Govardhan Eco Village

Vitals

    • Owner
    • ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness)
    • Occupied In
    • 2012
    • Location
    • Thane
    • Building Type
    • Institutional
    • Operating Hours
    • 16 hrs/day
    • Total Floor Area Unit
    • SQ. M.
    • Total Floor Area
    • 2400
    • EUI/EPI
    • 37.5 KWh/sqm/year
    • Building Name
    • Govardhan Eco Village

Project Team

    • Project Management
    • Biome Environmental Solutions Pvt Ltd, Bangalore
    • Architect
    • Biome Environmental Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Building Design

    • Wall
    • Stabilized soil cement blocks on walls are used and kept unplastered. The building blocks used in the construction are stabilized mud blocks, mixing ratio is 1:4:6 (Cement/lime, quarry dust, soil) and cement lime at 80%, 20% ratio Instead of fly ash, soil was used for the composite mortar of proportion 1:11 (1 of Cement and 11 is the site soil and stone dust/sand) is used. Entire construction is done with this mortar. Plastering is completely eliminated for the walls as the walls are exposed to stabilized mud block walls. Stone walls for foundation are built using composite mortar of cement, quarry dust and soil. Sills and lintels with U-blocks are used which reduces need of concrete.
    • Roof
    • Final roofs of all the buildings except yoga hall are made of double tiled sloping roof which eliminates need of concrete and steel used as members can easily be reused. Thatch roof for yoga hall is made of sugarcane thatch, grown on the site. These leaves are agricultural waste.

Building Performance

    • Renewables
      • Solar PV panels of 39 KW capacity
      • Solar water heaters of capacity to meet 100% hot water needs
      • Biogas plant processing the food wastes and animal waste and producing upto 30 cu.m gas

Finances

Lessons Learned

References

    • Ratings
      • UNWTO Award by United Nation’s World Tourism Organization
      • Water Digest Water Awards by Water Digest
      • Aqua Foundation’s Excellence Awards by IX World Aqua Congress
      • Spirit of Humanity Award by AmeriCares
      • Green Platinum Award by Indian Green Building Council (IGBC)
      • Green Apple Awards by The Green Organization, UK
    • Publications

    • http://www.grihaindia.org/images/casestudies/pdf/Govardhan.pdf

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