CII Sohrabji

Godrej Green
Business Centre

LEED – PLATINUM RATED

CII is internationally
renowned building
designed using the
principles of Green Buildings
and is India’s premier
developmental institution,
offering advisory services to
the industry on
environmental aspects and
working in the areas of
Green Buildings, Energy
Efficiency, Water
Management, Environment
Management, Renewable
Energy, Green Business
Incubation and Climate
Change activities.
“… Grover has dispelled any notion that aesthetics must be sacrificed in the
effort to make buildings “green.”
The centre, through various exhibits and working models, demonstrates how
various green products and environment friendly technologies can be
implemented in industry and building applications.
 Hyderabad, the city of architecture & pearls, now boasts of one of the
greenest buildings in the world. CII - Sohrabji Godrej Green Business
Centre (CII Godrej GBC), cozily nestled close to Shilparamam, is the first
LEED Platinum rated green building in India.
 The building is a perfect blend of India’s rich architectural splendor
and technological innovations, incorporating traditional concepts into
modern and contemporary architecture. Extensive energy simulation
exercises were undertaken to orient the building in such a way that
minimizes the heat ingress while allowing natural daylight to penetrate
abundantly.
 The building incorporates several world-class energy and
environmentfriendly features, including solar PV systems, indoor air
quality monitoring, a high efficiency HVAC system, a passive cooling
system using wind towers, high performance glass, aesthetic roof
gardens, rain water harvesting, root zone treatment system, etc.
 The extensive landscape is also home to varieties of trees, most of
which are native and adaptive to local climatic conditions.
 The green building boasts a 50% saving in overall energy consumption,
35 % reduction in potable water consumption and usage of 80% of
recycled / recyclable material.
 Most importantly, the building has enabled the widespread green
building movement in India.
“Reduce, Reuse and Recycle” is the
agenda of Green building Technology.
Below mentioned are some of the CII FACTS
compared to normal buildings that make the green
features of CII stand out.

 35% reduction in potable water use.

 50% savings in overall energy consumption.
 88% reduction in lighting consumption.
 80% of materials used are either recycled or
recyclable.
 20% of the building’s energy requirement is
provided by photovoltaic’s.
 15-20% less load on AC crediting to aerated
concrete blocks used in facades.
 It’s a Zero water discharge building.
 90% of building daylight.
 75% of occupants have outside view.
SURROUNDINGS:
 The building was designed to have minimum
disturbance to the surrounding ecological
environment.
 This has preserved the majority of the existing
flora and fauna and natural micro –
biological organism around the building.
 Extensive erosion and sedimentation control
measures to prevent topsoil erosion have all
been taken at the site during construction.
 30% of users exercise alternative modes of
transportation: carpools, bicycles, and cars
that run on liquefied petroleum gas, a low-
polluting alternative to conventional gasoline
and diesel .
Green Features incorporated
in CII Building Project
 Bio-climatic Architecture
 Minimize damage during construction (cost
efficiency)
 Occupancy to the natural elements of water flow,
air quality, vegetation, and topography.
 The built form responds to the rocky site.
 The footprint is kept small, and the arrangement of
spaces and the varying levels of the plinth were
designed to respect the distinctive boulders.
 Fenestration maximized on the north orientation
 South side sun glare cut down using Argon glass
 Rain water harvesting
 Large vegetative open spaces
 Swales for storm water collection
 Shaded car park
 Facility for charging electric automobiles and
electric pool car facility for building
occupants
 Site location close to bus and rail lines
 Open space in the site exceed the local
requirements by more than 25%
 All paved parking & pathways constructed
with pervious materials
LEED - CERTIFICATION
 The CII-Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre
(also known as CII or CIIGBC) earned a LEED rating
of 56 credits and became certified LEED Platinum
for New Construction (NC) v 2.0 in 2003.
 This building became India’s first Platinum rated
green building in the year 2004. This remarkable
achievement in turn triggered the green building
movement in the country.
 As a result of concerted efforts, today (as on
March 2015) over 3,000 green building projects,
amounting to over 2.67 Billion Sq.ft, are going the
IGBC way- making India the second country in the
world with largest green building footprint.
 These projects are spread across the five climatic
zones of the country.
 Roof is covered by solar photo voltaic with a 24 KW
capacity. The 100 to 120 units of power generated per
day is fed into the grid meeting 20% of the total energy
cost of the building.
GREEN ROOF :
 “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.
WATER SYSTEM
 “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,”