About Us

The objective of Ansal API is to create energy efficient, water efficient, comfortable, healthy and environmentally friendly buildings and homes.

Born out of this strong desire for eco-friendly and environmentally sustainable living, the Esencia community offers you well designed homes with the very best of amenities. The Esencia township has been registered as the pilot project for rating under GRIHA* (Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment), in India.

Helping us in this endeavor is ADaRSH (Association for Development and Research of Sustainable Habitats), which is an independent, registered society constituted by the MNRE (Ministry of New and Renewable Energy) and TERI (The Energy & Resources Institute). It is responsible for the implementation of GRIHA across India as well related training and research and development activities to strengthen GRIHA technically as well as administratively.

ADaRSH has accepted Esencia as a pilot project for rating under the 'GRIHA for large developments' system. GRIHA, will measure how 'Eco-friendly' our township is. As the first pilot project for the evaluation of green townships in India, Esencia shall be a significant attempt to set a new standard for environmentally sensitive township developments'.

GRIHA attempts to minimize a building's resource consumption, waste generation, and overall ecological impact to within certain nationally acceptable limits / benchmarks. Going by the old adage 'what gets measured, gets managed', GRIHA attempts to quantify aspects such as energy consumption, waste generation, renewable energy adoption, etc. so as to manage, control and reduce the same to the best possible extent. It does so by following permutations and combinations of various existing national codes and standards, and other traditional practices to ensure the same (reduced environmental impact) in a cost effective manner. Unlike other systems that tend to rely on imported standards and technologies, and can cause the building's construction costs to increase significantly.

GRIHA is India's national rating system for Green Buildings as declared by the central government.