With a view to reduce carbon emissions, the government will soon rope in major real estate developers for voluntary adoption of a set of new guidelines on building low energy consuming green housing complexes. The move is part of the government’s national action plan on climate change. The ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) has asked an expert agency set up by it in partnership with The Energy & Resources Institute (Teri) to evolve a set of guidelines on how to build large housing complexes in the most environment friendly and energy efficient way. The new guidelines would include requirements such as meeting about 5% of the energy requirements through renewable sources.

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While development of townships is the mandate of the ministry of urban development and partly, the housing ministry and urban poverty alleviation, the proposed green rating for housing complexes is an initiative of MNRE because it is an extension of the projects it is already doing. Officials from other ministries are part of a technical panel of MNRE dealing with green infrastructure for large development.

Association for Development and Research of Sustainable Habitats or ADARSH—which now gives green ratings for individual buildings, will evolve the new norms for large residential complexes. ‘‘The rating called Griha would be voluntary for builders in the initial few years, after which it could be made compulsory,’’ the rating agency’s CEO Siva Kishan told FE.
The idea is to rope in top five real estate developers to voluntarily adopt the guidelines, which would then set the benchmark for others. The rating agency is now in talks with various developers and the first partnership with a real estate developer may be announced soon, he said. The rating agency is also talking to various state governments for giving incentives to developers to adopt the new norms that would reduce energy consumption and the impact of construction on ground water levels and the environment.

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