Green builder BCIL has won the ‘Realty Plus Excellence Award 2010′ for its premier project T-Zed Homes.BCIL T-Zed has won six awards from five countries in the last three years. Chandrashekar Hariharan, CEO, BCIL, received the award from Hooda, MP, at the Realty Plus Awards function held in New Delhi.
BCIL has won the ‘Realty Plus Excellence Award 2010′ for its premier project T-Zed Homes for demonstrating pioneering leadership values in the area of sustainable architecture and for marketing of green homes with high standards of luxury.The Realty Plus awards recognize individuals, organizations and projects that have created and delivered new benchmarks for excellence in the Indian real estate industry. The awards are given across various categories covering, residential, commercial and retail space. The “environment-friendly project of the year” title was conferred on BCIL for demonstrating excellence in developing holistically green property.
Mr. Chandrashekar Hariharan said, “It only reminds us all at BCIL that we have so many more new benchmarks to set and leadership initiatives to demonstrate for the building industry.” Last year, T-Zed became the first Completed Residential Apartment in the World to receive the LEED Platinum Rating, the highest rating for green buildings.The uniqueness of the property includes features like India’s first centrally air-conditioned (with no CFC and HCFC) residential campus and a campus which has no water supply connection from the outside.
Source: The Hindu
Tags: BCIL, Green Builder, LEED Platinum Rating, Realty Plus Award 2010, Residential Apartment, T-Zed Homes
Just came across this article. I live in one the BCIL campuses – T-ZED. The good part – water. It works. Most of the other things don’t. AC and Fridge don’t work. The solar water heaters do work in the day time, but most people end up using electricity to heat up water during the earlier part of the day due to the poor insulation of the solar tanks. The building quality and finish has been rather poor. Most windows look ancient with peeled off paint and warped wood. Lots of leakage and so on. The execution has been shoddy. Lots of churn in workers and management. Mr Hariharan is genuine in his intentions, but has failed to deliver on the promises except in parts.
Obviously the folks who give these awards haven’t verified the facts presented by BCIL or visited the project and talked to the residents.