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How Green is your Luxury Home?

Do you know that a Green Home consumes 25% less water and saves upto 40% less electricity?

It means that you will save atleast one fourth of water tankers standing in your villas or apartments and face less diesel crisis in case of longer power outages. Obviously, you also save lot of moolah in your maintenance cost.

Luxurious Green
India's super luxury homes are now defined by a life with no compromises.  Apart from an address that will make others turn green with envy, they also offer a Green lifestyle along with well equipped gymnasiums, swimming pools and gardens, complete home automation, and advanced home security systems. 

Today’s Indian luxury home buyers are willing and able to pay extra premium, for a desire to stand out and be ‘a cut above the rest’, for super-luxurious green homes wherein price is not a constraint.

How to Buy Green?

First and foremost, look for a builder that has a view point on resource management. A builder like CMRS Group, which is an IGBC member, is bound to do the due diligence while designing the green project.

Construction Materials
A green building should have a different quality of paints, sealants and adhesives used; you should read words like ‘non-toxic’ and ‘organic’ in the construction agreement.

Green Energy
You should check if your building rely on solar power for the lighting up of public spaces, it saves lot of diesel during power outage. CMRS Courtyard Villas provide solar powered street lights and also provide energy efficient LED lights installed in every home. These small things saves upto 60% of electricity generated from diesel and cuts your electricity and maintenance bill by upto 2k per month.

Architectural design
A green building will have proper natural ventilation provided for in the building plan. Natural ventilation ensures that the Air conditioning use inside your home is minimal. Additionally, natural ventilation also ensures that the utility spaces of your home are well-aired, giving you an odour free life, even when the dishes are not washed for few hours :) CMRS Courtyard, Row Villas, located near Columbia Asia, white field, Bangalore, are designed with an innovative central open area inside every Villa to give upto 75% natural ventilation and upto 65% natural light in your whole Villa.

Green Terrace, Landscaping and Water Management
Good landscaping, rainwater harvesting and water management inside your home, allows for maximum water saving and filling your recharge pits. A terrace garden solution like Dupont Terraces can also ensure that the rain water is used for growing vegetables and also run-off from terraces ends up in storage or recharge pits. CMRS Courtyard comes with upto 300 Sq. Ft of Dupont Terrace Garden to grow enough organic vegetables for a family of 8 for whole year!

For any property guidance, free legal advice and any other assistance while buying a property, feel free to call at  +91-7676-122-000 or send an email to info@cmrsproperties.com

Comments

Anonymous said…
The green beautiful filled with many hills and lakes, Bangalore is now a concrete jungle with many IT parks and sky high apartments. We can not make it as it was but certainly we can make our home green and eco friendly.

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