Mr Toine van Megen | Co-founder, Auroville Consulting | The Energy Pyramid:
The road map towards net-zero energy buildings or urban settlements includes the steps as shown in the energy pyramid below.

Ms Mili Majumdar | Managing Director, GBCI India | The Bayer eco-commercial building located in the clean and green Bayer Campus, Greater Noida, India and the ZEB building in bustling campus of Building Construction Authority, Singapore are thousands of miles apart, yet have a common connecting thread. Both are shining examples of buildings that produce equal or more energy on site than they consume, namely net zero energy building or net positive building.