Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment Newsletter | April 2017 Sanjay Seth, CEO, GRIHA​  Council speaks on Green housing Mr. Sanjay Seth, CEO, GRIHA Council talked about the benefits of green buildings and challenges in large scale implementation. He also discussed incentives and schemes for promoting construction of green buildings.  Read more More than 4 walls and a roof: Housing as an anchor in times of turbulence On every continent, there are pockets of political turmoil, driven in part by economic resentment. At the same time, the world is inexorably urbanising. More than half the global population already lives in cities, and the figure will be two-thirds by 2050. To cope, and also to strengthen their own legitimacy, governments need to address their citizens' concerns. Read more LEARNING THE ART OF ARCHITECTURE Architects play a key role in determining the sustainability of a project. They must, therefore, utilise technology to enhance their designs instead of letting technologies govern their designs. A right combination of passive and active design strategies will minimise resource use. Read more How new technologies are shrinking waste water's hefty carbon footprint Wastewater treatment plants are energy hogs. A 2013 study by the Electric Power Research Institute and Water Research Foundation reported that they consumed about 30 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year, or about 0.8 percent of the total electricity used in the United States. Read more 2017 Architizer Awards are "a stunning celebration of innovative architecture" Green Building is not a typology, given that everybody claims that they think about sustainability these days. But there is the Plus page that looks at concepts and included an "architecture + sustainability" category. I was not a judge in this category but love this brewery, the Kamikatz Public House, in Tokushima prefecture in Japan by Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP Read more Municipalika 2017 - 14th International Exhibition & Conference on Smart & Sustainable City Solutions Municipalika is India's leading exhibition and conference focused on showcasing smart solution for Indian cities, is being organized annually since 2003 with the support of Government of India - Ministries of Urban Development, Communications & Information Technology, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, New and Renewable Energy, UN Habitat, and other National and International Urban Stakeholder Institutions, is collocated with CAPEx, trade show focusing on Construction, Architecture, Planning and Engineering. Read more New Products registered in GRIHA Catalogue 6 new products from A.K. Panels have been added under the category of Internal partitions, Flooring, In-built furniture, False ceiling and Door/Window frames. Read more GRIHA 3 Day training program organized in New Delhi from 6th to 8th March 2017 A three day intensive 'GRIHA (Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment)' training program for evaluators and certified professionals was organized from March 06th to 08th , 2017 at New Delhi to give a detailed understanding of GRIHA and also to identify evaluators and certified professionals for facilitating and promoting the rating system pan India. Read more Upcoming 3 Day training Programs Venue                      Dates NOIDA 31 May – 2 June 2017 Visakhapatnam                28-30 June 2017  Pune 26-28 July 2017 Ranchi 30 August – 1 September 2017 Read more GRIHA Training Programmes Register your interest for training on GRIHA Register your products and projects Copyright © 2016 GRIHA Council GRIHA Council, 1st Floor, A - 260, Defence colony, New Delhi, 110024 (Ph : 011 4644 4500) If you do not wish to receive this newsletter, click on the Unsubscribe link below