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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
C l m c griha wkp l Mm nw dl.
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:
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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Theme: Vol. 1 (2), January 2011 Climate Change
and Sustainable Habitats.
Content: Case studies (300 words), op-eds (500
words), events (100 words) relating to sustainable
urban development and green building sciences. TERI
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The Energy and Reurce Intitute (TERI)
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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