‘TATA Housing Development’ is committed to provide safe and sustainable living spaces that contribute to sustainability throughout their entire life cycle viz:-construction, operation and end-of-life phases.This is achieved by‘engineering’ value to the products so that quality of life is enhanced without impacting ecology.Tata Housing’s ‘Aquila Heights’, Bengaluru is an IGBC GOLD rated residential project. It comprises of 3 residential apartment buildings with 2 & 3 BHK apartments and amenities such as swimming pool, banquet and open play areas.

Transven carried out a one-of-its-kind post-development assessment to help, identify and justify perusal of IGBC certification program as a tool to achieve sustainable development.

The intent was to evaluate the benchmarks established during design stage, and to verify actual performance of the project from sustainability perspective, post 2-3 years of occupancy. Key findings of the report are as follows:-

• Potential energy saved by the project is estimated to 11 lakh kW which has resulted in savings of approximately Rs. 80 lakh for all units.
• Savings measured by reduced freshwater revealed savings of approximately 1.8 lakh litres
• Organic waste management generates revenue of Rs. 2.10 lakhs per annum.