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BUSINESS CENTRE
LOCATION
Hyderabad, India
NAME
CII Sohrabji Godrej Green
Business Centre
DEVELOPER
The project is a unique and
successful
model of public-private
partnership
between the Government of
Andhra
Pradesh, Pirojsha Godrej
Foundation,
and the Confederation of Indian
Industry (CII), with the technical
support of USAID (United State
Agency for International
Development)
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
Karan Grover and Associates,
TYPE
Office building
BUILDING DETAILS
Office building
Seminar hall
Green Technology Centre
displaying
the latest and emerging green
building
materials and technologies in
India
Large numbers of visitors are
escorted
on green building tour
RATINGS
Awarded the LEED Platinum
Rating for
New Construction (NC) v 2.0 by
the
U.S. Green Building Council
(USGBC)
WATER
BODY
ROOF
GARDEN
SOLAR
PV
Year:2003
WIND
Location:Hyderabad,India
TOWERS Building Type:Corporate
Type:Extensive
System:Custom
Size:11000sq.ft.
Slope:6%
FUNCTION:
The confederation of Indian industry (cii) works to create and sustain an environment conducive to the
development of India, partnering industry, government, and civil society, through advisory and
consultative processes.
The CII-Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre serves as a demonstration building for the industry in
India and other countries of the world.
CLIMATE
It remains fairly warm most of the year.
Receive less rainfall in the monsoon.
Temperatures come down in the months of
December and January and the nights become quite
cool in and around the Hyderabad city.
During the summer months, the mercury goes as
high as 42 C while in winters the minimum
temperature may come down to as low as 12 C.
Central courtyard.
PLAN
COURTYARDS
SOLAR SYSTEM
Harvesting of solar energy - 20% of the buildings energy
requirement is catered to by solar photovoltaic
The Solar PV has an installed capacity of 23.5 KW Average
generation is 100-125 units per day
The solar panels are placed on the eastern side and they are
sloping which helps production of energy throughout the day
as it is a commercial building more amount of energy is
consumed during the working hours [day] compared to the
evenings.
ROOF GARDEN
Absorbing heat and radiating it into the building. This is minimized
through the roof gardens covering 55% of the roof area.
Roof garden prevent formation of heat islands on the roof and acts as
insulation to ingress of solar heat.
Rain water harvesting.
Seepage into the ground have been installed in
pedestrian areas and parking.
The green roofs on the curvey building are divided into parcels that are separated by parapets. On top of a concrete roof, the green roof system
begins its build-up with three layers of waterproofing. The green roof system comprises 2" of sandy soil topped with the same pervious paver
blocks used at grade, and overlain with a uniform grass sod. In their appearance and composition, the green roofs are identical to the grassy
pedestrian and parking areas at grade.
All wastewater and runoff generated by the building is recycled by "root zone treatment" where specially selected plants purify and filter the water
that irrigates them. Water leaving the root zone treatment is directed to one of three ponds, thereafter to be used for domestic purposes.
The building achieves a 35 percent reduction of municipally supplied potable water, in part through the use of low-flush toilets and waterless
urinals.
As part of the zero discharge design, recycled water from the building is used for irrigation and any runoff is directed to percolate at grade. During
the dry season, the green roofs are irrigated daily
NATURAL LIGHTING
Natural light deflection systems can direct light deep into the room and ensure better natural
lighting provisions.
North Light For indoor Day lighting
The most prominent feature of the building is that almost 90% of the interiors are daylight.
This is achieved by providing north lighting and windows looking into courtyards. The regularly
occupied areas of the main office and information Centre are daylight.
WIND SYSTEM
Due to the unpredictable wind direction, opening on all four sides are provided with an additional
affect due to wind pressure. The rate of heat transfer mainly depends on surface area with which, the
air comes in contact. Here the surface area is increased by having vertical conduits, which gives less
resistance to air flow. Further, the effectiveness is increased by having sprinklers to promote the
evaporative cooling
SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS
A large amount of energy and pollution was also reduced through choices in the
production and transportation of building materials.
An impressive 77 percent of the building materials use recycled content in the form of fly
ash, broken glass, broken tiles, recycled paper, recycled aluminum, cinder from industrial
furnaces, bagasse (an agricultural waste from sugar cane), mineral fibers, cellulose fibers,
and quarry dust.
The building reuses a significant amount of material salvaged from other construction
sites like toilet doors, interlocking pavement blocks, stone slabs, scrap steel, scrap glazed
tiles, shuttering material and, interestingly, the furniture in the cafeteria. A waste
management plan ensured that 96 percent of construction waste was recycled.
CONCLUSION
The
building boasts of lighting energy savings of 88 percent compared to an electrically lit building of the
same size.
Vegetation
that was lost to the built area was replaced by gardens on 55 percent of the roof area.
The
building achieves a 35 percent reduction of municipally supplied potable water, in part through the use
of low-flush toilets and waterless urinals.
Thirty
percent of users have shifted to alternative modes of transportation: carpools, bicycles, and cars that
run on liquefied petroleum gas, a low-polluting alternative to conventional gasoline and diesel.
95
An
waste management plan ensured that 96 percent of construction waste was recycled.
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