A well-established factor across the globe about climate change and Green House Gas (GHG) emissions is a cause of worry. Construction industry contributes one third of energy used and associated emissions across the world. It is necessary to negate impact of major contributor for environment degradation. Efforts are initiated through green buildings, limited to a self-driven initiative of engineers, due to lack of awareness among people. Therefore, a pedagogical shift from existing normative approach to pro-active approach is necessary to understand, spread awareness and practicality of environment conservation. This paper emphasizes the past, present and the future green building pedagogical practices in India...
The design and engineering concepts for buildings in India for sustainability and greenness is driven by the market forces. Numerous materials combined with various commercial simulation tools for its applicability and monitoring or rating the same by professional bodies and documents such as IGBC’s-LEED and TERI’s-GRIHA. Amongst this are forgotten traditional civil construction methods of India, tested by time for its sustainability and durability in various standing settlements...
Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation, said that "India is in its villages". "If villages perish, India perishes". Gandhi ji had a vision of self-reliant villages; now we call it green villages. Green village is the village which practices sustainable development in terms of pleasant environment, effective and efficient planning, energy conservation, biodiversity, rain water harvesting, water management, animal husbandry, pesticide and fertilizer free cultivation techniques. Khonoma" is one such village of India, which has been declared as India's first green village by Government of Nagaland and Government of India..
Thermal condition of outdoor & indoor can be measure for the comfort level of human. A human can control the inside comfort level by thermal materials, but outdoor comfort level is not control by human, because man-made is things can only be controlled by the human. Indoor thermal conditions up to a certain extent can be improved by a judicious selection of building components, optimum orientation & proper selection of shading devices. Now-a-days such man-made materials are available which can control the climate. This paper contains the values of the different materials to control & perform better for the thermal performance in architecture & planning fields...
Urban transport is dominated by people making many short trips, multiple times per day; public transport is a sub set of it. Public transport is a network of passenger vehicles, for use by the public, running on set routes, usually at set times and charging set fares. At present these short trips made by different modes are inconvenient for commuter in terms of time and money. Passenger has to pay for each trip/mode for that they need to stand in a long queue, leads to wastage of time...
