Awards and Recognition

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Awards and Recognition

Awards don't change the challenge of another day. Being a leader is daunting, for you have no precedence to follow. You have to reinvent and experiment with design forms and plans but offer reliability and durability. Awards, however, do count – in that it endorses the collective effort, and nourishes the human spirit among our people. It gives us reason to work harder on the next task at hand.

flower_01.png  â€œBuilding Zero Energy Development Communities to Mainstream Sustainability · T-Zed Homes" has won the Incentive Prize in the Ryutaro Hashimoto APFED Awards.
flower_01.png  Today, BCIL is recognised to be the largest Sustainable Built Environment Enterprise in the country. BCIL was conferred the Spectrum Award for sustainable architecture twice in these three years — 2003-05.
flower_01.png  In February 2005, the second award was bagged for the work on TownsEnd, a residential enclave near Yelahanka, in Bangalore.
flower_01.png  The TERI award for Corporate Environment Initiatives was conferred on BCIL in 2003.
flower_01.png   In 2005, the All India Practising Architects Award for Sustainable Architecture was also conferred upon one of BCIL’s architectural creations.
flower_01.png   Chandrashekar Hariharan, the managing Director, is the only Indian among eight Asians in all chosen by the Manila-based ADB, in 2005 to be a Water Champion among 63 Asian nations.
flower_01.png   The first eco-tourism village in Nagaland, an Angami village called Khonoma, was designed and guided as technical consultants for the Govt of Nagaland, by BCIL during the financial year.
flower_01.png   BCIL is now short of a formal handshake toward becoming a member of the prestigious One Planet Living Network, London, which has recognised only three residential projects in the world so far since 2003 when the Network was begun. The OPL Network gives a boost in terms of technology exchanges for all zero energy development projects anywhere in the world.
flower_01.png  BCIL’s Coorg Rainforest Patch Protection Program has been recognized by the Canadian New Brunswick University in Fredericton as part of the Global Model Forest Project.
flower_01.png  Mr Hariharan has also served as Biodiesel Consultant for the Vizag-based Girijan Cooperative Corporation of the AP government.
 

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

— Henry David Thoreau, "Chesuncook," The Maine Woods, 1848