GERES finalist in the 2011 World Habitat Awards

Wednesday, 31 August 2011 11:58

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Passive solar housing in Indian Himalayas

250 projects from 82 countries around the world competed to the Award run by the Building and Social Housing Foundation (BSHF). The Foundation rewards projects from the global North as well as the South that provide practical and innovative solutions to current housing needs and problems.

The programme, carried out by GERES, involves the implementation, dissemination and scaling up of passive solar housing technologies in cold desert areas of the Western Himalayas.