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Indian culture has a rich spiritual heritage and well-being has been an integral aspect of ancient traditions of India. Intellectual wellness is viewed as a positive attribute and emotional wellbeing as capacity to live a full & creative life. Ancient Indian thought has an endless array of techniques to raise human consciousness and is a storehouse of rich psychological insights and nuances of processes and constructs such as emotional & intellectual, physical and social well-being.

Although there are differences in certain details, there is a wide agreement that the health of an individual is not just the state of his physical body but an aggregate of the body, senses, mind and soul. An unhealthy state of mind is often the cause of illness and to remain disease-free it is important to have a healthy mind and body. The table below demonstrates how the five elements are connected with our body.

The Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) was formed by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in 2001. The council is based out of the CII Green Business Centre, Hyderabad which is India’s 1st Platinum rated green building. The vision of the council is to enable ‘Sustainable built environment for all.

IGBC is the country””s premier body for green building certification and allied services. Today, with strong support from various stakeholders, we have achieved the following significant milestones:

• 5,000+ projects registered with IGBC from various parts of India and abroad, amounting to a total footprint of 4.72 billion sq. ft.
• 25 IGBC green building ratings to cover all typologies of projects – residential, commercial, industrial, healthcare, etc
• 2,100+ IGBC Member Organizations comprising developers, corporates, architects, consultants, institutes, government, etc
• 3,400+ qualified IGBC Accredited Green Building Professionals ; more than 30,000 stakeholders have been trained by IGBC till date

Deming Health And Well-Being

IGBC certifies the green projects which are conceptualized, designed, constructed and operated as per IGBC Ratings. Till date, more than 1,250 projects (approx 400 million sq ft) have been rated by IGBC. These IGBC-rated projects, as compared to conventional structures, have demonstrated tremendous savings to the extent of up to:

• 15,000 MWh of Energy per million sq ft. per annum
• 45,000 KL of Water per million sq ft. per annum
• Installation of 100 MW of Renewable Energy in IGBC certified projects
• Reduced CO2 emissions by 12,000 tons per million sq ft. per annum
• Diverted 500 Tons of construction waste from landfill per million sq ft.

Green projects rated by IGBC fall under one of the following levels (in ascending order): Certified, Silver, Gold and Platinum. For further details, please refer the IGBC