GRIHA norms

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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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