Sustainable Built Environment

AND

GRIHA
(Green Rating For Integrated Habitat
Assessment)

BY
GROUP-1
A RC H I TEC TU RE DEPA RTM EN T
( M.ARCH I 1ST YEAR)
Structure OF Presentation

 What is a green building?

 Elements of sustainable habitat
 Energy balance
 Characteristics of Green Buildings
 GRIHA-Introduction
 Genesis of Rating System
 GRIHA Variants
 GRIHA and its Criterion
 How to design a green building?
 SVAGRIHA
 CASE STUDY
WHAT IS A GREEN BUILDING?
The greenest possible habitat would strive to achieve the
following:
• Optimize demand for electricity, water and other natural resources(inconstruction,
operation and demolition)
• Generate all its electricity on site through renewable means
• Cater to all its water demands through sustainable processes such as rain water
harvesting Grow its own food on site
• Recycle and reuse all its waste on site and burden the environment to the minimum.

We often refer to this process of design as “closing the loop”. In other words, striving
to generate and utilize on-site resources to construct and operate the building and
then ensuring that all the waste material is managed on-site itself, thereby leaving
nothing (if possible) to be put into the municipal systems.
IN THE INDIAN CONTEXT, A BUILDING IS
'GREEN' WHEN

It is designed using an integrated approach (as mentioned

in NBC, Part 0)
It provides its users with an “optimal” level of comfort
catering to local needs (as per NBC-Part 8)
It uses minimum resources, sourced locally (as per various IS
codes and other local materials)
It consumes minimum energy and water (as per ECBC and
NBC)
It generates optimum waste, processed locally (as per CPCB,
and MoEF norms)
... during its construction, operation and demolition (i.e., over its
entire life cycle)
ELEMENTS OF SUSTAINABLE HABITAT
Built Environment
Buildings
Choice of materials
Location of Building
Smart Buildings (bldgs. as
generators of energy)
Efficient appliances and fixtures
Surroundings
Optimal allocation of land
Transport systems and
infrastructure
Environmental management
- Water &waste
Energy security – renewable
sources and energy efficiency
 Energy balance

Sustainable Energy

Demand Supply
• Day lighting integration in
design External lighting Energy generation
(Street, landscaping, architectural)
• Natural ventilation / thermal from REenergy
comfort
• Efficient building envelop Building lighting • Solar
design (Day lighting &Artificial lighting) • Wind
• Bio Gas
• Efficient indoor and external Building space • Geo thermal
lighting fixtures conditioning
• Automatic controls
• Efficient HVAC systems
Equipment
• Equipment to meet ECBC (Transformer/pumps/motors etc.)
standards
CHARACTERISTICS OF GREEN AND
SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS

• Efficient management of energy and water

resources
• Management of material resources and waste
• Restoration and protection of environmental
quality
• Enhancement and protection of health and
indoor environmental quality
• Reinforcement of natural systems
• Analysis of the life cycle costs and benefits of
materials and methods
• Integration of the design decision-making
process
GRIHA-GREEN RATING FOR INTEGRATED
HABITAT ASSESSMENT

Tool to facilitate design, construction, operation

of a green building ,and in turn ….measure
“greenness” of a building in India

What gets measured gets managed

GREEN BUILDING RATING SYSTEM IN INDIA :

There are currently two rating system being used:

• LEED (Leadership in energy and environmental design)
• GRIHA (Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment).

GRIHA – GREEN RATING FOR INTEGRATED HABITAT ASSESSMENT

• GRIHA is developed by TERI (The energy and resources Institute) for the ministry of
new and Renewable energy. This is the indigenous national rating system
developed by the ministry to cover the climatic variations, architectural practices,
existing practices of construction and attempting to revive the passive architecture.

• GRIHA rating system takes into account the provisions of the National Building
Codes 2005 , The energy conservation Building Code 2007 announced by BEE and
other IS codes.

• The rating system based on accepted energy and environmental principles, seeks
to strike a balance between the established practices and emerging concepts,
both national and international .

• GRIHA MEANING:GRIHA is a Sanskrit word meaning ‘Abode’. GRIHA promotes

passive techniques to reduce energy cost while keeping the optimum thermal
comfort inside the build environment.
• WHAT DOES GRIHA DO ?
 They encourage non energy demanding air conditioning systems and
the solar heating systems. Passive cooling and heating can be
replicated for the masses and can reduce the energy load of the
country.

 GRIHA is also focusing on the growing residential sector by providing

simple, affordable and versatile approach to the citizens through their
website, which is instrumental in creating awareness among citizens as
well as giving them an alternative viewpoint.

 GRIHA is also focusing on promoting energy efficiency in existing

buildings in urban areas which will in return reduce energy
demand.
GRIHA attempts to minimize a building’s resource consumption, waste
generation, and overall ecological/ environmental impact by comparing
them to certain nationally acceptable limits / benchmarks.
It does so, adopting the five ‘R’ philosophy of sustainable
development, namely

1. Refuse – to blindly adopt international trends, materials,

technologies, products, etc. Specially in areas where local
substitutes/equivalents are available
2. Reduce – the dependence on high energy products,
systems, processes, etc.
3. Reuse – materials, products, traditional technologies, so
as to reduce the costs incurred in designing buildings as well as in operating
them
4. Recycle – all possible wastes generated from the
building site, during construction, operation and demolition
5. Reinvent – engineering systems, designs, and practices
such that India creates global examples that the world can follow rather
than us following international examples
VARIANTS OF GRIHA

SVAGRIHA GRIHA GRIHA LD

100 – 2499 2500 – > 50 hectare

sqm 1,50,000 sqm site area
KEY HIGHLIGHTS OF GRIHA

•Sets out guidelines for design, construction and operation

•Combination of qualitative and quantitative criteria

•Sets performances benchmarks for key resources like, energy

and water

•Facilitates integration of traditional knowledge on architecture with present

day technology

•Integrates all relevant Indian codes and standards(e.g National building

code 2005, Energy Conservation Building Code 2007, IS codes)

•Is in complete alignment with government policies and

programs (e.g Environmental clearance by the MoEF)
 GENESIS GRIHA LD
GRIHA
Capacity android app
CPWD
adopts building –
TERIRetreat TERI- GRIHA ECBC GRIHA GRIHA
certified
Trainers and
Evaluators

2000
2005 2007 2007 2009 2010 2011 2011 2013

…2000 2001 2008 2009 2011 2012

SVAGRIHA
Product
catalogue
Setting up
Advent of LEED: CII- of ADaRSH GRIHA
Over 100 Sorabhji Godrej adopted by
audits Green Business NMSH PCMC
Centre, Hyderabad-
Platinum Rated
GRIHA RATING SYSTEM

Set of 34 criteria
100 (+4 innovation points)
Point system with differential weight age on
various
Criteria

50-60
61-70
71-80
81-90
91-100
Revised point weight ages: The points assigned to different criteria have
been modified based on survey conducted to better reflect current
resource priorities of India. The point split of various sections is given
below:
HOW TO DESIGN A GREEN BUILDING?

1. By adopting the integrated design approach such that the client, architect,
engineers, and consultants design the building in a coordinated manner with a
common goal – sustainability.
2.. By following regional development plans (such as the UDPFI guidelines, master
plans) and local building by-laws
3. By following India’s national codes and standards
4. By optimizing site conditions (trees, water bodies, wind-flow, orientation, etc.) and
harnessing them to cater to the thermal / visual comfort requirements of the
building
5. By adopting sound architectural practices and taking examples from India’s
traditional architecture
6. By adopting locally available construction materials and giving impetus to
localarts, crafts, architecture and artisans
7. By designing precisely- sized energy systems and not basing them on
broad thumb-rules
8. By reducing the resource consumption of the building and its inhabitants so that
the waste generating there-from is reduced
9. By adopting energy efficient technologies (EETs) and equipment
10.. By adopting renewable energy technology (RETs) applications to reduce
the demand on conventional energy
 SVAGRIHA
SVAGRIHA is a guidance-cum-rating system being developed for small
stand alone buildings like residences, commercial offices, motels,
dispensaries, schools etc. and/or set of buildings with a cumulative built-
up area of 2500 sq.m. or less.

SVAGRIHA
RATING SYSTEM
CRITERION POINTS
DISTRIBUTION

•SVAGRIHA will be applicable only for

projects which are less than 2500 sq.m. built-
up area.
•The rating system has 14 criteria.
•The criteria are divided into 5 broad sub-
groups-namely:
1. architecture & energy,
2. water & waste,
3. materials,
4. landscape and
5. lifestyle.
•It will be mandatory to attempt certain
points under each sub-group. This has been
listed on a later page.
•The total points that a project can achieve
are 50
•The rating will be done on a 1-5 star scale.
CREDIT POINTS DISTRIBUTION
In order to get a rating, it is mandatory for each project to achieve a certain
number of minimum points in each category as mentioned below.
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