Green Building Certification in Virar, Vasai-Virar.

For Virar's housing projects, a green rating is most useful when it lowers the costs residents will bear. Water-saving fixtures, efficient pumps and lighting, rainwater harvesting and solar for common areas all reduce the monthly maintenance charge that families pay while they live there. We look at what the design already includes, pick out the credits that save money year after year, price the rest honestly, and manage the documentation from the first drawings through construction to certification.

Virar lies near the far northern end of Mumbai's Western suburban railway, where many Mumbai commuters begin their journey each day. The town spreads on both sides of the tracks: Virar West reaches towards Bolinj and the coast at Arnala, while Virar East rises towards the hills, with the Jivdani temple on the ridge. Once a small station town among orchards and farms, it now holds mid-rise housing complexes, gated layouts and new commercial streets, and building continues on the fields and plantations at its edges. Some greenery survives in the older wadis and on the hill slopes.