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I have been attending the Green Building Congress (GBC) since 2006 (Bangalore). It wouldn't be wrong to say that GBC truly initiated me into the Green Building movement. Not that I wasn't aware of this movement prior to that. However, attending the GBC gave a better perspective about the concept as well as the industry's progress in this field.
The next two events - 2007 in Chennai & 2008 in Mumbai - were equally exciting. The key message that all these editions have brought out is that going green is not only our responsibility today but it also makes great business sense.
The event is getting bigger and better every year and the Hyderabad event was testimony to this. The Hyderabad event was particularly special for me since Construction Week India was an official media partner along with our sister publication (Architect & Interiors India).

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COMMENT   WoW! I had attended Mumbai GBC before, but this one was very special to me.   1 Comments Read more comments »

While I was there for just two days, our stall
received very heartening response from the visitors. The conference & presentation sessions that I attended were quite stimulating.
The overall visitor and exhibitor profile too was interesting. Persoanlly, it was a very enriching experience as I met a lot of industry professionals who are contributing immensely in making India's buildings green. Key amongst these were Dr Prem Jain - chairman of IGBC & CMD Spectral, Architects Karan Grover & James Law, AK Joshi - COO & Executive VP Voltas, Lindsey Parnell - CEO and President of InterfaceFlor (Europe, ME, Africa & India), Mike Leney - VP of InterfaceFlor's global services, Gurmit Singh - chairman IPA Mumbai & MD Rajco, Zafer Ansari - VP Dow Chemical, Varun Pahwa - Executive VP DRI and Louise McGrath - National Business Development Manager from the Australian Industry Group. Sorry if I missed out on somebody.

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