The Mahindra-TERI Centre of Excellence (CoE), a joint research project between Mahindra Lifespaces and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), released a technical report, guidebook, and online toolkit (sky type finder) defining sky luminance across various sky conditions for Delhi and NCR region. The work is formulated based on the established facility that collects sky luminance and solar radiation data using advanced instruments called the Sky Scanner and Solar Monitoring Unit at the MTCoE lab in Gurugram, India. This is the only facility in India with these instruments for collecting sky conditions data. The data collected will be used for daylight assessment, energy conservation, visual comfort assessment, and will also improve the accuracy of daylighting software, which will help architects and designers choose the right type of glass and determine the optimal window-wall ratio for their project.

Mr Sanjay Seth, Senior Director, Sustainable Habitat Division at TERI and Dr Kartik Kumar, Deputy Director, R&D at Saint-Gobain Research India sign an MoU to expand the Sky Modelling Research Study under Mahindra-TERI Centre of Excellence (CoE) project at SGRI’s Campus in Chennai where an additional sky scanner will be installed to analyze the trends in the southern part of the country.

GRIHA Council had organized one full day hands on training workshop on OneClickLCA tool in collaboration with OneClickLCA on 28^th Nov, 2022. Professionals from Sustainable Buildings division team, TERI participated in the training program along with various other professionals from domains such as architects, engineers and green building professionals.
The workshop was conducted by Ms. Natasha Das – Business Development Engineer from OneClickLCA, which included introduction, demo session and hands on exercise session on OneClickLCA tool along with certificate distribution. One Click LCA is Lifecycle Assessment software that helps to calculate and reduce the environmental impacts of buildings & infra projects, products and portfolio.

Professionals from Sustainable Buildings division team, TERI participated in the 2-day training workshop on Drywall Construction Techniques organized by GRIHA Council with USG Knauf as a prelude event to 14^th GRIHA Summit. The two day training session objectively focused on use and installation techniques of drywalls. First day was a technical session followed by practical session. Second day included visit to USG Knauf Khushkhera gypsum board manufacturing plant and a training session on installation of gypsum boards in buildings.

Professionals from Sustainable Buildings division team, TERI participated in a green building tour of Atal Akshay Urja Bhawan (Headquarters of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India)” organised by GRIHA Council on 14^th December 2022, Wednesday as a prelude event to 14^th GRIHA Summit.
The tour involved a presentation and a walk through the building by Architect Shaon Sengupta and MEP consultant Samdarsh Nayyar. Green measures such as energy conservation, renewable energy, water saving and other sustainable designs integrated in the building were showed and discussed.

The research team, Mr Ankit Bhalla, Ms Riya Malhotra and Mr Rohit Thakur from TERI virtually presented the outcomes of the Sky Modelling Research Study under the Mahindra-TERI Centre of Excellence (CoE) at the 36^th PLEA Conference for Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design (PLEA2022), IBPSA England: Building Simulation and Optimization in the Global South (BSO2022) and at The Fourteenth International Conference on Advances in System Simulation (SIMUL 2022). The publications provide peer-reviewed scientific findings authenticating the data capture methodology, CIE sky type defined from the data, and validation of the outcomes from the study.

The Fourteenth International Conference on Advances in System Simulation (SIMUL 2022)
IBPSA England: Building Simulation and Optimization in the Global South (BSO2022)

Ar Tarishi Kaushik, Associate Fellow and Ar. Riya Malhotra, Research Associate at the Sustainable Buildings Division at TERI published an article on Circular Economy and the Built Environment in India: Closed-loops as Leverages in the 9^th Volume of GRIHA’s annual magazine “Shashwat – Let Nature Be” launched during the 14^th GRIHA Summit at the Indian Habitat Centre New Delhi on 14^th December 2022. The article summarises the detailed report on good practice case studies, policies at different life cycle stages, and an analysis of UN2030 agenda indicators that were developed by the Sustainable Building Division at TERI as the Asia representative selected by the UN One Planet Network’s Sustainable Building Construction (SBC). The report was launched at the United Nations COP26 Climate change conference.

To deep dive into the circular built environment for India and other South Asian countries refer to the detailed report at https://bit.ly/3lDvLzr.

In collaboration with the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) and PDD-Ladakh, TERI and ECBC and ENS Cell Ladakh conducted four training programs, two each in Leh and Kargil on awareness of the Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) and the Eco-Niwas Samhita (ENS) for the concerned government officers of Ladakh and trained more than 120 officers.

On 19^th of October 2022 UT level committee for implementation/enforcement of ECBC & ENS in the Union Territory of Ladakh was held under the chairmanship of Advisor Shri Umang Narula, Ladakh at the civil secretariat, Leh. This meeting was attended by all the administrative secretaries of UT ladakh. Advisor Shri Umang Narula suggested finalising the draft ECBC code within 3 weeks’ time in consultation with the PWD, ULB, and RDD departments. He stated that it is imperative to have a robust ECBC code as per the vision of a carbon-neutral Ladakh. Further, he instructed carrying out energy audits for existing buildings and consulting the local stakeholders in the building sector about the technologies used by them for heating.
On 8th of November 2022 a meeting with Secretary PWD Shri AK Sahu, Chief engineers from PWD, CPWD, PDD, Mechanical Department and BRO was conducted in which consensus was made on drafting ECBC code on the standards of sustainability and also with energy efficiency.
Further five day intensive training oriented towards energy simulation in building sector was provided to officers of PWD deputed in Leh in the month of November 2022.

In collaboration with the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), TERI and ECBC Cell Orissa had conducted training programs in Koraput, Sonepur, Bhubaneswar and Sambalpur on 12^th October, 20^th October, 15^th November and 22^nd November respectively.
The awareness program on ECBC and ENS included around 400 building sector experts, such as administrators, government officials, architects, engineers, developers, builders, municipal officials, and others.

Various dignitaries along with their teams visited the MTCoE lab to understand the on-going testing of opaque and transparent construction materials utilising cutting-edge tools and technology. The TERI team provided a walk-through tour of the CoE along with a demonstration and got acquainted with the various sustainability principles and design strategies espoused by the CoE building.