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In 1985 Sankar came back to Kerala from Delhi following his dreams to propagate an alternative method of construction. In 1987 he registered the Habitat Technology Group and began his lone crusade in a small rented room with one office staff. Initially, it was difficult to convince people about the sustainability of his technology. For months he remained jobless. The first person to believe in him was Mr. Philip, a bank officer, who became his first client. Work began to flow in eventually. In the first year, he made 13 buildings. But his aim was not, and still is not, to build big masons but to build houses for the common people. He has a very interesting client list that includes fishermen, slum dwellers, lorry drivers as well as the creamy layer of the society. Sankar's sensitivity to the needs of the common people, the poor and the marginalized has earned him the sobriquet “The people's architect”.

The young and struggling architect, who had started his journey on an untrodden path has come of age. Today he is one of the most successful architects of India with more than 15,000 buildings to his credit. Today Habitat Technology Group has branched out to different states in India and also to the neighbouring countries like Bangladesh and Srilanka. Sankar takes immense pride in the fact that he and his organization have never compromised on their ideology of propagating eco friendly architecture.

G. Sankar, the founder and chief architect of Habitat Technology Group nurtures a dream of building a Habitat commune where they (people) can ‘live together, work together and dream together' for a green habitat.