GRIHA norms

About GRIHA norms: 

• GRIHA is an acronym for Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment. GRIHA is a Sanskrit word meaning – ‘Abode’.
• It is a rating tool that helps people assesses the performance of their building against certain nationally acceptable benchmarks.
• It evaluates the environmental performance of a building holistically over its entire life cycle, thereby providing a definitive standard for what constitutes a ‘green building’.
• The rating system, based on accepted energy and environmental principles, will seek to strike a balance between the established practices and emerging concepts, both national and international.
• It is developed by TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute).
• This tool has been adopted by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. 
• Criteria:
  • It assesses a building out of 34 criteria and awards points on a scale of 100.
  • In order to qualify for GRIHA certification, a project must achieve at least 50 points.
  • Certain criteria / sub-criteria are mandatory and have to be complied for the project to be at all eligible for rating.
• Project scoring
  • 50-60 points is certified as a 1 star GRIHA rated building,
  • 61-70 is a 2 star GRIHA rated building,
  • 71-80 is a 3 star GRIHA rating building,
  • 81-90 is a 4 star GRIHA rated building
  • 91-100 is a 5 star GRIHA rated building

Q1) What is TERI?

The Energy and Resources Institute  is a research institute based in India that specializes in the fields of energy, environment, and sustainable development. TERI was founded in 1974 and has since become a prominent global think tank dedicated to researching and addressing various environmental and sustainable development challenges.

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