Need for Building Certification services
The building industry's impact on global warming can no longer be ignored. Buildings consume more than 55% of global energy, water and other resources used in their construction, operation and maintenance.
Of late, there is an increasing need to:
- reduce the consumption of energy and other resources
- improve indoor comfort (thermal, acoustic, lighting)
- increase safety (fire resistance)
- reduce wastage of building materials
- reduce environmental pollution
The first step of the journey towards making a building sustainable is energy efficiency. The Government of India's Ministry of Power introduced the Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) recently. This will be made mandatory by 2012 for all new buildings. (learn more)
Many buildings, such as hotels, hospital, office, IT parks, etc require facilities that go beyond just energy efficience. These kinds of buildings also require an improvement in comfort levels.
Many models like Leed (US) and Griha (India) have been developed all over the world and are steadily becoming a reference point for sustainable buildings.
ICMQ India offers a wide range of services to help developers and builders to satisfy different needs and to design and build sustainable buildings.
ICMQ Services
ICMQ India offers the following services:
- Energy Audits: to assess compliance with ECBC and to implement the creation of efficient buildings
- Comfort Audit: to measure and certify the comfort level of buildings' interior features (thermal, acoustic and lighting)
- Building QP+ (Voluntary Performances Certification): to issue an integrated building certification focused on resource consumption (energy and water), building comfort (lighting, thermal, acoustic) and safety (fire resistance).
- Green Buildings: an assessment during the design and construction phase to verify compliance with reference models (Leed, Griha)
