New Delhi: AICTE intends to educate one lakh Architecture and Engineering students on green concepts in order to create a big pool of qualified experts in green building infrastructure. In collaboration with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the technical regulator has formed a partnership with the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC).
The AICTE will create the course curriculum in collaboration with the IGBC, which has specialization in this area. The project will encourage all Civil and Architectural Engineering students to acquire and build abilities.
Architectural and Civil Engineering students would help the preservation of the environment by developing their green skills throughout time. For instance, while developing smart cities, Civil and Architectural Engineering students will be required to work on all of the factors that contribute to the green culture in developing new cities, such as buildings with fewer concrete walls, the use of more glasses, and water harvesting, which helps them consume less water, become more energy-efficient, generate less waste, and provide healthier spaces.
These are the benefits of green buildings over conventional structures. As a result, students would need to be aware of these growing characteristics when developing the design plan for such buildings.
Speaking about the same, Buddha Chandrasekhar, COO, AICTE, Ministry of Education, says, “For instance, recently Delhi Airport has become the first airport in the country to entirely run on renewable energy. The same changes should also be implemented while developing hospitals as our existing hospitals are not environment friendly. We are working closely with IGBC to develop the course curricula that the students would be taught as part of this green skilling and we would also seek their expertise to create the content for the green building concepts”.
“India is lagging in technologies for Circular Economy (maximum utilisation of resources) and meeting Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) set by the UN. We have integrated the aspects of sustainability and circular economy in every relevant course to ensure that students learn how to design products that are in harmony with nature,” says Sanjay Chitnis, dean, School of Computer Science and Engineering, RV University, Bengaluru.
Amit Hajela, director, Amity School of Architecture & Planning, says, “It is essential that we address the issue of Sustainable Development comprehensively wherein education at the elementary and the higher level will be instrumental in achieving the targets of SDG. SDG 4 is directly linked to the education sector. Adopting green skills in higher education will help sensitise the communities regarding their responsibility towards their respective countries and the Earth as a whole. The prerequisite to achieving the SDGs is to create an enabling mechanism which is holistic in terms of teaching-learning processes, application and innovation. Similar initiatives of CII-IGBC have been adopted through collaborative efforts of Schools of Architecture wherein IGBC student chapters have been established."
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