<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Dear Building Energy Experts</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">
<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We
are conducting an online survey to evaluate the relative importance or
preference criteria of 18
<span style="">“easy-to-implement”
</span>
attributes to
<span style="">provide
a decision-making aid in the selection of the most appropriate building
materials and technologies for India’s social housing sector.</span> </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The survey is based on the
Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) which would help our project to establish
relative weightage of the identified 18 attributes</span> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">to
develop a <b>Sustainability Index (SI)</b> built on a multi-criteria
decision support system, to provide the targeted beneficiaries with evidence
based performance information that would aid decision making in their choice of
building materials and technologies</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black">We invite you to provide your
expert opinion using the survey link: <a href="http://surveys.teriin.org/survey/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">http://surveys.teriin.org/survey/</a><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black"><span> </span></span><b style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:13px"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The estimated time
for the survey is about 5-8 minutes</span></u></b><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:13px"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:13px"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:13px"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:13px"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:13px"><u style=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Brief about the project</span></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black">Mainstreaming Sustainable
Social Housing in India Project, MaS-SHIP</span></b><span style="color:black"> is a
research initiative by the <b>Low Carbon Building Group at Oxford Brookes
University (UK), The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), Development
Alternatives and UN-Habitat</b>, and is financially supported by the
Sustainable Buildings and Construction Programme of the <b>10-Year
Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production (10-YFP).</b> Visit
the <a href="http://www.oneplanetnetwork.org/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">SCP Clearinghouse</a> to
find out more.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="color:black">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:12pt"><span style="color:black">If
you have any questions about the research, or would like to find out more information about the project, please feel free to get in touch, and visit the <a href="http://lcbgroup.wixsite.com/mas-ship" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">MaS-SHIP</a>
website.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><span style="color:black">Thank you for your time and input.<span></span></span></p>
<p></p><p></p></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Regards</div></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/anant-joshi/19/a91/686" target="_blank">Anant Joshi</a> </b></font><a href="http://in.linkedin.com/in/inanant" target="_blank"><img src="http://s.c.lnkd.licdn.com/scds/common/u/img/webpromo/btn_in_20x15.png"></a></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><i style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span style="color:black">Associate Fellow</span></i><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="color:black">
Sustainable Buildings - Delhi<br>
Sustainable Habitat Program<span></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.teriin.org/">The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)</a></span></i><span style="color:black"> <span></span></span></p>
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