India’s continued economic development depends on providing more affordable, clean, and reliable energy and lessening the strain on current supplies, presenting an opportunity to real estate developers who can lock in energy and costs savings by building green. Green buildings and the concept of smarter living offers tremendous opportunity for overhauling an average Indian’s lifestyle.
As the general public becomes more aware of the benefits of green buildings, developers will get creative and find new ways to brand, market and sell green buildings, thereby, creating a conducive atmosphere for the sector to grow exponentially. One only hopes this frantic activity remains clean and green, the way it was envisioned to be, as there are multiple challenges.
The more innovation and compliances towards green building, more is the initial cost. The developer typically does not want to absorb the initial cost when the end-user is the one who reaps the benefits of it in long term.
The design of a green building relies on a lot of external factors, especially in terms of industry infrastructure. Till the entire infrastructure to support the requirements of a green building is not in place, it will not be very successful. The success of a green building hugely depends on integration of green policies at the design stages. The designing process followed in India tends to ignore the green factors to be considered at the onset of the project and comes later as an afterthought, so all stakeholders should act on this during the initial planning of the project.
The entire process of building is getting obsolete very fast. Since we are resistant to change, the Indian building industry takes a lot of time to absorb new technologies and new methods.
As the general public becomes more aware of the benefits of green buildings, developers will get creative and find new ways to brand, market and sell green buildings, thereby, creating a conducive atmosphere for the sector to grow exponentially
I admire...
The swirling green roof atop the Nanyang Technical University in Singapore, designed by Architects CPG Consultants, Singapore, sweeps a wooded corner of the campus with an organic, vegetated form that blends landscape and structure, nature and high-tech and symbolizes the creativity it houses. The glass façade provides a high-performance building envelope that reduces solar gain and heat load while allowing the benefits of natural views and daylight. The roofs serve as informal gathering spaces, insulate the building, cool the surrounding air, and harvest rainwater for landscaping irrigation. Concrete walls and columns, cement-sand screeded floors, timber railings, and a neutral palette define the interior spaces.
