The Haryana Government has issued directions for enforcement of the Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC), which would be applicable to all buildings of certain categories having connected load of 100 kilowatts (kW) or above or a contract demand of 120 kilovolt-amperes (kVA) or above.
State Principal Secretary, Renewable Energy, Ankur Gupta on Friday said that the provisions of the Code would be applicable to commercial complexes, shopping malls, trade buildings, hotels, motels, restaurants, transit-cum-boarding houses, banquet halls, janj ghars and resorts.
The other such buildings included cinema halls, auditoriums, clubs, convention centers, concert halls, office buildings, banks, public assistance institutions, hospitals, institutional care centers, institutional buildings, information and technology parks, cyber parks and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) buildings, having connected load of 100 KW or above or a contract demand of 120 KVA or above.
He said that these directions would be applicable on the buildings of which the building plans are submitted to the prescribed authority 120 days after the date of publication of these directions in the official gazette.
Gupta said that no building plan would be sanctioned by any prescribed authority after coming into force of these directions, unless those plans conform to the specifications provided in the ECBC.
He said that the completion certificate would be granted to all those buildings on which these directions are applicable only if they are constructed in accordance with the ECBC and the building plan sanctioned in accordance with these directions. Apart from this, the prescribed authority would maintain a register of the buildings to which these directions are applicable and send quarterly information to the Department of Renewable Energy containing a list of the buildings sanctioned or completion certificates awarded after coming into force of these directions.
Gupta said that in case a project developer or his agent violated the provisions of the ECBC or any provisions of these directions, appropriate action would be taken against such project developer by the prescribed authority which may include cancellation or denial of the completion or occupation certificate or such other penalty as may be prescribed.
The prescribed authority would amend its building bye-laws within a period of four months for strict enforcement of the ECBC and for prescribing penalties in case of its violation, he added.