Overview of Green homes in Bangalore

As said in the earlier article that the concept of Green Building is fast catching and attracting home buyers in Bangalore.

Bangalore is the first city to have warmed up to sustainable, eco-friendly homes. These kinds of projects offers tropical landscape in the sky garden, service core as a buffer area, sky gardens, air space and wind scoops, natural ventilation, use of natural material, use of catity walls for insulation, use of natural material and reduce the use of power resources and water.

Green home consume less energy, not only during its construction, but also while it is occupied. The biggest advantage of a green building is that, it reduces the operational cost of the apartment in terms of consumption of energy, water and other resource. But staying in Green buildings are very costly. In Bangalore the number of green builder are very less but now as people in Bangalore is looking for a combination of healthy living with lower operational costs.

IGBC Green Homes is a system designed to rate new residential buildings like individual homes, gated communities, high-rise apartments, row houses and existing residential buildings as well.

The basic elements of green buildings are solar water heating systems, rainwater harvesting, environmentally friendly building materials and specifications, waste minimization, maximizing energy use in buildings, and use of water conservation and energy efficient equipment.

In India, there are two main systems in use: GRIHA (Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment) which has been conceived by TERI(The Energy and Resources Institute) and LEED-India.

TZed homes in Whitefield, Bangalore has been certified as the first residential apartment in the world to be rated Platinum under LEED. TZed means Towards Zero Energy Development is a 2,49,000 sq.ft. green project spread across 5.5 acres and is designed to reduce lighting and energy by nearly 70 per cent.

Residential projects in Bangalore:

Even the real estate developers in Bangalore are moving towards the construction of green building office spaces to preserve the natural resources and to reuse them.

Commercial Projects in Bangalore: