Dear friends,
This is in continuation with my posts on climate change, sustainability and green energy. As some of you have rightly observed that focus on such an important issue has slowly got blurred. Though much work is happening but are we really on the right track?
In line with this, very recently there has been a spurt in activities towards 'green buildings'. This concept which as usual came from the west. Under the garb of creating sustainable and low carbon foot print buildings we have started creating green buildings.
I am not against this concept but do we really need to get Leeds Certification, Platinum Ratings and so on....
With a race to get them certified we are creating state of the art infrastructure with all the latest gadgets being imported. Beautiful glass facades, exotic designs but air-conditioning run and lights glow most of the time, even though the building is supposedly green !
Can we not imbibe our own 'desi' materials and designs in our country which have the likes of 'hawa mahal'....
This is in continuation with my posts on climate change, sustainability and green energy. As some of you have rightly observed that focus on such an important issue has slowly got blurred. Though much work is happening but are we really on the right track?
In line with this, very recently there has been a spurt in activities towards 'green buildings'. This concept which as usual came from the west. Under the garb of creating sustainable and low carbon foot print buildings we have started creating green buildings.
I am not against this concept but do we really need to get Leeds Certification, Platinum Ratings and so on....
With a race to get them certified we are creating state of the art infrastructure with all the latest gadgets being imported. Beautiful glass facades, exotic designs but air-conditioning run and lights glow most of the time, even though the building is supposedly green !
Can we not imbibe our own 'desi' materials and designs in our country which have the likes of 'hawa mahal'....
great start.... keep going..:)
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Its actually painful to see the enormous amount of money being drained under the name of green buildings. ACs dont stop running, lights dont stop, water usage doesnt decrease....where are we heading to?
ReplyDeleteI feel that rather than building green buildings left and right we must undertake energy audit of all the existing buildings. Wherever leakages are observed, urgent attention must be paid. If possible, small modifications may be carried out. At the same time, possibility to integrate them with aero-generators and solar panels must be worked out. This way the carbon foot print of buildings will come down. and we would avoid a culture of creating green buildings in the name of sustainable buildings.
ReplyDeleteToday only I was reading an article about the possibility of our mother earth being used as a heat sink as well as heat resource. This principle can easily be adopted for space cooling as well as space heating for our buildings thereby making them truly 'green buildings'. Such concepts ought to be promoted specially in countries like India where air-conditioning requirements are huge (as ambient temperatures are pretty high) and space heating requirements are also there owing to cold winters.
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