Training under SUNREF India Program on green housing for officials of Ghaziabad Development Authority
Ghaziabad, August 13, 2021: National
Housing Bank (NHB), India’s apex housing finance institution, is implementing
the SUNREF India program with the support of French Development Agency (AFD)
and the European Union (EU).
The programme, backed by a credit line of €100 million from AFD
and a grant of €12 million from EU, allows banks, housing finance companies and
home buyers to fund green and affordable housing projects and investments
therein.
Under the capacity building and awareness creation initiatives of
the programme, a training session was held for the officials of the Ghaziabad
Development Authority (GDA). Green-building experts and officials of NHB were
also present.
The training session underlined the many benefits – environmental,
economic and social – of green housing for promoters, users and other
stakeholders, such as reduced water consumption, less energy usage, less
emission of greenhouse gases.
The session covered technical concepts and know-how on green
affordable housing in order to enable the officials to include these in their
construction methodology. Various materials and techniques utilised in
construction of these buildings were explained in detail.
“GDA is very keen on organising such seminars and training
sessions so that awareness can be created at mass and grassroots level among
the technical people and developers. This will help them understand the
benefits of going green and increase adoption of the green techniques in the
general construction methodologies. GDA is developing this office complex and
we want to develop it as a green office complex,” said Mr. Asheesh Shivpuri,
Chief Town Planner, GDA.
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