Better Future Energy Saving Building Code Hyderabad
Better Future Energy Saving Building Code Hyderabad
Better Future Energy Saving Building Code Hyderabad
APRIL 2016
FACTSHEET
With skyrocketing energy demand, limited energy supply, rapid urbanization and increasing
pollution levels, India critically needs energy solutions. Energy efficiency is an immediate solution,
locking in energy savings in Indias growing cities. To reap energy savings, Hyderabad and Telangana
State are moving forward with Indias first online system to ensure energy savings in buildings.
Buildings account for more than 30% of Indias electricity consumption, and the total built space in the country
is growing at a tremendous rate. The Energy Conservation
Building Code (ECBC), launched by the Ministry of Powers
Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), has the potential to
transform the way buildings are constructed and to unleash
significant energy savings. Building more efficient buildings
is also a central strategy to achieve Indias climate target to reduce emissions intensity by 33 to 35 percent from 2005 levels
by the year 2030 as part of the Paris Agreement.
Bhaskar Deol
Bhaskar Deol
The city of Hyderabad is a hub for leading Indian and multinational hi-tech companies, including IT and IT-enabled services, software consulting, and business process outsourcing
firms. Currently, as the joint capital of Telangana and Andhra
Pradesh, Hyderabad also has many government office buildings and administrative services. New building construction
is expanding in Hyderabad and across the region. Commercial office space in Hyderabad, already at 64 million square
feet as of 2015, is projected to almost double by 2022. Additionally, about 5 million square feet of commercial mall space
is expected to be operational by 2022. Since this rapid growth
in buildings will exponentially increase energy demand, there
is a window of opportunity now to construct energy efficient
buildings that will lock in energy savings for years to come,
boost economic growth through greater energy access, and
reduce pollution.
The Government of Telangana has adopted a two-tiered approach to code compliance. Third-party assessors, trained
and empaneled by the government, inspect the building in
two stages to ensure effective compliance.
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Real Estate
Developer
Stage I Design Phase
1.
DISAPPROVAL
Prepares objections,
Meets Applicant to
Resolve Issues
Third Party
Assessor
Online Approval
System
2.
3.
Building Committee
Approval
4.
Municipal
Corporation may
Construction
conduct random
Phase
inspections during
Begins
construction
APPROVAL
Stage II - Post
Construction
Phase
Municipal
Corporation
5.
Municipal Corporation
Issues Building
Occupancy Certificate
Third Party
Assessor
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As Hyderabad and Telangana State lead the country in implementing the building energy code, ASCI and NRDC continue
to support their governments as knowledge partners to
make efficient buildings a reality. With the help of extensive
stakeholder consultations, Hyderabads implementation
framework has been designed specifically for the building
construction and approval processes in local, urban bodies
in India so that it can be replicated in other cities across the
country, thereby helping India to achieve its goals of clean
energy and economic prosperity.
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