The Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) has achieved a major milestone by crossing one-billion sq.ft. of registered building area comprising 1,505 projects.

Of these, 436 are green home projects (2,96,000 dwelling units) amounting to a built-up area of over 443 million sq.ft., Mr V. Suresh, former CMD, HUDCO & Principal Executive Officer, HIRCO, said.

He was speaking at the CII National Conference on Green Homes underway here. He added that the past 3-5 years had witnessed a major growth in Indian building sector and the constructed space demand was expected to rise from the current 20 billion sq.ft. to 100 billion sq.ft. in the next 20 years.

The conference also saw the launch of the advanced IGBC Green Homes Rating System (Version 2.0) of CII by Mr Naresh Zurmure, Additional Municipal Commissioner (Gen.) Pune Municipal Corporation. The new rating system comes into effect immediately.

In his key not address, Mr Lalit Kumar Jain, Chairman, IGBC Pune Chapter, and President, CREDAI, said that an MoU had been inked between CREDAI and IGBC which aims to strengthen the green building movement in India. “Within the last one week in Pune, over 10 CREDAI members have registered 21 projects over 15 million sq.ft. with IGBC,” he said.

The Conference on Green Homes 2012 is organised in partnership with the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India; Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Associations of India (CREDAI) and Indian Institute of Architects (IIA).

The two-day conference will have sessions on: towards green habitat, design aspects of eco-friendly homes, panel discussion (regulatory framework for green homes), optimisation of water in residential developments, landscape in green homes, enhancing quality of life in green homes, case studies, new and innovative approaches to green homes and energy efficiency & introduction to new technologies.

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