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 Global Green Building Council (GGBC) was formed by the Global Green Building Council (GGBC) in 2001. The council is based out of the GGBC 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.

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

GGBC certifies the green projects which are conceptualized, designed, constructed and operated as per GGBC Ratings. Till date, more than 1,250 projects (approx 400 million sq ft) have been rated by GGBC. These GGBC-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 GGBC 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 GGBC fall under one of the following levels (in ascending order): Certified, Silver, Gold and Platinum. For further details, please refer the GGBC