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THEME PAPER

The climate issues and been established in India stakeholder engagements,
green building benefits are that ensures minimum data analytics tools and
unknown to a significant resource consumption stakeholder engagements
portion of our developer and maximum can be adopted to ensure
and buyer population, occupant comfort. A the same.
leading them to perceive it strong governance • Integrated Designing and
solely as an added cost. must ensure that any Assessment
new construction or
• Lack of local technical ¾ Cornerstone of
skillset and labour- In renovation adheres to green construction
these codes without fail.
many parts of the country, is integrated spatial
construction labourers are ¾ Institutional capacity planning. This involves
not skilled to work with the must be strengthened for conducting thorough
evolving market trends. sustainable planning, environmental impact
For example, the right way implementation, and assessments (EIAs) and
of laying AAC (Autoclaved monitoring. strategic environmental
Aerated Concrete) blocks ¾ Transparency must be assessments (SEAs)
is still unknown to them maintained through to identify potential
which leads to issues of open data initiatives risks and mitigation
crack development in along with public measures, and planning
AAC walls. This is often reporting. accordingly.
considered as a material
specific challenge which • Incentive Mechanism: ¾ Life-cycle assessments
discourages the use of Several Indian state (LCAs) should be
AAC materials. governments offer implemented to assess
incentives of varying the environmental
Roadmap for Sustainable nature for the promotion of footprint of projects
Construction green buildings, however, from construction to
a few states still lag. decommissioning,
The vision to construct
all new buildings as Incentive models such as enabling informed
green, necessitates an tax benefits, subsidies, fast decision making
integrated and adaptable track approvals, interest at every stage of a
roadmap which draws free loan on green building building’s lifecycle.
wisdom from traditional purchase can encourage ¾ With erratic weather
architectural knowledge both developers and patterns witnessed
while incorporating the latest buyers to go for green globally as an
advanced technologies. For buildings. outcome of climate
the building and construction • Monitoring and change, climate
sector to embrace green Evaluation: It is vital change vulnerability
building revolution in to establish robust assessments become
earnest, several steps must be monitoring and evaluation important for
adopted: mechanisms that track embedding resilience
the sustainability in the built structure.
• Strong Governance and
Regulatory Frameworks performance of projects Climate resilient
over years and identify buildings are designed
¾ Green building codes the areas of improvement. to withstand and
and standards have Performance dashboards, minimise damage

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