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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.

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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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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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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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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There is only one Boss 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.

The Folk at BCIL

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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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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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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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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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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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Non executive membersof 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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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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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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BCIL's depth of leadership

So what do we do?

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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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BCIL ...making a world of

DIFFERENCE

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Here's a snapshotŸ 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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Awards & laurels1. 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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7. UNDP, New York, has put BCIL among top

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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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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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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