India's largest conference & exhibition on Green Buildings & Built-Environment

India is witnessing tremendous growth in infrastructural development. The construction industry in the country is one of the largest economic activities. As the sector is growing rapidly, preserving the environment poses many challenges, but at the same time, offers new growth opportunities to the stakeholders.

Demand for energy, water, and materials for buildings, has been growing enormously over the years, and the need has arisen to address minimization of consumption of natural resources for building construction and the associated impact on the environment.

By constructing more green buildings, the construction sector can play a catalytic role in addressing environmental issues and concerns. "A green building is one which uses less water, improves energy efficiency, conserves natural resources, generates less waste, and provides healthier spaces for occupants, as compared to a conventional building."

CII Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre Hyderabad Lincoln House Property Mumbai
CII Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre, Hyderabad Bombay House, Mumbai

Green Building movement in the country
Indian Green Building Council (IGBC), part of CII, was formed in the year 2001. Since then, IGBC, with the support of all the stakeholders, is making concerted efforts in facilitating wider adoption and promotion of green buildings in the country.

India: 2nd country in the world with largest registered green building footprint
As on July 2016, India, with over 3.84 billion sq.ft. of green building footprint, is the second country in the world with the largest registered green building footprint. Over 3,800 projects are adopting IGBC's Green Building Rating Standards. IGBC has launched 14 green building rating systems to suit various building types.

Various types of buildings that are going the green way are airports, banks, colleges, convention centres, factories, hospitals, hotels, institutions, existing buildings, MRTS, malls, IT Parks, offices, residential houses, schools, SEZs, and townships. IGBC aspires to facilitate 10 billion sq.ft. of green building footprint by 2022 (75th year of Independent India).

Green Buildings make Good Business Sense
CRISIL House Hiranandani Powai IGBC
CRISIL House, Mumbai

One of the reasons why green buildings are widely adopted, is the fact that 'Green buildings make good business sense'. Though, the incremental cost of a commercial green building would be about 3-5%, the additional cost gets paid back within 2-3 years with substantial reduction in operational costs. This important proposition is enabling stakeholders go the Green Way.

Green Building Congress 2016: IGBC's 14th edition
Playing a catalytic role in taking forward the green building movement in India is IGBC's flagship event – the Green Building Congress. It is positioned as India's largest conference-cum-exhibition on green buildings and built-environment, and has been evoking excellent response from the stakeholders over the years.

This year, the 14th edition of Green Building Congress is scheduled to be held from 6 to 8 October, 2016 at Hotel Grand Hyatt, Mumbai. It would feature a 3-day international conference and exhibition. The theme this year is 'Sustainable Built Environment for All'. Over 150 leading National and International experts will converge at the 3-day event to share their thoughts and perspectives on how to pro- mote sustainable built environment for all.

The 3-day event would focus on the following:
  • Green Cities
  • Affordable Housing
  • Health & Well-being
  • Sustainable Mobility
  • Green Schools, Interiors
  • Green Metros, Apartments
  • Commercial Buildings
  • Smart Cities
  • Green Residential Societies
  • Performance Monitoring of Green Buildings
  • Landscaping & Bio-diversity
  • Case Studies, Best Practices
Green Building Congress 2016 would offer the following benefits (not limited to):
  • Awareness / update on latest concepts, trends, and technologies in green buildings from renowned speakers
  • Networking with architects, consultants, developers and material manufacturers
  • Explore new growth opportunities and forge national & international partnerships
  • Launch of new products
  • Opportunity to view over 100 latest, innovative, futuristic and emerging green building products & technologies
  • International & national case studies/success stories.

Glimpses of earlier editions of Green Building Congress

Green Building Congress