Green Building Certification in CBD Kharghar, Kharghar.

Offices and hotels in CBD Kharghar compete for tenants and guests who increasingly ask for a rating. In a new design, the points that count most here are a shaded, well-insulated façade against a hot, paved setting, efficient cooling, water reuse from the STP and the short walk to the station. For an existing one, it is metered performance over a year. A gap check comes first; then we prepare the IGBC or LEED submission through the design or the performance period.

CBD Kharghar is the node's commercial centre, centred on the railway station, with the road leading in off the Sion–Panvel highway as its spine. CIDCO planned it as the place where Kharghar would shop, work and meet, and it has filled with office blocks, malls, hotels, wedding halls, hospitals and commercial towers with flats above. Coaching classes and eateries line the streets near the station, and footfall runs from early morning commuters to late diners. Plots here were sold for dense use and built accordingly. The area keeps adding floor space as older commercial buildings are extended or replaced and new towers rise on the remaining plots.