Chiri Babu Maharjan, Mayor of Lalitpur Metropolitan City and Usha Manandhar Maskey, Advisor - Policy, Governance and GESI of BUILDING Energy Efficiency in Nepal (BEEN), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).

The MoU is for the possibility and design of making the building energy friendly. The main work to be done as per the MoU is to prepare energy friendly design, create awareness to make the buildings constructed in the city energy friendly and increase internal capacity.

"The MoU is very important for LMC as it will help reduce the impact of carbon emissions after the construction of energy friendly buildings starts," said Mayor Maharjan.

Babita Shrestha, Architect, LMC, delivered the welcome address. Suyesh Prajapati, Team Leader BEEN, delivered the statement on project introduction.

Dibya Acharya, Senior Architect BEEN, highlighted technical approach. Om D Rajopadhaya, Consultant, Policy Advisor, BEEN, presented views on EE and bylaws provisions.

Santosh Khadka, Urban Planning Management Committee, thanked BEEN for supporting LMC in building technical capacity to implement the Energy Efficient Building Code.