Green Project of the Month

Suzlon one earth,

hadaspar, pune

TM

Energy Savings

47%

Water Savings

60%

Recycle Waste

Daylight & IAQ

75%

90%

The campus design, interiors, landscape and communication all reflect the core Suzlon
values of agility, creativity, adding value, commitment, and integrity. With One Earth, the
company wanted to create a brand experience for all stakeholders and visitors that would
reflect the global Suzlon brand. The Synefra team was given a dream, a vision and an idea
which they translated into impressive reality. The One Earth campus is the knowledge
and support base for the companys global operations that penetrate 40 countries.
Here are some of the features incorporated in this project to achieve the prestigious
LEED Platinum ratings. The features are listed similar to the LEED rating system.

Project Team Profile

Owner

Suzlon Energy Ltd.

Architect

Christopher Charles Benninger Architects, Pune

HVAC Consultants

Refrisynth Engineers, Pune

Structural Consultants

Vastech Consultants Pvt Ltd, Pune

Landscape Consultants

Ravi & Varsha Gavandi Landscape Architects

Contractor

Vascon Engineers, Pune

Plumbing Consultants

Rahul Dadhphale Piping Consultants, Pune

Energy Consultant/
LEED Facilitator

Environmental Design Solutions, Pune

Project conceived and managed by

Synefra E & C Ltd.

Sustainability at the site

The Suzlon project has a Transportation Policy in
place to cater to about 20% of the building occupants
and employees can avail the company bus services
in addition to the 200 executives participate in the
carpooling program and 30 preferred parking spaces
have been reserved for carpools.
Alternative Transportation has been encouraged
in this project by providing 96 e-charging points to
promote the use of low emitting and alternative fuel
stations like electric cars and bikes.
Various Water Treatment Techniques have been used
in Suzlon One Earth project to ensure general water
quality. The Rain water harvesting system helps to
capture and treat and reuse the rain water on site.
This reduces the need for potable water.
The project has mitigated the heat island effect by
providing 90.99% roof with SRI compliant materials.
The steep slope roof is provided with high reflectance
Indiana copper coated Kalzip Aluminium Profile sheet
whereas the flat roof uses white ceramic tiles; a
concept quite often seen in traditional architecture.
The Solar Reflectance Index of these materials is
more than 78, combining envelope performance
with cost effectiveness.

Water Efficiency
The Suzlon project is an excellent example of a building
that is water efficient. The water use is reduced, generated
sewage is treated and reused on site.
To maximize the water efficiency within the buildings
to reduce the burden on municipal water supply and
waste water systems, following water saving fixtures
are installed at site:
1. Low flow faucets (pressure compensated 1.6 GPM
economic aerators)
2. Touchless urinals with hytronic sensor (0.22l/
sec;default flush time of 4 secs.)
3. Geberit concealed Dual Flush - half/full (0.8/1.6 GPF)
The on site waste water treatment is being done through
a Sewage Treatment plant located at basement to treat
the wastewater to tertiary standards. This treated water
is used for Irrigation completely by eliminating the potable
water demand by 100%. The treated water is also used for
AC make up for the water cooled chillers.

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Energy Efficiency
The following measures have been taken to improve the
building envelope design:
Optimized Orientation - Mass Articulation / Mutual
Shading High Performance Glazing
The exposed glass is 4mm Clear Annealed + 0.76mm
PVB + 6mm KT 455 + 12mm Air gap + 6mm Clear
Heat Strengthened. U value- 0.32 Btu/hr.ft2.F;
Solar Factor- 0.26
Over Deck Insulation
Interior lighting power density <0.8W/sqft (350 Lux
Average)
Use of Day lighting and Occupancy sensors
Some of the HVAC system Green Building features are:
HVAC equipment efficiencies have been designed to
exceed the ASHRAE 90.1 2007
System Flexibility Of Variable Refrigerant Volume System
Pre-cooling And Heat Recovery
Direct-indirect Evaporative Cooling
HVAC (Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning) Systems:
Air recycling systems that filter and also cool the air before
re-supplying have been introduced to reduce load on air
conditioners. The indoor units cooling operation offers
flexibility to the user to control the desired temperature in any
location in the premises according to individual preferences.
Controls for switching on or switching off, scheduling,
temperature and air flow are possible for each enclosed space.
Such flexibility of operation based on users needs curtails
wastage and enables substantially higher energy savings than
conventional systems.
Direct-indirect evaporative cooling: Systems such as Indirect
Evaporative Cooling have been used in certain areas to help
maintain comfortable temperatures of 25C and eliminate the
need for air conditioners. This has helped reduce the total air
conditioning required for the project substantially.
The Renewable Energy system to generate on-site green
power consists of 18 Wind mills combined with 243 Solar
Panels and 5.69% of the buildings energy is being provided by
on-site renewable energy.

Jet fans for parking ventilation: As opposed to conventional

ducted arrangement, fresh air is drawn through large openings
provided on the periphery of the basement, and pushed
by PLC controlled dual speed jet fans towards the center
of the basement. The foul air is picked up at 10 locations
and exhausted onto the terrace level by exhaust fans. The
connected load is brought down to 216 kW as opposed to
472 kW expected in conventional ways. The operation of fans
is based on signals received from CO sensors which further
reduces electrical consumption.
Task Lighting at Each Workstation/ Daylight Harvesting
Design/ Exterior LED Street Lights: The building envelope
optimizes its daylight harvesting potential, thereby greatly
reducing the energy requirement of the building.
Efficient Lighting Design: Making maximum use of daylight
helps to save a significant amount of energy. The 9-ft full height
glazing coupled with a narrow floor plate - 79 ft in general
and 59 ft in block F and G - provide tremendous potential for
daylight harvesting. This potential has been fully utilized by
nonobtrusive placement of enclosures like conference rooms
and the use of intelligent lighting controls.
Cutouts along the periphery wall in the basement and a
large one at the centre of the building cut down the need for
basement lighting during the daytime.
The lighting system in the interiors incorporates dimmable
ballasts, electronic ballasts, occupancy sensors, motion sensors
and daylight sensors. These ensure that lights get switched on
only when required. The general lighting level from the ceiling
luminaries is fixed at 350 lux. The artificial lights can be dimmed
up and down from 0% to 100% depending on the adequacy of
available daylight to meet the 350 lux requirement. The task
lights have a built-in occupancy sensor in conjunction with a
continuous dimmer. Lighting of individual offices is controlled
by combined daylight and occupancy sensors.
Exterior LED Based street lights: The project also showcases
enhanced energy savings due to a LED based Outdoor Lighting
system, which results in around 65% savings (in terms of
wattage) when compared with a conventional scheme. All the
outdoor lights are controlled through the Integrated Building
Management System.

Materials
To reduce impacts resulting from extraction and processing of
new virgin materials, products with high recycle content are
used, which measure to about 13.26% of the total value of the
materials in the project. The use of PPC cement for non structural
areas with fly ash, use of Rerolled reinforcement steel, Fly Ash
Bricks, High recycled content carpets and modular ceilings are
also a part of the Green design features.
To support regional economy and reduce environmental impact
resulting from transportation, around 80% of regional materials
(within a radius of 800 km) are used in this project. Out of this
around 20% of regional materials have been extracted and
manufactured regionally.
Rapidly renewable materials like Tarkett Bamboo flooring, Asis
Board, Archidply, Interface Carpets, Cotton/ Jute carpets were
used and amounted to 5.89% of the building material cost.

Indoor Environmental Quality

The Suzlon One Earth team has taken measures to ensure a very high level of indoor
environment in this project. Some of the Green features pertaining to IEQ are listed below
Campus is non smoking.
CO2 Sensors have been provided in densely occupied spaces and workstation
areas to monitor and control CO2 levels inside the building.
HVAC system is designed for 30% additional ventilation rates required by ASHRAE
Standard.
Low emitting materials - To reduce the quantity of indoor air contaminants Low
Emitting Adhesives, Sealants, Paints and Carpets and composite wood products
have been used.
3M Mats are being used at the entrances to prevent dust entering into the
building. Separate exhausts for the photocopier rooms, separate plumbing at
selected service rooms.
Task lights are provided for individual control for all the workstations and
occupancy sensors are provided for all the areas such as cabins, meeting rooms
and workstation areas.
For Thermal Control openable panels are provided in the glazing for more than
50% of building occupants.
Also there are remote controls for each Indoor VRV unit for thermal control.
Multi occupant spaces provided with multi functional light module, DSI Smart
Sensor occulux, CEFL PIR Occus switches.
More than 75 % of spaces have been designed to get daylight & more than 90%
of occupants have views to outdoors. The workstations are designed with low
partition for better external view.
The basement is designed to be an active part of the structure and not a dead end
meant only as a parking area. It houses the cafeteria and the central plaza and
receives useful daylight through punctures in the upper slab. The result of this
approach is a sense of openness and visual connect in the basement, making the
area activity oriented even while ensuring optimal use of space.

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GREEN DESIGN EDUCATION Suzlon has in place a Green
Design Education policy through which green design education
in given to the new recruits, green awareness program to
employees as per training calendar & continuous Green
Education Programs, distribution, display and dissemination of
green education information.

to make people understand that resources such as paper,

cardboard, food, etc. should be used responsibly in order to
achieve a green office environment. The policy will project the
fundamental understanding that waste management starts
at an individual level and that the person generating waste
should be aware of its importance.

GREEN HOUSEKEEPING POLICY Suzlon with help of CBRE has

in place a Green Housekeeping policy through which a green
housekeeping products and process has been implemented.

Suzlon has identified various processes to recognize and

develop the human behavioral skills necessary to understand
and appreciate the inter-relationship between man and his
bio-physical surrounding. The entire One Earth campus is based
upon the principle of initiating and promoting awareness about
sustainability. Among the various communication strategies
adopted at Suzlon One Earth are Green Design Education,
Green Signage, and the Green Tour. These strategies consider
the built environment in its totality and create a continuous
process for effectively communicating the goals of social
sustainability through the building and its users.

EXEMPLARY PERFORMANCE IN REGIONAL MATERIAL The

project has achieved exemplary performance by using regional
materials which measure to about 50% of the total value of the
materials in the project
CONSTRUCTION ON RENEWABLE ENERGY - The project
offsets more than 50% annual energy consumption used
during construction with renewable energy. This is the most
unique approach taken by any project to ensure dedicated
concern towards environment.
Zero Waste Policy - In addition a Zero Waste Policy has
been formulated that is slated to become a very ambitious,
committed and synchronous part of Suzlons already
established list of Green Corporate Social Measures. The Zero
Waste Policy will guide people to redesign their resource use
system with the aim of reducing waste to zero. It will also help

CONSTRUCTION ON RENEWABLE ENERGY - Suzlon made

an attempt to offset the environmental impact of energy
consumed by the facility, since the Offsite Green Power
produced is more than 50% of Projects Energy Consumption.
Summary of Power Consumption from DG & MSEB
From DG

From
MSEB

Total
Consumption

Actual power
generated from
offsite windmill

34151.4

60097

94248.4

7208180