Environmental Engineering Services, Green Building Consultancy in Dubai, UAE

People often ask us on how can we become leed certified? Our response to them is as an individual you can never become leed certified, leed certification is for buildings and not for professionals. People always get confused between leed certification and a leed accreditation such as leed green associate. Buildings are leed certified and people are LEED accredited. Once this nomenclature is clear for professionals then we further explain them the steps involved to become a leed green associate. In order to become a leed green associate, one should make them aware of three organisations. The first one is USGBC which deals with outlining and establishing the leed standard as well as the LEED Green Associate Exam requirements. Second is GBCI, the gbci runs the leed accreditation programs for professionals such as leed green associate and also leed certification for buildings. The third is the prometric centre, the Prometric is a test centre that administers the leed green associate ...

As a segment of sustainable and green building design. Today we will be discussing about GRIHA. GRIHA means green rating for integrated habitat assessment. It is a similar rating like LEED, GE3S provides training on GRIHA guidelines as well as for LEED Green Associate Exam. Now there are various rating systems for rating building as green depending upon different criteria they choose. For eg:  UK follows BREEAM which is building research establishment in the environmental assessment method, Japan follows CASBEE, and Australia follows Green Star and Germany has a passive voice. Some of the European countries also follow passive voice. In this context, India also needs a rating system of its own and that is what GRIHA Council. GRIHA means green rating for integrated habitat assessment. There is also LEED INDIA which can be used as a Green building rating system in the Indian context. But today we will be looking at GRIHA and its silent features. GE3S is a leading LEED Green Associ...