BCIL is a company focused on sustainable building and management of water, energy, and waste needs in urban areas. They have won numerous national and international awards for their green building projects. BCIL aims to build luxury homes that reduce ecological footprints and energy costs for residents through innovative design and technology solutions. They have a team of over 200 professionals working on projects across India to advance sustainable building practices.

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3. Welcome to the World of ZED. If you
haven't heard of us, we are not
surprised.
You hadn't heard of Walter Hunt, the
inventor of the safety pin either. Or
of Ferdinand Carre, the Frenchman
who made the world's first
refrigerator.
Look at how these people changed
the way you live.
ZED and BCIL has done much the
same for many lives. We could do
that for you, too.
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4. Staying Way Ahead
We are world leaders in managing water,
energy and waste needs in urban pockets.
We bring a rare passion to our work. We
defy convention but respect traditional
knowledge. We are always thinking of what
we can bring to our customers, the people
who buy our values.
In just 3 years, 2008-10, BCIL ZED won 6
awards from 6 nations. That's powerful
testimony to our being front-runners in
green homes in the world.
We have the distinction of being the world's
first platinum rated apartment block. The
second such rating, too, was to our credit.
Both for apartment blocks in Bangalore. We
are on the way to receiving the highest
platinum rating in the world for an
apartment now in the making.
We have built over a million Sft in the past,
and are today building 700,000 Sft of some
of the finest homes you can imagine. We are
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5. on the threshold of launching another
million Sft of such Zed Homes that offer
much more for much less, and for more
people.
We build homes that offer luxury, comfort,
extravagance, and a rare ambience in the
Zed Homes that we craft with joy and
commitment.
We build exclusive communities, and strong
neighbourhood values—not for us the
faceless anonymity of every regular
apartment.
We deliver ecologically sustainable
solutions for living.
We believe you can buy comfort while you
promote conservation.
We are dreamers—but doers, too
We build a cause while building our
professional careers. BCIL is a cause. Profit
is part of the cause and reward is part of the
profit. Our Company's profits have so far
gone toward intensely building innovations
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6. that reduce your ecological footprint, offer
you the same comfort as any other regular
product. Our every effort is aimed at
hurting the planet less.
We exist as a company to create wealth for
every stakeholder. We have had happy
clients who have seen their wealth and
quality of life grow in rarely matched ways.
You will see in us a reflection of your
aspirations, your personal ambitions. You
will see we are no different from you. When
you meet us, talk to us you will find comfort
that you will not find in any regular
company.
We are not builders. We are agents of
change. We are technologists who offer
homes with a smart edge.
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7. You will find you share a lot in
common with the people at BCIL
We are sure there have been times when
you have been moved by some exciting
idea. May be you never did anything about
it. You probably didn't even share it with
your best friend.
But there's one place where ideas are
constantly happening. BCIL.
Here, you will find people like yourself.
People who are constantly thinking. And
working towards realizing theirthoughts.
When you meet them and talk to them you
will probably find in them a reflection of
your own aspirations.
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8. There is only one Boss at BCIL
The Folk at BCIL
So who are we?
Not Krish Murali [47]. An executive
trustee of the BCIL Zed foundation,
and Director and COO at BCIL Zed,
he architects sustainability
strategies and management at the
organisation. He is a mentor for all
of us on innovation and leadership
at BCIL. He brings poise and
direction to process maturity.
Not Radha Eswar [38]. Also a trustee of
the BCIL Zed Foundation and
Director at BCIL Zed. Mother of
three, co-author of 3 books on
urban sustainability, a friend and
mentor for colleagues, enabler and
facilitator for different leaders at
different tiers within BCIL. A
trained architect with a Masters in
Construction Management and
Building Sciences from IIT Delhi.
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9. Not G. T. Kannan. As VP – Finance, he
has an uncanny knack of value
engineering finances and keeping
commitments even in times when
revenues are hard to come by! He
did a 12-year stint at the IFB Group
and imbibed many leadership
traits working with the Swedes. His
ability to balance every work
demand inspires. He is tough as
nails, and his winning smile can
take the sting out of his sometimes
hard decisions.
Not Anil Kumar Nayak [48]. Client
relations is an awkward phrase for
the personal warmth and rapport
BCIL Zed builds with families who
move into Zed Homes we create.
Anil Kumar heads this enjoyable
challenge at BCIL
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10. He is an unusual candidate to be
presiding over the hard challenge
of persuading people to be our
'customers'. He has comfortably
settled into the role of making Zed
families part of our extended
members who want the best, but
as responsible home-buyers.
Under his cheerful exterior lies the
grit of a committed professional.
He lives on a Spartan diet of
millets for breakfast, and a fresh
salad for lunch! The only meal he
has is for dinner. His commitment
to work is extraordinary. He has a
pleasant way of bringing
discipline, while being creative. As
Vice-President, he brings rare
leadership to the Zed fold.
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11. Not Hiten Chavda [33]. Principal
architect leading all design
challenges at BCIL's promoted and
consulted projects. In him, we
have an amiable person with a
commitment to sustainability that
goes beyond career aspirations.
He's an architecture alumnus from
CEPT University, with a Masters in
Sustainable Technology from
Oxford Brook University. Early on,
he practised on his own in
Vadodara-Ahmedabad with awards
secured for distinguished work. He
has worked with Terry Farrell
Associates in London during his
stint in the UK. He created the first
biogas digester in his
grandfather's house in Dahod
district to the east of Gujarat. It is a
joy working with him for he brings
focus and delight in everything he
does.
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12. Not Chandrashekar Hariharan [52].
Serves as CEO of the company.
He is the founding-director and
Chairperson of the company today.
He has nurtured BCIL through the
difficult years from 1995 with his
unswerving devotion to urban
sustainability. He started work life
as a chartered accountant in 1980,
moved to become a journalist,
publisher, entrepreneur, before
evolving into a development
expert.
Worked on water and energy
systems in 14 districts across 5
states and 10 years. His work in the
deep recesses of Gujarat,
Uttarakhand, Maharashtra,
Rajasthan and Andhra helped him
understand the intricate patterns of
water and watersheds. He started
BCIL in 1995 with sustainable
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13. buildings being at the heart of
the company's business model.
Over the last decade, he has
written extensively on energy
efficiency and buildings. He is an
advisor for many policy-making
bodies of the government and of
industry. He has worked with
institutions in Manila, Bangkok,
Paris, and Hong Kong. His work
over 25 years in ecosystems
protection makes him a rare
resource-person in India today.
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14. Non executive members
of the board
Not Shankar Jaganathan [50]. He has
been an independent consultant.
He is author of an amazing book,
Corporate Disclosures 1553-2007,
that traces balance sheets and
financial statements presented by
companies over 500 years across
the world. He is working currently
on another book on the history of
economics of the world over
10,000 years! Also on the Board of
Oxfam India, Shankar manages to
find time to head Academics &
Pedagogy and Technology
Initiatives at the Azim Premji
Foundation in Bangalore. He was
associated with Wipro for twenty
years and served as Corporate
Treasurer both at Wipro Corporate
and at Wipro Ltd.
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15. These days he teaches and writes
on corporate finance, governance
and sustainable development. He
likes to research, write and teach in
the areas of finance. He has the
unusual habit of collecting
financial fiction. If you stumble
upon any such boo, you will do
well to share with him!
He is warm, amiable, analytical,
hungry to meet young minds, has
a zest for life that takes him on
long walks—up to 20 km!—every
week.
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16. Not Ashwin Mahesh. He is a
climatologist from the University
of Washington, faculty for public
policy at the IIM-Bangalore,
founding director of
Mapunity.com, founding editor of
India's 5th largest read English
publication, India Together, 2010
Ashoka Fellow for distinguished
social entrepreneurship, member
of ABIDe in Bangalore that has
pushed for innovative
infrastructure, former member of
an advisory group to CM in
Karnataka, mentor for a host of
officers in the state administration.
He's a member of the State Police
IT Steering Committee and a
Special Advisor to BMTC too.
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17. BCIL's depth of leadership
The first dozen of us at BCIL lead the next
200 colleagues at the group. Beyond these,
at the extended level, as virtual workers we
have about 1000 people driving our project
contract work, with constant focus on
greening the supply chain in multiple
aspects of project and construction
management.
We constantly build our depth of leadership.
The very soul of BCIL is its design and
technology approaches. We have over 50
such professionals from the best of
institutions in India and the world working
on these challenges.
So what do we do?
BCIL. This is the enterprise part of the group.
The main company has two subsidiaries
created more for better and more effective
management.
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18. We create homes. We offer our technology
knowhow to corporate majors keen on
gaining the green edge. We serve as a
research arm to some of the finest
institutions in the world on building
management systems.
We design and architect homes that need no
grid supply of water or energy, no external
sewerage connections, no bricks, no
concrete blocks, no pure cement, no clay
tiles, no ceramic or vitrified tiles for
bathrooms or for swimming pools.
We build with no forest timber, no
incandescent bulbs, no regular
fluorescent lamps, no halogen lamps.
In our residential campus creations, no
waste is exported, no municipal
water is imported. We have evolved our
technologies to a point where we now
build projects with no power imported from
the grid!
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19. We use no geysers for hot water in our
homes, and if we do, we use systems
that bring down energy use by 70% of the
normal geysers.
We use no synthetic fertilizers or pesticides.
At the campus level, there is no kitchen
waste exported.
There is no HCFC CFC or Ozone Depleting
Substances in the natural
air-conditioning we offer in each of our
homes.
We use no chemicals for treating water for
drinking, or for swimming pools,
or for water-proofing compounds at time of
construction.
We use no toxic paints for walls / metal /
wood surfaces.
We use nearly no plastering and paints for
external surfaces.
We use no diesel for gensets beyond up to
about 30% of the fuel need. The
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20. rest 70 % is renewable energy or bio-fuels.
We use only LEDs for external lights; not
even CFLs are used for such
external lighting for gardens, street-lights
and such.
We use only solar-based or other hybrids for
external lighting, with no
reliance on either grid power or gensets for
such campus lighting.
Use of concrete in construction is optimized
with intelligent structurals
that also look at the use of materials that
cool homes, and use less
transport energy.
... So how do we build? How do we offer you
comfort and convenience in these
luxury homes that BCIL creates for people
like you?
How do we help you save up to Rs 5 or 6
lacs in the first five years of
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21. living in such homes, that bring sharp cuts
in your energy bills, in your
campus maintenance bills, and enhance
water availability for you in the long
term?
Our design and technology approaches are
so distinguished that there is hardly any one
in India, indeed the world, who can do or
have done what we have in the past 20
years.
We are way ahead of builders and of our
times in many things that we offer our
customers.
BCIL ZedLabs. This is the consulting division of
BCIL. We offer our expertise in architecture
and design, with special focus on better
management of natural resources.
Total water cycle management. Solar power
and hot water, as well as lighting for
buildings. Biological waste management.
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22. Recycled building materials where
adaptable. Native plant regeneration.
The division is working on prestigious
projects of builder-majors in Mumbai,
Chennai, Mangalore and Aurangabad.
ZedLabs is also doing a resort in the western
ghats that will soon be a grid-free tourism
destination. A hospital in Bodh Gaya
founded by HH The Dalai Lama is part of the
distinguished portfolio.
With offices in Bangalore and Pune, ZedLabs
is pushing the envelope on building
technologies across these green buildings in
India.
BCIL Zed Foundation. We offer research and
documentation expertise to institutions
needing professional support in such
directions. We are associated with ADEME, a
Paris-based international institution, with
Architecture and Developpement, Paris, the
UN Habitat, the Biodiversity Support
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23. Programme, World Watch Institute, Asian
Development Bank and other such bodies.
Our work in the past has extended to urban
planning studies to green cities in Asia,
feasibility of energy information centres in
India, community-owned urban water
supply models. We are currently working
with the Punjab Renewable Energy
Development Authority and Haryana REDA
on energy models for their information
centres.
The Zed Foundation has served as
consultants for eco-conscious tourism
infrastructure for governments of Kerala,
Nagaland, Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh
over the last decade.
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24. BCIL ...
making a world of
DIFFERENCE
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25. Here's a snapshot
Ÿ 200-people company with professional
management.
Ÿ The Company has invested deeply in high-
end design and engineering skills with our
knowledge professionals alone numbering
100.
Ÿ Hariharan is an acclaimed global water and
energy expert who has won many
distinguished awards, including being the
only Indian water champion of the ADB,
Manila, in 2006.
Ÿ BCIL has won global awards from the US,
Japan, Thailand, and France for its pioneering
work in green buildings and technologies.
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26. Awards & laurels
1. Mr. Hariharan wins the Udyog Rattan
Award from Indian Economic Studies,
January 2010
2. Chandrashekar Hariharan, the CEO, is the
only Indian among eight Asians in all
chosen by the Manila-based ADB, in 2006
to be a Water Champion among 63 Asian
nations.
3. One of four Members of Core Committee
of Indian Green Business Council, India.
He is also co-author of the Residential
Green Guidelines 2008 of the IGBC, India.
4. BCIL wins an Excellence award for
contribution to the economic
development in India from Indian
Economic Studies, December 2009
5. BCIL T-Zed wins the first IGBC Platinum
rating in the construction apartment
category in the World
6. BCIL wins CM Special Jury Award for
Sustainable Development 2008
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27. 7. UNDP New York, has put BCIL among top
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7 companies for 'best practices' on the
future of construction in September 2009
after carrying out a case study on BCIL
TZed Homes.
8. UNEP Seoul, S Korea has done a case
,
study on BCIL TZed Homes.
9. Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh,
chose to study BCIL TZed Homes as Case
Study in their Masters Course for
Sustainable Architecture, March 2009
10. BCIL was conferred the Spectrum Award
for sustainable architecture twice in these
three years — 2003-05.
11. "Building Zero Energy Development
Communities to Mainstream
Sustainability -T-Zed Homes" has won the
Ryutaro Hashimoto Awards for 2008.
12. Earth Matters an international agency,
chooses BCIL's CEO Mr. Chandrashekar
Hariharan among World's 20 Icons of
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28. Sustainability. A film on him [and BCIL] is
translated into 8 languages and podcast
in several countries.
13. BBC under the UK Environment
Fellowship program makes a film on
BCIL's distinguished work on
sustainability, 2008.
14. In February 2005, the second award was
bagged for the work on BCIL TownsEnd, a
residential enclave near Yelahanka, in
Bangalore.
15. The TERI award for Corporate
Environment Initiatives was conferred on
BCIL in 2003.
16. In 2005, the All India Practising Architects
Award for Sustainable Architecture was
also conferred upon one of BCIL's
architectural creations.
17. Only among 3 Indian nominees for
prestigious RFJ Award, HongKong for
sustainable architect.
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29. 18. Member of National Advisory Panel of
CM Centre of Excellence for Sustainable
Development.
19. The CEO was Member of CM National
Committee for Eco-tourism, 2006-08.
20. The CEO is Member of National Advisory
Committee of Builders Association of
India, 2008-09.
21. The CEO was former Consultant for Eco-
tourism infrastructure for Governments
of Nagaland B Kerala, 2002-03.
22. The CEO was Urban Water and Sanitation
Development consultation for Asian
Development Bank, Manila , 2006-2007.
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