ABB India announced that its Integrated Campus in Nelamangala, Bengaluru, has received the Platinum-rated Green Factory Building certification from the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC). This is a significant achievement in line with ABB Group’s 2030 sustainability commitment, a part of which aims to achieve carbon neutrality across its operations. Buildings globally are a major source of energy consumption and carbon emissions. Hence energy-efficient buildings and sustainable campuses with carbon-neutral operations would be key for countries such as India to deliver on their carbon emission reduction targets.
The IGBC Platinum certification is the highest rating offered by IGBC post evaluating a site on innovation in design and environmental categories including Site Selection & Planning, Water Conservation, Energy Conservation, Material Conservation, and Indoor Environmental Quality & Occupational Health.
The Nelamangala campus offers more than 30% energy savings over the ASHRAE 90.1.2004 requirements, green electricity to offset 100% of the non-process load, and uses a high solar reflective index roof (100% of the exposed roof) while 80% of the shop floor area gets daylight through skylights. The campus has also achieved a water positivity index of 1.24, indicating that they are replenishing more water for the environment than what is being withdrawn for their operations. The campus uses a cross wave technology based rainwater harvesting system having an annual rainwater harvesting potential of more than 200 million liters.
With its global 2030 sustainability strategy, ABB is actively enabling a low-carbon society as well as working with its customers and suppliers to implement sustainable practices across its value chain and the lifecycle of its products and solutions. In line with their RE100 goal realization, around 43 per cent of the electricity utilized is through renewable sources including solar power utilization & I-REC procurement. ABB India recycles roughly 95 per cent of the waste generated across all their facilities within their grounds to satisfy long-term sustainability targets of zero waste to landfill. In 2021, compared to 2020, they boosted water recyclability by 4per cent, resulting in a reduction in freshwater withdrawal and the company’s overall water footprint.