Abstract
Insignificant (25% of world average) carbon footprint of India has doubled in last 15 years, indicating an alarming future overburdened with the threat of climate change, over-population and intense urbanization. To find a greener and sustainable route for this inevitable trend, this paper scrutinizes the success factors and barriers for the acceptability of national green building grading tool GRIHA. It was analyzed to offer limited tangible benefits to commoners and hence unable to positively influence the actual unplanned development in peri-urban areas. A plausible solution was searched form 26 successful green initiatives of Singapore which have overcome the hurdles of over population and multi-ethnicity. And the beneficiaries are mainly individuals or private sectors initially attracted by tangible gains but later as the sustainability drive gained momentum, incentives was less decisive. It is recommended that in India incentive-based efforts should also overcome the human barrier of common myths about green buildings.
Keywords: building rating tool, GRIHA, singapore green movement, sustainable development, tangible incentives
Author Biography
Sutapa Das, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, School of Infrastructure Design and Management,
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
