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How can Smart Builders Help Residents Minimize High Electricity Bills?

Leave a Comment / Energy / By Chandrashekhar B

How can Smart Builders Help Residents Minimize High Electricity Bills? High electricity bills are becoming a major pain point in resident’s everyday life. With the growing demands for electronic gadgets and increasing dependency on electrical equipment such as a fridge, ACs, water heaters, computers, laptops, mobile devices, speakers, washing machines, and much more the use …

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Is Your Top Floor Too Hot?

Leave a Comment / Energy / By Chandrashekhar B

Is Your Top Floor Too Hot? Residents living on the top floor of the building face a considerable heating problem, particularly during scorching summers. Roof temperatures can rise to an unbearable 50°-60° Celsius which can make life pretty hard. There are often no signs of relief even during the nighttime, as the heat absorbed during …

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How To Not Make Platinum-Rated Buildings

Leave a Comment / Energy / By Chandrashekhar B

How To Not Make Platinum-Rated Buildings Imagine you’re on the cusp of choosing your new office space, and there’s a pivotal question on the table: “Are you asking for glare-free daylight space or just a good-looking glass building?” This isn’t just a choice between four walls and a roof: it’s a question about your daily …

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ONE WATT Building Challenge

Leave a Comment / Energy / By Chandrashekhar B

ONE WATT Building Challenge World Green Building Week is going on and what better than to challenge the imaginations and limits of sustainable engineering? McD BERL proposes the aspirational challenge of the One-Watt Building. What is it? How to achieve it? Read on to figure it out. One-Watt Building: Think of a commercial office building …

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Building Mileage Kitna Deti Hai?

Leave a Comment / Commercial, Energy, Institutional / By Chandrashekhar B

Building Mileage Kitna Deti Hai? What’s Building Mileage? When buying a car or motorcycle, people always ask “What’s the mileage”? People want good performance and comfort along with high mileage. Similarly, with real estate, people are becoming aware of sustainable and efficient buildings. The time is not very far away when people will ask the …

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Ignorance Costs you Rs. 5.5 Crores!

Leave a Comment / Commercial, Energy, Industrial / By Chandrashekhar B

Ignorance Costs you Rs. 5.5 Crores! Most buildings in India are not upgraded since last couple of decades but the technology has evolved rapidly. If you own such a building, chances are that you paid few extra Crores for ignorance. Read it and save crores in Capex Most of the Consultants are still calculating the …

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