Green Idea Lab

The Green Idea Lab (GIL) is the Design, Consulting and Research wing of Bangalore based eco – construction major named Biodiversity Conservation India Ltd. (BCIL). In the year 2008, BCIL has launched the Green Idea Lab, its Research and Innovation wing for commercial purpose. GIL has an experience of 14 years as the research arm of BCIL and has even managed a few projects for BCIL in the role of a Project Management Company (PMC). Also, it has an experience of designing one million square feet area as green and sustainable architecture. In fact, GIL has mostly tested its new innovations on most of the building projects of BCIL.

The primary agenda of GIL is “Mainstreaming sustainability”. It promotes sustainable living on large scale. Its another aim is to bring cost efficiency, both, at the capital expenditure stage, as well as critically, in the running costs of the buildings after occupancy. GIL promises to develop buildings that are durable and user friendly on maintenance.

With the commercial launch of GIL, it will now spun into a ‘Green Business Enterprise’. GIL offers wide spectrum of services that includes - design and consulting services to individuals and organizations, so that they can adopt complete sustainability in their construction and allied projects. Advices which are offered to the home-owners includes choosing of the contractor, building materials, fittings and fixtures; cost estimates; ideas on aesthetics and interiors and on intelligent gadgets that could make a home more efficient.

GIL helps to achieve efficiencies in energy, water and waste. GIL's solutions in case of air and energy management includes HVAC systems that use non-ODS refrigerants and even has fresh air modes that offer air management without refrigerants. It has also developed A/C systems and designed noiseless ventilation units powered by renewable energy systems, indoor and outdoor lighting, choosing energy technology (solar, wind, bio-mass).

GIL also offers solutions in Water Management such as Water Harvesting, Storage and distribution, Treatment and re-use of waste water. In case of waste management, it offers advices like Segregation, Re-cycling, Re-use and Disposal, Biomass Planning: including Ground Level Landscaping, Upper Level Greens, Land and Microclimate Assessment, Intelligent and Automated Systems.

GIL services are also available to fellow builders and developers of BCIL. All builders and developers who want to include sustainable technology practices in their buildings can use GIL as a partner. These builders can outsourced their entire architectural design and drawing services to GIL. It can completely design the service cores of building and also build it. GIL can even add valuable inputs on issues like building materials, the building envelope and the aesthetics at the planning stage of the project.

It is believed that within 3 to 4 years, GIL will develop more innovative technologies such as automatic humidity control systems, data logger to continuously monitor humidity, automatic CO2 monitor logger and controller, respiratory suspended particle monitoring and alert system, temperature comfort zone, control monitoring logging system, technique for continuous monitoring and logging of water utilization at various flow points, technique for continuous water quality monitoring, energy utilization and pattern analysis at various utilization points, energy efficiency analysis and conservation recommendation system, technique to identify and examine renewable energy applications, technique to provide a visual comfort monitoring system and mapping of utilization with energy needs in the building.

And with the help of these new innovations, GIL will impact investments worth Two Billion Dollars on Green Buildings and Innovative Building Management Systems in India. GIL is likely to benefit sustainable buildings and envelopes of up to three million sq. ft, helping them excel beyond architecture into effective resource management.