About the Builder
Total Environment - The Developer
Total Environment Building Systems Private Limited is a Bengaluru architect-led developer incorporated on 10 July 1996 (CIN U45202KA1996PTC020790) and founded by Kamal Sagar and Shibanee Sagar. It operates from Whitefield, Bengaluru, with active development in Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Pune, and employs between 1,001 and 5,000 people.
1996
Incorporated
~64
Projects
5.5 msf
Delivered
3
Cities
Founders and Philosophy
A husband-and-wife architect founding
Total Environment was founded by Kamal Sagar and Shibanee Sagar, both architects - a detail worth stating because a good deal of published material names only Kamal Sagar, and a good deal more gives the founding year as 1997. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs record settles both: incorporation on 10 July 1996 under CIN U45202KA1996PTC020790.
The practice's argument is that a developer led by architects makes different trade-offs - that design intent survives into construction because the people defending it are the people who drew it. In built form that shows up as deep planted terraces carried on cantilevers, exposed brick and board-marked concrete, black painted steel rather than applied ornament, and landscape treated as structure rather than decoration.
Delivered Work
What they have actually built
The signature move is the cantilevered terrace garden, first built at Green is the Color in 1996, where the terraces alternate direction on consecutive floors to give the elevation a woven rather than stacked reading. That vocabulary has been imitated widely enough across Bengaluru to become a market convention.
Other delivered projects include After the Rain at Yelahanka, The Magic Faraway Tree on Kanakapura Road, and Pursuit of a Radical Rhapsody at Whitefield. All are occupied and can be visited, which is the honest test of the approach - planted terraces are easy to render and harder to maintain, and a decade-old building shows which one you are being sold.
On plotted product the record is narrow and worth stating precisely: Total Environment has exactly two plotted schemes, at Devanahalli and Alibaug. Tangled Up in Green at Devanahalli - 968 villa plots across 115 acres, with a published band of 1,800 to 5,000 sqft - is the real plotted product. There is no Total Environment plotted project in East Bengaluru, and material describing one at this address is describing Devanahalli.
Scale and Structure
Group companies and capacity
| Attribute | Detail |
|---|---|
| Legal name | Total Environment Building Systems Private Limited |
| CIN | U45202KA1996PTC020790 |
| Incorporated | 10 July 1996 |
| Founders | Kamal Sagar and Shibanee Sagar |
| Headquarters | IMAGINE, No. 78, ITPL Main Road, EPIP Zone, Whitefield, Bengaluru 560066 |
| Employees | 1,001 - 5,000 |
| Cities | Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune |
| Portfolio (CRISIL, Mar 2025) | About 64 projects; 5.5 msf delivered; 12.69 msf under development; 79 percent booking rate |
| Machine-Craft | CIN U36101KA2006PTC041058, incorporated 27 November 2006 |
| TE Projects (India) | CIN U70102KA2006PTC040793 |
The group runs an in-house manufacturing arm, Machine-Craft, which produces joinery and building components for its own projects. Vertical integration of that kind is unusual among developers of this size and is part of why the detailing survives from drawing to site - though it also means the practice carries fixed capacity that has to be kept loaded, which is one reason its programme runs to longer cycles.
Verification
How to check any of this
Company facts are verifiable against the MCA register using the CINs above. Project approvals are verifiable at rera.karnataka.gov.in. One distinction is worth knowing when reading any RERA number attributed to this or any developer: a genuine Karnataka project registration carries a /PR/ segment, while an /AG/ number is an agent registration and does not register a project at all. The two are routinely confused in marketing material.
For this project specifically, no Karnataka RERA registration exists as at 15 August 2026 - a full parse of the registry across 9,876 project records returned no entry anywhere in Anekal Taluk. The developer's corporate office can be reached on 080-4245 3000. For enquiries about this project, use the contact page.
Buyer Questions
About Total Environment - FAQ
When was Total Environment founded, and by whom?
It was incorporated on 10 July 1996 under CIN U45202KA1996PTC020790, founded by Kamal Sagar and Shibanee Sagar - both architects. Material giving 1997, or naming only Kamal Sagar, is incorrect on both counts.
How much has the developer delivered?
CRISIL's assessment of March 2025 records roughly 64 projects and 5.5 million sq ft delivered, with 12.69 million sq ft under development and a 79 percent booking rate.
What is Total Environment known for architecturally?
The cantilevered terrace garden, first built at Green is the Color in 1996, where terraces alternate direction on consecutive floors. The wider palette is exposed brick, board-marked concrete, black painted steel and structural landscape.
Does Total Environment build plotted developments?
Only two: Devanahalli and Alibaug. Tangled Up in Green at Devanahalli is 968 villa plots across 115 acres with a published 1,800 to 5,000 sqft band. There is no Total Environment plotted project in East Bengaluru.
Where is the developer's head office?
IMAGINE, No. 78, ITPL Main Road, EPIP Zone, Whitefield, Bengaluru 560066. The corporate line is 080-4245 3000.
How do I verify a RERA number for this developer?
Check it at rera.karnataka.gov.in. A genuine Karnataka project registration carries a /PR/ segment; an /AG/ number is an agent registration and does not register a project. For this project, no registration exists as at 15 August 2026.