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ZED Homes

Go Green-Its not expensive!

Green homes have become the latest fad in real estate sector. These days, every project come decked with a label of green building. Ever wondered what a green building is? Well, it is what the well-meaning professional calls greenwash! Yes, there are many who are putting these labels, but are not actually willing to work […]

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Bangalore city development

RMP 2035 Bangalore: Surbana signs in stealth a contract

Bangalore has begun another war of words, with the Bangalore Development Authority and a host of urban development bodies paying for producing more documents that will conspire to work on Master Plan of Bangalore 2031 and Bangalore 2035. Quietly, without fanfare and without the media reporting it, the Singapore Urban Development Authority, Surbana, has been […]

Can we afford to ignore the Eco Challenge? Part 2

In the first part of this article we spoke about challenges in front of the ‘builder community’ today and why how we have built so far is certainly not the way to continue building. There are many other different ways of building. At BCIL and ZED Homes, for example, we have stopped completely the use […]

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Measures to make cities sustainable in the long term

Beyond the rating systems for green buildings, city administrators and urban planners have to look at very simple set of measures that they can implement by legislation. They should try securing voluntary compliance from end/users, as India has attempted, with public awareness campaigns that exhort the practice of energy-efficient management. Our experience in India has […]

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How to convert a regular home into a green, energy-efficient building?

Let’s first make the distinction, for the sake of convenience and clarity, between an ‘ecologically sustainable home’ and a ‘green home’. The former is something that you build with materials that make for the least use of exhaustible natural resources—a typical farmer’s house is the best example, with a combination of clay walls, cow dung […]

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