Is the green on?

Well Mr. Neetin,

I am not a LEED AP, but my colleague is.

We practice both LEED India & other IGBC Green Building Rating Systems as well as E.C.B.C., 2006 Compliance Audit & B.E.E. Star Lable Certification Assistance.

Sir I am Not leed engineer but i have gone through LEED-1 AND LEED -3 very throughly. But believe me I am more interested In ECBC -2007.AND IF you look mendatory requiremetnt of energy saving in Building ,it is going to be ECBC  only . Yes you are right these days  many more org are looking for LEED certification.

Dear Mr. Davison,

While making Green-Economics, we take into account the total embodied energy of all materials vis-a-vis the total energy consumed during the useful life of a green building.

With all that excersize, a green building proved to be an Energy Efficient one in all respects than one.

Further, a green building doesn’t addressed only energy but the indoor air quality, connection to the natural, out-door environs, ample daylighting, less exposure to the conditioned air that is fraught with fungi, bacteria, etc., lower water consumption, less disturbance to the biodiversity, for all purposes and what have you?

Sustainable Architecture through which we build green buildings is a wholistic concept and not viewed from one angle.

Yes, Mr. Jacob, What is most important is to go for Integrated Green Design, while certification, I leave to the fancy of the client.

Energy savings is a  must as its something we can gain without loosing much .From my point everyone should be aware and should take care when you go for building in this beautiful earth . Certification ?? Not that important

i think's that, good idea & can sve the world from destruction, ihope...

INSTITUTION OF ENGINEER'SSHOULD GO FOR BIG DISCUSSION COMBINDLY WITH IRC &HAVE A SEPERATE CODEFOR THIS AND COMING GENRATION AND FOR SAVING WORLD ENVIRONMENT AS WELL AS CLIMATE.

SHASHI BHUSHAN DIKSHIT

Speaking on an International scenario, even though 'building up' is the mantra, more and more the industry is leaning towards green measures and materials. 'Green' materials are defined in various methods unlike what is usually thought about i.e natural materials and so on. For eg. the VOC emissions, recycled or reused materials, the amount of energy used in the material production etc. And more over Sustainability is enforced through legislation as well in many countries. Also when we are speaking of large scale projects, the extra cost of implementing green building practices is offset by the financial saving thru the long term running of the systems+ the big environmental benefits!.

I certainly agree with you, that organisations are going for leed & it will definately help them, as the awareness for green buildings are increasing & the concept of Sustainable development has come up, organisation opr for Leed ratings as TERI (Tata Energy Research Institute) & Indian Green building (IRC) are working on modifying the USGBC LEED certification in Indian context.