Over the past few decades, climate change has become a global issue. According to leaders of the world, the biggest challenge is pursuing countries to cut down on greenhouse gas…
GRIHA (Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment) is a certification for assessing the green buildings in India. Along with a sustainable environment, it also renders healthy quality of life, both…
Buildings are responsible organisms. A building has several systems that may not serve healthy relations to the environment, they are mass bodies of consumption, water, and energy. In production of…
BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method) is a well-known system of evaluation, Rating, and Certifying to know a building’s environmental performance. BREEAM authentication is proof of the sustainable approach…
About LEED Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is a third-party green building certification program used worldwide, developed by the non-profit U.S. Green Building Council(USGBC); it provides a rating…
What is GRIHA? GRIHA (Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment) is a system for evaluating green buildings. It facilitates the assessment of a building’s performance based on nationally accepted standards…
BEEAH Group is the region’s foremost sustainability innovator, with vertical spanning sectors and a reputation for ground-breaking environmental technologies and smart city solutions. It originated as a Sharjah-based general populace…
“Great public works are capable of changing cities and creating new spatial points of reference,” says Santiago Calatrava, a Spanish neo-futuristic architect, sculptor, and structural engineer. Calatrava received the prestigious…
Every act of design is an act of advocacy. It is an advocacy of the ideals, beliefs, frameworks of the social being that is the designer, and advocacy of what…
An internationally recognized leader on worldwide climate change, Christiana Figueres was the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) from 2010 to 2016. She is…
According to studies, buildings in India consume more than 40% of the total energy generated in the country. 19% of the energy-related greenhouse gas emissions are also emitted by the…
“Outstanding creative solutions….exquisite attention to every project detail.” These are the elusive virtues that the architects at the Felhandler/Steeneken believe transmutes a “house” into a “home”. They have understood, through…