Assessing the sustainability of urban societies
Student name: Mr Anoop Raj Singh and Ms Harshita Kulshrestha
Guide: Dr Suresh Jain
Year of completion: 2017
Host Organisation: Earthood Services Private Limited
Supervisor (Host Organisation): Ms Anshika Gupta
Abstract: Due to increasing population, there is huge requirement of basic material such
as food, water, electricity, and housing. In our country, a large number of
population are either dyeing due to hunger or they are mal nutrients. So many
state in our country are not getting good quality of water for drinking, while
many of the villages are still waiting for electric to come to their villages. These
issue discussed above are not just national level issue but it is a global level issue
that need to be tackle together. Hence current study is a small effort to take upon
this global issues by making unban societies smarter through saving rain water,
exchanging common area electricity consumption with solar panel, providing
composting facility, growing tree in their vicinity etc. This is done by making
conceptual framework for measuring how much urban societies are
sustainable? Are they using resource of its full capacity? The developed concept
for urban sustainability contains five segment Energy, Environment, Health &
Safety, Social and Economic. This concept was used as pilot study on fifteen
societies of Gurgaon Haryana by collecting data, both as primary and secondary
form. Further data is normalized to make it unit less and weights were taken
from sustainability expert (both Indian and Across the Globe) through google
form, five point Likert scale method. Final sustainability score were calculated
by multiplying normalized score with weights from expert and according to score
all society were distributed in four class named Silver(least sustainable), Gold
(least moderate sustainable), Platinum (moderate sustainable), Diamond(most
sustainable). Result shows that Park View Apartment sector 56 is least
sustainable because they do not have composting, solar panel, RWH, Fire safety
measure while opposite of that Jalvayun Tower Sectro-56 is the most sustainable
with all the desired facility except a few like solar panel for common area etc.
Key words: Sustainability, Energy, Environment, Health & safety, Social and
Economic, Framework
