Green Building Certification in Kasarvadavali, Thane.

At the park's edge, a green rating has credits that mean something locally: protecting or restoring habitat on the site, limiting light that spills towards the forest, and native landscaping that needs little irrigation once established. Elsewhere these are often treated as easy extras; in Kasarvadavali they are what makes a building fit its setting. We plan them from the site survey, carry them through construction, and make sure the finished building still does what the credits say.

Kasarvadavali lies towards the northern end of Thane's stretch of Ghodbunder Road, below the hills of Sanjay Gandhi National Park and short of the climb to Gaimukh. The village is still there, with its own lanes and houses, but most of the land around it has been built as townships in recent years, and some of the newest layouts reach right up to the foot of the hills. Metro Line 4 was planned with a station here, and the area is changing from the city's far edge into a connected neighbourhood. The forest is a constant presence: from windows, on walks, and sometimes on the roads at night.