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Dear riends,

I am extremely pleased to share with you some thoughts in the inaugural issue

o the Sustainable Habitats newsletter. This publication will highlight innovative

and diverse activities, both within and outside TERI that promote a sustainable

urban uture.

Sustainable habitats critically require simultaneous macro and micro level

approaches. These include promoting green buildings using sustainable materials

and construction practices, as well as scaling them up to plan sustainable cities

and urban ecosystems. Geographical actors and their explicit inclusion come to

the ore when designing and constructing sustainable habitats. This is particularlyimportant in developing countries where vulnerable populations lack basic shelter

and services.

Over 50% o the worlds population already resides in cities and it is important

or us to initiate actions that improve the quality o lie through integrated urban

planning and eective environmental management. This year, UN HABITAT

has highlighted the theme, Better City, Better Lie or the World Habitat Day

(4 October 2010). Additionally, the World Health Organization (WHO) selected

Impact o Urbanization on Health as the subject or its annual World Health

Day. Both these themes signal the importance o promoting a higher quality o lie

through measurable environmental and health benets in our cities.

Urban sustainability means many things; its multiple dimensions include

buildings, the natural environment, and the delivery o basic services, among other

components. In India, a sustainable city entails careul management o natural

and cultural resources with economic and social realities, maintaining equity and

eciency as well as protecting uture generations, ecosystems, and resources.

Our cities will be a test or the uture; whether we can make them productive

and healthy sites that integrate with the ecosystem, have minimal impact on the

environment, and achieve maximum eciency o resources. There is no single

denition or uniorm set o generic benchmarks or a livable city. With rapid

urbanization and an increasing percentage o the population projected to live

in cities, our relationship with the built and the natural environments we live in

must change.

All individuals have a role to play; we can address these issues rom a top down

policy approach and a bottom up recognition that individual actions and behaviour

ultimately aect urban challenges, like dealing with climate change. There is anurgent need to promote shared learning, knowledge transers on best practices,

and lessons rom around the world. It is with this in mind that the Sustainable

Habitats newsletter embarks upon a mission to disseminate inormation to

various stakeholders.

Without recognition o the importance o basic preparedness and appropriate

inrastructure, our cities would hardly provide an improved quality o lie. Nor

would we achieve a sustainable uture or humanity. We, thereore, need to strive

towards improved and sustainable habitats as an essential goal or livable cities.

Dr R K PachauriDirector-General, TERI

Perspectives 2Message from

Mili Majumdar

Field Notes 4Case Studies of Livability

in Indian Cities: AuroillesArhitetural

Tradition

DelhiNullahsProjet

Discussion 6 SustainableBuildings

intheIndianontext

Chitra K Vishawanath

SustainableHabitats

Krishna Rao Jaisim

GRIHA 8

Events 9Call for Articles 11

About TERI 12

Volume 1 Issue 1 October 2010

susTAINAblE HAbITATsA quarterly newsletter from the Sustainable Habitats Division of The Energy and Resources Institute

CONTENTS

LivabLe Cities

ATERIPubliation


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This month, our newsletter explores the concept o

livable cities, in support o World Habitat day and

its theme Better City, Better Lie. In thinking

about what a livable city means, it is important to survey

global urban experiences with regard to quality o lie and

issues o livability. In a city, livability involves a plethora

o issues: saety, education, hygiene, healthcare, culture,

environment, recreation, political and economic stability,

and public transport.

Mega games and sporting events can promote and pose

an obstacle to livable cities. This raises questions o livability

and how ones city can best be showcased to outsiders.

Various cities, at dierent points o time, have become

more livable or their citizens when they have availed o the

opportunities to upgrade the quality o lie or its residents

and visitors. To mark the 2010 Expo, the city o Shanghai

witnessed advanced planning and inrastructure upgrading.

I was privileged to be part o one o their planning exercise

held ten years ago, wherein the city had envisioned the

urban challenges that the expo would pose and started

thinking and acting on them well in advance. Similarly,

Beijing underwent huge eorts last year to prepare itsel orthe Olympic Games. The question then becomes, whose

livability is being promotedtourists, citizens, vulnerable

populations? And, how can it provide the greatest benets

to the largest number o people?

This year the Canadian city o Vancouver hosted the

Winter Olympics. It has consistently ranked as one o the

most livable cities in the world or the multiaceted way in

which it promotes quality o lie or its citizens. Nevertheless,

the city availed o the opportunity to renew and upgrade

itsel or the sporting event, and as a result invested in the

Message froM MiLi MajuMdar

Director, Sustainable Habitats Division, TERI

long-term well being o its citizens. In terms o comparable

deliverables, however, Delhi continues to ace widespread

criticism over the planning and construction or the

Commonwealth Games. This refects the lack o ownership

and cohesion amongst its citizens, and perhaps a lack o

integrated planning and implementation approach on part

o the civic bodies.

We should all take pride in the opportunity that

the Games oer us to upgrade our quality o lie in the

long term, rather than taking a shortsighted view o

criticisms and ocusing on what has gone wrong. Although

construction or the Commonwealth Games village began

almost on time, livability o the village, its inhabitants, and

visiting athletes remains questionable ater construction

has ended. The building complex has incorporated several

green and environment-riendly concepts, implemented

meticulously throughout the project implementation

process. Despite these eorts and huge investments, the

project continues to be criticized. This demonstrates that in

spite o good intentions, the success o a project lies in how

it is conceptualized and implemented, rom start to nish.

It highlights the need to maintain and manage these spacesater construction processes are completed.

Instead o dwelling on the undesirable aspects, Delhiites

should collectively demand and participate in policy and

planning priorities through properly implemented projects.

We need to take pride in our cities, and projecting our city

positively is a core component to imagining and enabling

a sustainable and livable urban uture. Without availing

o the opportunities presented, we risk the undesirable

consequence o an unlivable and unsustainable city.

PERSPEcTIvES

Image credit: 2010, Lalit Dalal Image credit: 2010, Lalit Dalal Image credit: 2009, John W. Burkhart


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What i a livable city?The concept o a livable city is dicult to encompass in a single denition. The term usually reers to the inhabitants

quality o lie, as enabled by the city. Its expanded denition includes environmental health and the well-being

o inhabitants.

In his introduction to the book Livable Cities? Urban struggles or livelihood and sustainability, Peter Evans

writes, The coin o livability has two aces. Livelihood is one o them. Ecological sustainability is the other.

Livelihood means jobs close enough to decent housing with wages commensurate with rents and access to the

services that make or a healthul habitatEcological degradation buys livelihood at the expense o quality o lie...

Analysing livability also means transposing political ecology debates about sustainability and social justice rom

elds and orests to the streets, actories, and sewers o the built environment.

LIVABLE CITY: Almre, NetherlandIn 2008, the municipality o Almre in the Netherlands prepared a unique sustainability ramework in collaboration with

architect William McDonough to guide its uture urban development. The principles envision an ecologically, socially,

and economically sustainable city by 2030. They encourage economic, social, and ecological diversity, connecting place

and context to improve relationships amongst urban communities, and raising awareness o the complex relationshipsbetween humans, natural, and built environments. They also highlight the importance o fexibility and resilience in

order to anticipate uture challenges, encourage experimentation as well as innovation to support urban processes and

inrastructure, and promote cradle-to-cradle solutions or ecological, environmental, and social health. The Almre

Principles emphasize empowering inhabitants and encouraging their participation to make the city.

(Source: The Almre Principles)

TERI Reearch An explratin f utainability in the prviin f baic urban ervice inIndian citieIn 2008, TERI began its rst ever work on an integrated approach to sustainability issues and solutions in Indian

cities. Comprising a team o experts drawn rom various sectors, this project explored sustainability in provision obasic urban services in Indian cities as a rst and key step to making Indian cities sustainable.

The aim o the study was to achieve the ollowing.

Identifywhatsustainabilityineachsectorimplies

Proposeaframeworkofparametersandindicatorstoassesssustainabilityofthesesectors

AnalysetheexistingsituationinIndiancitieswithregardtotheidentiedparameters

Proposerecommendationswithsupportingpolicy,legalandorganizationalarrangements,anddataandcapacity

requirements in order to operationalize the identied sustainability related parameters in Indian cities or each

sector

The study examined the ollowing urban sectors.

Waterandwastewater

Solidwastemanagement

Transport

Buildings

Power

Governance

The study devised denitions o sustainability per sector as well as detailed recommendations or policy-makers to

increase the sustainable provision o these services. The nal report released in April 2009 was well received by the

Government o India and has been widely disseminated amongst state and city governments.


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Aurville Architectural Traditin

Located in Puducherry (ormerly Pondicherry) on

Indias Coromandel Coast, the town o Auroville

is a model or environmentally sustainable building

practices in India. Rooted in a tradition o environmental

activism, architects ocus on sustainable construction,

green buildings, environmental management, and planning

priorities. Given its diverse population and a growing

international community, it serves as an experimental site

to implement sustainable practices.Auroville was ounded in 1968 and promotes the vision

o The Mother rom the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. It is known

globally or its work to promote social and environmental

sustainability. Auroville is unique in its successul attempts

at promoting sustainable practices and ecologically-

responsible living in India, dating to the 1960s when

residents began planting trees to revitalize the land and

promote rainwater harvesting. This legacy has ostered a

space to explore innovative solutions that address global

challenges such as deorestation and energy and resource

management. The town promotes sustainable building and

construction practices in the context o an environmentally

sustainable township.

Auroville has beneted rom being small, with low levels

o urbanization. However, planners ace the challenge o

crating a master plan or a town o 50 000 Indian and

international inhabitants, which tends to confict with existing

land use and human settlement patterns. Architects and

design consultants have set up an Integrated Green Practices

FIELDNOTES

Image credit: Auroville Green Practices Portal

Case studies of LivabiLity in indian Cities

Portal website to serve as a knowledge sharing resource. It

seeks to engage practitioners rom around the world who are

interested in participating, learning or implementing similar

goals o environmentally-responsible living. The website

encourages global engagement to implement Aurovilles

vision o environmental responsibility into a reality.

The Auroville tradition o experimentation and practice

refects the creativity and innovation o its inhabitants,

and refects the benets o constructing reely without

stifing building regulations. Many architects here

ocus on ensuring that materials and processes are asenvironmentally-sensitive and sustainable as possible.

They are known to use a range o building technologies

and orms. Community participation guides sustainable

construction practices in the town and stems rom a legacy

o environmental awareness. The tradition integrates a

variety o styles, which seek to minimize ecological impact

and, thereore, enhance the quality o lie o inhabitants.

Construction practices and plans range rom building

thatch houses with reinorced concrete, single homes,

apartment complexes, and public buildings. Indigenous

materials and knowledge traditions are used and adapted

while experimenting with technologies like reinorced

earth blocks and erro-cement.

The towns holistic approach to habitats and livability

oers key best practices such as working with indigenous

materials and involving communities. The tradition extends

the sustainability o buildings to the community, and

refects the benets o integrated, uture-oriented planning

to implement shared visions or a sustainable uture.

learnmore: green.aurvilleprtal.rg


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The Delhi Nullah Prject

The Delhi Nullahs is an urban renewal project

conceptualized by architecture rm Morphogenesis.

It aims to transorm Delhis antique, sewage-

laden open storm water networks into a blueprint or

sustainable transport, environmental management, and

cultural interaction in cities. It seeks to do so by reusing and

revitalizing the citys ancient and neglected water drainage

networks.

Nullah is a Hindi term or ravines that traditionally served

as open storm water canals. The 700-year-old, 350-km-

long networks have now become increasingly problematic.

Particularly during the monsoons, these nullahs tend

to overfow with garbage as well as sewage. They emit a

strong odour, oer breeding sites or mosquitoes, and run

pollutants into the Yamuna River.

In response to these and other livability issues,Morphogenesis began exploring how an intervention to

revitalize the nullahs would renew and ultimately transorm

the surrounding spaces. Revitalizing the nullah networks

could directly address several urban challenges experienced

in the city. This would occur by transorming the nullah

network into new sites or alternative transportation,

cultural interaction, and environmental sustainability.

To address air pollution and problems stemming rom

Delhis car dependence, the nullah network would re-

connect historically navigable spaces within the city. The

revamped network would enable alternate, sustainable

transport options; it could serve as walking or bicycle routes

and point-to-point links or mass public transport options

like metro, train, and buses. Envisioned as a green network,

trees planted alongside the nullahs would oer shade and

evaporative cooling to pedestrians, among other benets.

The renewed nullah networks could catalyse cultural

interactions within the city by promoting alternative

liestyles and historic-cultural links. Given the historic

plans o the city, many major cultural venues in Delhi

could be connected via the nullahs alternative transport

network. Revitalized urban public areas would open up

new spaces or social and cultural interactions. Linking

historic monuments, concert halls, and art galleries wouldallow citizens and visitors to navigate the city while directly

engaging with history and public art, or instance.

To address the environmental impact o improper

drainage, the nullahs could serve as a route to clean its

drain system, thereby alleviating the pressure on Delhis

environmental resources. The project website highlights

that, By treating sewage on-site in micro STPs rather than

at the river, wastewater can be reused rather than discarded

into the river. I this happens, 80% o the pollution in the

Yamuna River will disappear, urther allowing wildlie to

thrive again. Native plants can be used to slow the suraceruno and allow storm water to inltrate back into the

ground to recharge the water table rather than into the storm

sewers. Improving the drainage network would prevent

fooding and reduce the risk o water-borne diseases.

The project promotes several quality o lie parameters

green public spaces, cultural networks, and opportunities to

walk and bicycle in the city. Combining planning and renewal

to create hygienic, environmentally sustainable, and livable

spaces is a crucial, creative endeavour or Indias capital. The

renewed nullahs could transorm Delhi into a more livable

city rom multiple practical dimensionsusing existing

waste systems and underused land to recycle and recreate.

Restoring these nullahs is an opportunity to revitalize and

strengthen Delhis historic networks or a sustainable uture,

driven by alternative and democratic engagement within

the city.

learnmore: www.delhinullah.rg

Image credit: Morphogenesis Image credit: Morphogenesis Image credit: Morphogenesis


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CHITRA K VISHAWANATH is the Managing Director o Biome Environmental

Solutions Pvt. Ltd. She completed a Nigerian National Diploma in Architecture in

1984 and a Bachelor o Architecture rom the Centre or Environmental Planning and

Technology in Ahmedabad, India in 1989. Since the beginning o her career, Chitra has

been an ardent ecological architect with a commitment to sustainable architecture. Her

practice has spanned 15 years and she has executed close to 500 residential, institutional,

and tourism projects. Chitra is an advisor with the non-governmental organization

(NGO) KILIKILI, which works with the city and parents groups to urther the cause o

inclusive play in public parks and spaces.

sustainabLe buiLdings in the indian Context

As we try to encourage the sustainable buildingmovement across India based on our experiences

over the last 20 years, here are some points to

consider:

The sustainable movement seems to have developed a ocus

on institutional buildings; emphasis should also be placed

on homes and residences across India. Individual, single

storey, and double storey residences are mushrooming in

areas where inrastructure and employment opportunities

exist. This is a large base, which certainly needs to ollowsustainable principles.

Sustainable local resourcesmaterials, labour, and

skillsneed to be mapped and used. We have ound earth

to be a wonderul material; incorporating it into design and

construction, or example by scooping earth out rom a

basement and making earth blocks or rammed earth, can

achieve great savings on energy and ecological resources.

Skill sets in sustainable buildings need to be developed

at stages including design, engineering, and construction to

respond to the need.

Externalities o the damage that building materials cause

need to be addressed through local sustainable sourcing:

mining o sand rom riverbeds, damage to lakes and tanks

rom brick making, and the use o wood rom old orests,

or example. The market price o materials should account

or ecological costs and the miner/manuacturer should in

turn invest in sustainable mining/manuacturing practices.

The socio-economic benets and economic stimulus

that sustainable buildings bring should be highlighted to

win greater support rom policy-makers. Employment

opportunities created in earth buildings oer greater value

addition to labour through improved wages or improvedskills; they are also less detrimental to health since it does

not involve painting.

Sustainable buildings have to be encouraged through

local building by-laws, which permit and make legal all

components o the design and materials. In Bengaluru,

basements used to be illegal or residential homes; now,

they have been legalized but not in a ocused manner, such

as with design requirements that encourage the use o the

scooped-out earth.

Financial incentives come through serendipity such as

less property tax on buildings built with earth and tilesconsidered part o a poor mans home. These need to be

incentivized by capturing the positive externalities and the

inherent benets they bring to society, and transerring

some o the benets to the building owner. These can be

through sot loans or tax breaks.

Local resources such as water (through rainwater

harvesting), wastewater (through wastewater treatment and

recycling), and energy (through solar, wind, biogas, and os

on) can all be optimized; but, the scale o sustainability

needs a larger ramework o encouragement. For example,

rainwater harvesting being mandated in Bengaluru has

enabled its incorporation into all buildings, while saving

considerably on water requirements and reducing the

ecological ootprint.

In short, social, technical, institutional, nancial, legal, and

ecological rameworks must be simultaneously developed

and made to work together to ensure sustainable buildings

on a greater scale.

DIScUSSION


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KRISHNA RAO JAISIM is a proessor, patron, and ounder o the architecture rm

Jaisim-Fountainhead. He graduated rom the Madras Christian College School in 1961

and worked under Sri Krishna Chitale at L M Chitale & Sons, Chartered Architects rom

19661970. In 1970, he ounded Jaisim-Fountainhead, which expanded rapidly and

won numerous awards. He established Jaisim-Fountainhead Projects Pvt. Ltd in 2001

to promote architectural practices and alternative approaches. Jaisim is the recipient o

several awards, including the JK Award-Architect o the Year: 1992 and the Lietime

Achievement Award: 2007 rom CNBC Awaaz. He has presented and published

over 150 papers.

sustainabLe habitats

In 2000, a whole new scenario opened up in India.I one refected on the early part o the last century,

the word architecture was only a conversation piece

amongst the elite. People were not aware o it; at best, they

heard whispers o parks, palaces, and Luxor as spaces o the

privileged. In India, the study o architecture was evident

only in the thirties, stuttered in the ties, bloomed in the

eighties and nineties, and now strains to explode through

schools all over the country. It is immaterial whether there

are teachers to teach and students to study; the demand or

architects in their various avatarsrom urban designers to

interior designersis growing at unthinkable speeds. One

can hardly tread careully; it is a rush to outdo each other.

Art and technology whose integration is the very essence

o architecture are barely able to hold each others hands,

leave alone their minds. Amidst this rush, a new awareness

and consciousness cropped up. Intellectual minds and the

media emerged out o its slumber to ask the question

what are we doing to our environment?

Population explosion and urbanization became

buzzwords. For the rst time, bureaucrats and politicians

were at a total loss. Independent India shited gears and

surged into automatic without any comprehendible

rhyme or reason. As the Gross Domestic Product (GDP)grew, people en masse shited classes and their anchors.

Agriculture was no longer the diktat. Yes, the monsoons

still play a part, but it is more political than actual reality.

Urbanization, not only o the major metropolises, but also

o second and third tier cities has surged with such rapidity

that the process o metamorphosis lost control. Everyone

was everywherethe carpetbagger to the opportunistic

politician and the rule-binding bureaucrats made hay.

Industry and business egged by media and marketing gurus

were on 24 x 7, anything anytime as long as there was a quickbuck to be made. This was the time realtors, like vultures,

had been waiting or. They swooped in, encouraged by the

moneybags and banks, to grab and exploit any land within

sight while nave people were pushed. Easy loans with

low interest rates bonded the simple human or lie. Like

herds, they were pushed into condominiums and low and

high rises. I any showed a sense o discernment, they were

placated with Interior design changes, external landscapes,

and clubs that lled their egos.

Habitatwhat is it all about? Ekisticsthe science and

art o human habitation or decent living could only smile.

What is a neighbourhoodwhat are values that make lie

worth living? How is the human dierent rom all other

creatures on this Earth? He is the only creature who needs

care, clothing, and shelter apart rom the ve elements and

in addition entertainment and the will to live a ull lie.

One cannot guarantee joy and happiness. But, it is certainly

possible to have a healthy living environment. Why and

what makes an Indian keep his/her home clean within,

and so dirty, lthy, and shabby beyond? Questions keep

racing and coherence and disconnect creep in. Where does

one start and how does one sustain what one somehow

has managed to design and give positive meaning to? Whatis the architects role? Can he make a dierence? Will the

builderrealtorpolitician nexus even dream o allowing

this? There are too many questions and hurdles. Answers are

ew and ar between. But, the challenge must be appreciated

and aced. This is one proession with the ability to make

abstraction use with reality. It is this value-add to every

human amily that will make any proud individuals soul

to shoutyes, it is worth living. From the poorest through

the middle class to the riches, home is where the heart is.


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GRIHA

The Green Rating or Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA) is the National Rating System o India.

It was conceived by TERI and developed jointly with the Ministry o New and Renewable Energy,

Government o India. It is a green building design evaluation system, suitable or all kinds o buildings

in dierent climatic zones o the country. Seventy projects have been registered by GRIHA and the

rating is currently used to evaluate institutional, commercial, and residential buildings.

Message froM siva KishanCEO of GRIHA

The GRIHA Secretariat in ADaRSH is organizing

a series o Training Programmes on GRIHA and

integrated approach to designing green buildings.

ADaRSHs activities are supported by the Ministry o

New and Renewable Energy, Government o India. The

programmes, started in Delhi, were very popular with

participants and there was keen interest in taking them to

other cities and towns in the country.

Over the last one year, we have conducted ten programmes

o which our were in Delhi and one each in Pune,

Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, and Kolkata.

Five hundred building proessionals have been trained in

GRIHA. Our programmes also give an opportunity or

qualied proessionals with requisite experience to enrollwith GRIHA as a Trainer or an Evaluator ater taking the

relevant exams.

GRIHA is enabling committed and competent building

proessionals to take the message o green buildings

orward through the trainer and evaluator certications.

The Ministry o New and Renewable Energy gives nancial

support to conduct green building programmes. GRIHA

certied proessionals can seek support and organize

GRIHA programmes in their own right with the technical

support o the GRIHA Secretariat.

With nearly hundred qualied trainers and close to

eighty evaluators, we have ambassadors or GRIHA in many

towns and cities across India. Our growing pool o certied

proessionals are engaging with local communities and

governments in changing the way new constructions happen

in this country. Many city governments are considering

policy measures to promote green buildings within their

jurisdiction.

The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation

(PCMC) has come orward to promote green buildingswith tax incentives. GRIHA Rating is chosen as the basis

or disbursing the incentives. A stakeholder meeting

was held on 21 September 2010 at the Auto Cluster

Exhibition Auditorium in Pimpri with stakeholders seeking

eedback on the PCMCs proposed measures, which were

enthusiastically received by the participants.

Recent GRIHA-rated building

learnmore: www.grihaindia.rg

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EvENTS

Upcming GRIHA Evaluatr and Trainer Wrkhp

LoCATIoN TENTATIVE DATEs

Pune 10, 11, 12 November 2010

Bengaluru 24, 25, 26 November 2010

Chennai 8, 9, 10 December 2010

GRIHA Trainer and Evaluatr WrkhpGRIHA oers trainer and evaluator workshops to train

proessionals on the rating system as well as certiy them as

GRIHA trainers and evaluators. As o 12 August 2010, there

were a total o 80 GRIHA trainers and 99 GRIHA evaluators.The complete lists o GRIHA trainers, evaluators, and their

locations are available online at www.grihaindia.org

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OCTOBER 2010

2729: Delhi International Renewable Energy

Conerence, Up scaling and mainstreaming renewables

or energy, security, climate change, and economic

development, India Expo Centre and Mart, Greater

Noida.

1920: Building livable cities: the vision or uture Indian

cities, India International Centre, New Delhi.

NOVEMBER 20101: TERI and BMTPC Conclave, Preparing or an urban

uture: resilience, sustainability, and leadership, India

Habitat Centre, New Delhi. For inormation, email:

[email protected].

DECEMBER 2010

35: Urban Mobility India Conerence and Exhibition,

Sustainable urban transport: accessible and inclusive

cities, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.

Event


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GRIHA

MinistryofNew&RenewableEnergy

Government of India

NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GREEN BUILDINGS

78JANUARY 2011

sTEIN AUDIToRIUM, INDIA HABITAT CENTRENEW DELHI

The rst GRIHA conerence was held on 4 January 2010 at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. It was attended

by over 400 proessionals rom dierent disciplines like architecture, engineering, construction management,

and so on. The conerence ocused on the micro and macro aspects o developing green buildings and habitats.This years conerence builds upon previous years themes and includes a parallel two-day exhibition on green

building materials.

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The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) is an autonomous, not-or-prot research institute

committed to every aspect o sustainable development. Its work ranges rom providing

environment-riendly innovative solutions to rural energy problems to tackling global climate

change issues.

The Sustainable Habitats Division at TERI is comprised o the Center or Research on SustainableBuilding Science (CRSBS) and the Center or Research on Sustainable Urban Development and

Transport Systems (CRSUDTS).

CRSBS is dedicated to all aspects o energy and resource eciency in buildings and has been

oering environmental design solutions or habitat and buildings o various complexities and

unctions or nearly two decades. It consists o architects, planners, engineers, and environmental

specialists who specialize in urban and rural planning, low energy architecture and electro-

mechanical systems, water and waste management and renewable energy systems. A regional

center in Bangalore has been set up to acilitate development and mainstreaming o sustainable

buildings, improve perormance levels o existing buildings, and raise awareness on sustainable

buildings in Southern India. CRSBS supports GRIHA, a group o engineers and architects

dedicated to rating resource ecient buildings that meet specic requirements.

CRSUDTS works extensively on various urban issues with an aim to promote sustainable urban

development. It was established in 1999 in response to the growing urban demands, particularly

in the urban inrastructure sectors. CRSUDTS is involved in research related to urban transport

and sustainability issues. Its activities range rom carrying out energy-environment related

analysis, giving inputs to policy and planning, improving urban service provision and governance,

carrying out sustainability assessments, exploring climate change implications and carrying out

capacity building or various stakeholders, all in the context o the transport and urban

development sectors.

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TERI Sustainable Habitats Newsletter_ Oct2010

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