• ZISHAN RAZA KHAN
• Shafat Hussain Dar

Sustainable building is a multidimensional concept, but attention to the issue often goes solely to environmental criteria, ignoring the substantial importance of social, economic and technical criteria. Inadequate research has been carried out till now to support the development of sustainable performance for existing residential buildings of India taking into consideration the local conditions. The purpose of this research is to provide a better understanding the concept of green building assessment tool and its role for achieving sustainable development through developing a holistic green building rating tool for existing residential buildings in India in terms of the dimensions of the sustainable development and according to the local context. This research assessed international green building rating tools such as LEED, CASBEE, BREEAM, and others and then defined new assessment criteria considering the local conditions of India. A total of 8 main criteria and 37 sub-criteria were adopted for the research. The main assessment criteria were categorized, into the four dimensions of sustainable development viz., environmental, social, economic and technical. Weightages of main criteria and sub criteria were calculated and were multiplied with each other to obtain credit points to be allocated to each sub-criterion and the parameters. Thus the outcome of the research was a suggested green building assessment framework that suits the Indian context in terms of environmental, social, economical and technical perspectives. A user-friendly software interface of the tool was developed in Dev-C++ to make it more easy to use. Finally the tool was validated by performing a case study of a residential hostel in Bangluru and the results were compared with that of GRIHA as the building has already been rated by same.

Green building; sustainable development; main criteria; sub-criteria; credit points; dimensions of sustainable development

"Developing a Sustainability Rating Tool for Existing Residential Buildings of India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.713-726, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904J95.pdf

"Developing a Sustainability Rating Tool for Existing Residential Buildings of India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp713-726, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904J95.pdf