Popular Green Buildings in India

 

   CII-Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre

 

     Location -                 Hyderabad,India

    Completion Year -   2004

    Rating -                    LEED Platinum

    Specialty -                First LEED Platinum rated building outside the US

Green Features:

• Passive Architectural Techniques to minimize the energy demand.
• Most of the terrace covered with Green garden and Solar roof panels which helps in reducing the solar heat from terrace.
• Buildings's  shape and orientation so designed that the wind flows through the water bodies and shaded areas and cools down the surroundings.
• Jali walls to break the sun's heat and at the same time allowing light and wind to flow through.
• 2 wind catcher towers(can be seen in the picture) to trap and release the warm air from the building to outside.
• Locally sourced Green materials like fly ash bricks.
• Onsite waste water treatment and recycling.
• Bagasse(Waste product after sugarcane harvest) has been pressed and used as alternate material to plywood.
• Electrical charging stations available in the campus.

    Suzlon One Earth

    

    Location -                 Pune,India

    Completion Year -   2009

    Rating -                    LEED Platinum, GRIHA 5 Star

    Architect -                Christopher Charles Benninger

Green Features:

    Energy:

• Onsite Wind energy - 18 windmills  4.75 kW capacity each
• Onsite Solar Energy - 13.44 kW installed capacity
• 5% of energy needs met from onsite renewable energy 
• Passive architectural design strategies adopted in the building: 

        Passive Architecture-Orientation:

•  Facades of the building face north, south, north-west and  south-east 
•  100% shading by external louvers on first and second floor.
•  Partly self-shading blocks. 
•  Small terraces created in all blocks to promote interaction with     external environment.

     Reduction in water consumption 

•    Reduction in building water consumption by use of low-flow fixtures. 
•    Water recycled and reused within the complex.
•    Reduction in landscape water consumption by planting native species    of trees and shrubs and by using efficient irrigation systems.

• Green Construction practices:
• Use of post tension steel and concrete members to reduce the member size
• Use of flyash blocks

• Lighting:
•  LED lights with motion sensors
• Day light with adequate glare control measures                        

• Thermal comfort:
•  Pre-cooling of fresh Air
• Heat recovery/exchange mechanisms to minimize energy consumption
•  High efficiency mechanical systems to reduce energy consumption