India adds 42 mn square feet of LEED-certified buildings in 2022: Report

Mumbai, Nov 25 (PTI) India has added 42.4 million square feet of LEED-certified buildings in the first 10 months of the year, led by southern cities Bengaluru and Chennai, both in area and number of buildings, according to an industry report.

Property consultancy Knight Frank India, in an ESG report, said that the country has added 4.24 million square feet of gross floor area between January and October 2022 across 148 new LEED-certified buildings. This took the total number of such buildings to 2,436 spread across an area of 701.6 million square feet, the report said.

Bengaluru outperformed all other cities with 0.9 million square feet of gross floor area during the period under review, followed by Chennai with 0.56 million square feet, Noida with 0.53 million square feet, Pune (0.51 million square feet) and Mumbai (0.49 million square feet).