SAGE Sustainability consulted with Living Farms, to develop the sustainability strategy and sustainability road map for the Green College being developed in Odisha. The institute has received funding from donor organizations aims to have a centre for training farmers in organic techniques and natural resource conservation.
Roy and Fournier are the architects for the project, who are firmly rooted in eco-friendly design and construction.
Sage Sustainability worked within the briefs given to us – cost efficiency, people friendliness and resource conservation. Resource conservation entails water, energy, landscape, biomass, and material conservation. Cost efficiency follows the model of low initial cost, cost recovery and low on-going cost. People friendliness comprises of health, comfort, safety, quality, protection from natural hazards, positive ambience and legal compliance.
As a result, the college aspires to be net water neutral, nearly net energy neutral – marching towards complete energy neutrality and completely waste neutral.
The building once ready would be one of the first such institutional set up in India.
– Team SAGE Sustainability