What is Eco-friendly Infrastructure?
Due to increased pressure on land, water
and other resources, commitment towards
environmental protection should go hand in
hand along with economic efficiency especially
for housing projects where interaction with
environmental components like air, water,
waste, soil are a day to day issue. With clients
investing their hard earned money in buying
a dream house and with increased awareness
amongst them, clients are looking forward
towards projects which not only provides basic
emenities but also provide for better, greener
and cleaner environment!
Generally the various infra-structure
provided by the project developer for Housing
or Industrial complexes include good roads,
shopping complex, schools, hospitals, club
house / recreational facilities, swimming pools,
petrol pump, etc. The basic assumption made
by the developer as well as the buyer/client
while buying any property is that civic
administration bodies will provide the drinking
water through piped supply, provide sanitary
facilities like collection and disposal of sewage
and that electicity/energy will be provided
through pre-laid electrical lines along with
street lighting.
However, with increased population in the
cities, depleting resources and increased awareness it is dawning that using resources
sustainably is the only way towards
development. This is exactly where the
concept of Eco-Friendly Infrastructure has
arisen.
Environmental protection concerns all the
phases of housing projects be it planning,
execution or maintenance. Proper steps can
be taken in the planning stage itself to protect
all the natural resources on which we largely depend on. Eco-friendly infrastructure
provides pre-laid network of basic amenities
to ensure cleaner environment and a self
sustaining scheme. In Eco-friendly
infrastructure, the dependency on natural
resources including rainwater, surface water,
ground water, wastewater, solid waste, trees
is planned in such a way that environment is
not degraded in the execution or maintenance
phase or when the project is handed over to
the client.
Eco-friendly infrastructure understands
your need for a healthy environment along with the assurance of quality of the basic
ammenities. It also tries to close nature’s
cycle to help the residents a sustainable
development.
As you sow - So you reap!! is the age old proverb which we need to revisit
in today’s world also. We have been polluting
our environment by throwing waste
everwhere, by using large amounts of
pesticides on to our fields, by pumping excess
groundwater (borewell water), by bathing,
excreting and urinating near rivers and lakes
which give us drinking water, etc. We
however, do not realise that nature gives us
back these pollutants! We often do not realise
that it is our own action for which we are
paying.
Eco-Friendly Infrastructure realises and
shows a way that only with proper
conservation of resources and protection of
environment will the healthy growth of our
society take place. Conservation of natural
resources with which the residents interact
daily, namely, water, air, plant biodiversity,
waste through their use, protection, and
improvement in accordance to principles that
will ensure their highest economic or social
benefits is what Eco-Friendly Infrastructure
believes in.
This section provides information on
the various natural resources which we have
planned to conserve along with some do’s
and dont’s for the environmental aware
residents as we believe that we owe an
obligation to the next generation. |