SVAGRIHA Rating:
The Inland Waterways Authority of India’s Intermodal Terminal (IMT) at Kalughat in Bihar has received five-star SVAGRIHA rating from GRIHA council.
- SVAGRIHA Rating that stands for Simple Versatile Affordable GRIHA – supports the concept of green buildings and sustainability under Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA).
- It is a guidance-cum-rating system being developed for small stand-alone buildings like residences, commercial offices, motels, dispensaries, schools etc.
- It has been developed in order to help reduce the environmental impact of these small developments.
- It will be applicable only for projects which are less than 2500 sq.m. built-up area.
- The rating system has 14 criteria.
- The criteria are divided into 5 broad sub-groups namely: architecture & energy, water & waste, materials, landscape and lifestyle.
- It will be mandatory to attempt certain points under each sub-group. The total points that a project can achieve are 50.
- The rating will be done on a 1–5-star scale.
- It has been designed as a simple online tool with guiding parameters which will evaluate the performance of the project with respect to SVAGRIHA in a simple, easy to understand manner.
