A half-day stakeholders’ discussion on Enforcement of Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) for commercial buildings was organised by the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) with support of the European Union (EU) here Friday.
Project Team leader, Exergia SA Costas Theofylaktos inaugurating the programme briefed about the project approach to implement the ECBC in Odisha. BDA Planning Member Sudhiranjan Mohanty explained about ECBC developmental aspects. Project local Coordinator, PwC India, Rajeev Ralhan highlighted about the objectives of ECBC enforcement in Odisha and BDA Vice-Chairman Dr Krishan Kumar 0stated about expectations from the project.
Notably, the State Government had mandated ECBC in 2011 and then BDA incorporated its norms in the Planning and Building Standards Regulations 2008 (amended 2013) to ensure energy efficiency in the buildings within BDA area.
For this purpose, the EU has engaged Exergia (Energy and Environment S.A, Greece) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Private limited, India and an ECBC-Cell is functioning in the BDA since Decemeber 2016.
Stakeholders discussed on the project and gave feedback in order to finalize the draft action plan prepared by the ECBC-Cell of BDA.