Chandigarh is a beautiful metropolis located at the foothills of Himalayas in northern India. Millions of domestic and foreign tourers visit northern India every twelvemonth and as a consequence, one million millions of dollars are generated from the touristry industry. Therefore, to advance touristry and to pull off this immense inflow of tourers, the bing Domestic Airport of Chandigarh will be upgraded and a new International Terminal will be constructed.
Sustainable Airport
Airports play a really of import function in advancing travel and touristry. Even though the chief motivation of this undertaking is to advance touristry, committedness to sustainable development will be the first precedence. Our company GMR Ltd, the Mayor of Chandigarh and the Airports Authority of India portion the same vision of sustainable development. Therefore, the purpose of this undertaking is non merely to understate its impact on the environment during building, but to integrate legion sustainable elements into the design and building of this airdrome which will guarantee that the airdrome meets sustainability criterions over the life-time of the concept.
Increasing development has resulted in environmental impairment. Natural resources have been exploited smartly over the old ages and its inauspicious affects can be seen in today ‘s universe in the signifier clime alteration, pollution, lifting sea degrees and extinction of several species of workss and animate beings. These natural resources need to be used expeditiously so that the quality of the environment is maintained.
Our hereafter lies in sustainable planning and development, so constructing a sustainable airdrome is one such attack which will put a seeable illustration of sustainable development for communities. So this undertaking will non merely hike the economic and societal prosperity of the part, but it will besides assist in conveying a strong message to those 1000000s of tourers that bettering energy efficiency and environmental quality is the manner frontward.
This sustainable airdrome will be one of the largest of its sort in the northern India. It is a multi-million dollar building undertaking and the airdrome will be spread over an country of 2.5 square kilometers. Since Chandigarh holds a repute of being the greenest and the most environmental friendly metropolis of India, the local disposal ‘s environmental ordinances and the significance of sustainable development will mostly impact the design standards and building methodological analysis of this undertaking. Therefore, all facets of this undertaking, viz. design and building, operation and care will integrate sustainable elements.
Sustainable elements which will be considered during the design and building stage of the undertaking include: sustainable site direction, H2O efficiency, energy and atmosphere, stuffs and resources, indoor environmental quality, building patterns and invention in design and building procedures. It is really of import that this airdrome meets the sustainability criterions over the life-time of the concept. Therefore, operational and care schemes will be devised and presented to the Airports Authority of India ( AAI ) . Once completed, these schemes will help the AAI in pull offing the airdrome efficaciously every bit good as in understating airdrome ‘s impact on the environment as it grows.
Design and Construction
This subdivision demonstrates how sustainability will be considered throughout the design and building stage of the airdrome.
Use of Checklists, Meetings and Review procedure
Checklists will be provided to the interior decorators and the contractors so as to guarantee that sustainable elements are incorporated efficaciously during the design and building stage. A design checklist will be used during the design stage to bespeak the proposed sustainable design elements. The intent of this checklist is to enable interior decorators to run into the sustainability ends of the undertaking. Similarly in the building stage, a building checklist will be used by the contractors as a confirmation tool for guaranting the incorporation of those sustainable design elements.
Furthermore, meetings will happen throughout the undertaking where contractors and interior decorators will show how good they have achieved the demands of their checklists and how farther betterments can be made. Another focal point of these meetings will be to distribute consciousness of sustainable development amongst the staff. Contractors and interior decorators are by and large really advanced and their advanced thoughts can assist us do important build-cost nest eggs. Therefore in these meetings, contractors and interior decorators will be asked to give feedback on each other ‘s attack so that more sustainable elements can be included.
A panel will be formed which will reexamine the public presentation of interior decorators and contractors throughout the undertaking. Panel will non merely measure the sustainable design and building criterions, but will besides hold the authorization to administrate interior decorators and contractors if their work is non up to the needed criterions.
Sustainable Site Management during Construction
Pollution bar programs will be devised so as to understate the impact of the building activities on the environment ( nagreen ) . A batch of flora screen will be lost during ground-works and digging, hence dirt eroding, H2O pollution ensuing from deposit and dust will be some of the chief beginnings of pollution during building.
Mulching, deposit traps and basins, usage of geotextiles, silt fence and protection of stormwater recesss are some of the chief schemes that will be used to forestall pollution. Apart from that sustainable direction of the building site will be done by re-using excavated dirt, composting flora and by supervising H2O quality of the nearby watercourse at regular intervals.
Figure 1: Stormwater recess protection ( left ) and silt fence ( right )
Stormwater Management
A stormwater direction program will be implemented to understate stormwater overflow because overflow consequences in eroding and pollution. Green roofs will be installed which will non merely cut down the overflow, but will better the quality of H2O traveling into watercourses. These green roofs will besides supply insularity to the edifice which will in bend addition the energy efficiency of the airdrome. All pavings, auto Parkss and pathwaies will be constructed with permeable stuff so as to understate overflow and pollution.
Extensive usage of groundwater for farming in northern India has resulted in important depletion of groundwater. Therefore, these permeable pavings will besides ease H2O ooze which will ensue in groundwater refilling.
Figure 2: Green roof ( left ) and permeable auto park ( right )
Sustainable Transportation Planning
To understate pollution from vehicles during the building stage of the undertaking, staff will be encouraged to utilize public conveyance and birds will run within the airdrome boundaries to transport them from one topographic point to another. To promote the usage of bikes for employees, unafraid storage countries for motorcycles, altering suites and showers will be constructed. Furthermore, to understate the congestion of roads during the twenty-four hours, trucks providing building stuff will merely present the stuff at dark.
Capacity of the public auto park of the airdrome will be limited to merely 1000 autos and high-velocity rail service between the airdrome and Chandigarh railroad station will be established to promote the usage of public conveyance. More fuel efficient vehicles will have price reduction on parking rates and will be allowed to park closer to the airdrome whereas heavy-duty and less fuel efficient vehicles will be charged higher parking rates. Furthermore, to promote the usage of intercrossed cars, battery bear downing installation will be provided for intercrossed auto users.
Water Efficiency
Water efficiency of the edifice will be improved so as to understate the load on local authorization ‘s H2O reticulation web. High efficiency fixtures such as detector lights-outs will be installed in the lavatories to understate H2O use and a rainwater aggregation system will be constructed as an alternate beginning of H2O for lavatories and other non-drinking intents such as vehicle lavation, irrigation etc.
Landscapes of the airdrome will be planted with draught tolerant workss to understate H2O demand and an efficient irrigation system will be used to cut down wastage of H2O. Onsite effluent intervention system and composting lavatories are some other schemes that will be employed to better H2O efficiency.
