted for students. The students were given site plan of a project and were asked to prepare a PERT chart for various activities initiated during construction of a building. They were also asked to designate areas on the site plan for services such as site office, labour quarters, drinking water, material storage, soil erosion tanks, etc. Day 2 concluded with discussion with each team about their tasks.

The training programme ended with a vote of thanks by the faculty of DIT University.

Over 170 students from the university participated in the two day programme. The students were enthusiastic throughout the training programme and learnt from the lectures and exercise. Certificates of participation were distributed to students at the end of the second day from GRIHA Council.