IGBC Green New Building Rating System - Version 3.

(Abridged Reference Guide)

Fourth Addendum - August 2015

(Applicable to all the registered projects

under IGBC Green New Building Rating System - Version 3.0,
since the launch in July 2014)
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24 SA Cr 3 Passive The point given below is added in ‘Notes’ under Compliance Options for ‘Option 2 - Prescriptive
Architecture Approach – Skylights’:

Compliance options: • Skylights provided on the basement/ podium areas can also be considered for credit calculations.

Option 2 - Prescriptive
Approach :
Skylights
Notes

24 SA Cr 3 Passive Existing Text

Architecture
50 % of the regularly occupied spaces with daylight illuminance levels for a minimum of 110
Compliance options: Lux (and a maximum of 1,100 Lux) in a clear sky condition on 21st September at 12 noon,
at working plane (through simulation or measurement approach)
Option 2 -
Prescriptive New Text
Approach :
Daylighting 50 % of the regularly occupied spaces with daylight illuminance levels for a minimum of 110
Lux (and a maximum of 2,200 Lux) in a clear sky condition on 21st September at 12 noon,
at working plane (through simulation or measurement approach)

32 SSP Cr 3 Low-emitting The point given below is added in ‘Notes’ under Compliance Options:
Vehicles
• Low-emitting vehicles sourced on contract by the owner/ developer for building occupants can
Compliance options: also be considered to show credit compliance.

Option 1& Option 2 -

Electric Vehicles &
Compressed Natural
Gas (CNG) Powered
Vehicles - Notes

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33 SSP Cr 4 Natural The points given below are added in ‘Notes’ under Compliance Options for ‘ Option 1 - Natural
Topography or Topography and/or Vegetation & Option 2 – Vegetation over Built Structure’
Vegetation
• Vertical Landscaping to the external walls can also be considered for this credit calculation.
Compliance Options:
• Vegetation/ Soft landscape shall not be designed with monoculture plant species, since such
Option 1 & 2– species would not promote habitat and biodiversity.
Natural Topography
and/or Vegetation &
Vegetation over built
structures

Notes

36 SSP Cr 5 Preservation or The point given below is added in ‘Notes’ under Compliance Options for ‘ Case B: Plantation of Tree
Transplantation of Saplings’
Trees
• Vegetation/ Soft landscape shall not be designed with monoculture plant species, since such
Compliance Options: species would not promote habitat and biodiversity.

Case B: Plantation of
Tree Saplings

Notes

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56 WC Cr 1 Landscape Design The point given below is added in ‘Notes’ under Compliance Options for:

Compliance Option • Vertical Landscaping to the external walls can also be considered for this credit calculation.

Notes • Landscape shall not be designed with monoculture plant species, since such species would not
promote habitat and biodiversity.

88 EE Cr 5 Commissioning, The point given below is added in ‘Notes’ under Compliance Options for:
Post-installation of
Equipment & • In tenant-occupied buildings, if commissioning of building equipment & systems is not in the
Systems developer scope, then this credit cannot be attempted.

Compliance Option

Notes

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90 EE Cr 6 Energy Metering Case B: Building Management System:

and Management
Existing Text
Compliance Options
• Air-conditioning management system
Case B: Building • Lighting management system
Management • Renewable energy management system
System: • Elevator management system
• Fresh air monitoring system
• CO2 control and monitoring system
• Water management system

New Text

• Air-conditioning management system

• Lighting management system
• Renewable energy management system
• Elevator management system
• Fresh air monitoring system
• CO2 control and monitoring system

99 BMR Cr 2 Organic Waste The point given below is added in ‘Notes’ under Compliance Options for:
Management, Post-
occupancy • If the project is having an organic waste convertor in an enclosed room, then design such area with
exhaust system, self-closing door, deck-to-deck partition/ hard ceiling.
Compliance Options:

Notes

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105 IEQ MR 1 Minimum Fresh The point given below is added in ‘Notes’ under Compliance Options for ‘Case A: Mechanically
Air Ventilation Ventilated Spaces’:

Compliance Options: • In tenant-occupied buildings, if air-conditioning equipment are in tenant scope, then the developer
shall mandate provision of fresh air ventilation for tenant occupied spaces in tenant agreement,
specifying minimum fresh air ventilation requirements as per ASHRAE Standard
Notes 62.1 - 2010.

108 IEQ Cr 1 CO2 Monitoring The point given below is added in ‘Notes’ under Compliance Options :

• In tenant-occupied buildings, if installation of CO2 sensors is not in the developer scope, then this
Compliance Options: credit cannot be attempted.

Notes

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110 IEQ Cr 2 Daylighting Option 1: Simulation Approach and Option 2: Measurement Approach

Compliance Options: Existing Text

Demonstrate through computer simulation that 75% of the regularly occupied spaces in the
Notes building achieve daylight illuminance levels for a minimum of 110 Lux (and a maximum of 1,100
Lux) in a clear sky condition on 21st September at 12 noon, at working plane.

Areas with 1,100 Lux or more daylight illumination levels should not be considered.

New Text

Demonstrate through computer simulation that 75% of the regularly occupied spaces in the
building achieve daylight illuminance levels for a minimum of 110 Lux (and a maximum of 2,200
Lux) in a clear sky condition on 21st September at 12 noon, at working plane.

Areas with 2,200 Lux or more daylight illumination levels should not be considered.

106, IEQ MR 1, Minimum Fresh Existing Text:

108, IEQ Cr 1, Air Ventilation,
109, IEQ Cr 2 & CO2 Monitoring, Regularly occupied areas are those where people sit or stand as they work, irrespective of the number
111 IEQ Cr 3 Daylighting and of days occupied in a year.
Outdoor Views
New Text:
Compliance Options:
Regularly occupied areas are those where people sit or stand as they work, irrespective of the number
Notes of days occupied in a year. Regularly occupied areas shall include only enclosed spaces.

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118 IEQ Cr 7 Indoor Air Quality • For Tenant-occupied Buildings, here after, this credit would not be applicable.
Testing, After
Construction and
Before Occupancy

83,84 EE Cr 3 On-site Renewable Tenant Occupied-buildings:

Energy
Existing Thresholds:
Compliance Options:
Percentage of On-site Renewable Energy Points
Generated to the Total Annual Lighting Energy
127 ID Cr 1 Innovation in Consumption of the Building
Design Process > 2.5 % 2
> 3.75 % 3
Compliance Options: >5% 4
> 6.25 % 5
Option 2: Exemplary > 7.5 % 6
performance > 8.75 % Exemplary Performance

(Exhibit B - List of New Thresholds:

Base Credits eligible
Percentage of On-site Renewable Energy Points
for Exemplary
Generated to the Total Annual Lighting Energy
Performance)
Consumption of the Building
>2% 2
>3% 3
>4% 4
>5% 5
>6% 6
>7% 7
>8% 8
>9% Exemplary Performance