CII SOHRABJI GODREJ GREEN

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%

The centre is housed in a green building wh

received the prestigious LEED (Leadership
Energy and Environmental Design) Plat
rating in 2003.

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.

GREEN BUILDING FEATURES

Central courtyard.

Roof garden - protects heat penetration,

cuts
down heat-island effect

High performance glazing to bring in

natural
light while minimizing heat ingress.
Usage of light glazing and vision glazing.

Jali (perforated) wall for bringing in

natural light as well as ventilation .

Energy saving system.

PLAN

COURTYARDS

The courtyards act as "light wells,"

illuminating adjacent work areas.

When this light is not sufficient, sensors

trigger the deployment of efficient electric
lights.

Dimmers automatically control the

illumination levels, turning the lights off when
they're unnecessary.

occupancy sensors prevent a light from being

switched on at an unoccupied workstation.

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

DOUBLE GLAZED GLASS

Double-glazed units with argon gas filling between the glass

panes enhance the thermal properties.

Variations in thickness have a certain effect, up to a certain

limit, on the percentage of radiation allowed to penetrate and on
thermal conductance of the composition.

The main advantage of this type of cross-section is its ability to

reduce heat transfer from one pane to the other, both by
conduction and by radiation.

USAGE OF LIGHT GLAZING

AND VISION GLAZING
The double glazed glass will just allow the diffused
sunlight to pass through and will radiate the solar
radiation back. It is located in the western
direction because the suns rays is highly radiant
when it is setting.

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.

Fig. 1 North light in CII Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre

REFLECTIVE GLASS (MIRROR)

This material will most significantly reduce penetration of
radiation from the reflecting side to the non-reflecting side
(penetration of 11-37% of total striking radiation).
Such glazing is used in this building where it is desirable
to maintain eye contact with the outside as well as to
prevent penetration of radiation and in areas where it is hot
most days of the year.

WIND SYSTEM

A combination of sensible cooling in the ground and evaporative

cooling with the flow of air induced by the wind tower can be
achieved by a configuration as shown.
The heat loss from air results in a decreased air temperature, but no
change in the water vapour content of the air.

WIND TOWERS INTEGRATED WITH HVAC

The wind tower is one of the traditional passive-cooling techniques of the
sub-continent. Here, it has been combined with the HVAC system to reduce
energy consumption. The fresh air that goes in the AHU is pre-cooled in the
wind tower, reducing the intake air temperature by 3 to 5 deg. C. The wind
tower itself is made of hollow masonry, and acts as a thermal mass. It is
cooled periodically by tricking water from the top of the tower. Fig. 21 Wind
tower integrated with HVAC

DAYTIME AND NIGHT TIME OPERATION

OF A WIND TOWER

Wind tower with

evaporative cooling

The hot ambient air enters the

tower through the openings in the
tower and is cooled, when it comes
in contact with the cool tower and
thus becomes heavier and sinks
down. When an inlet is provided to
the rooms with an outlet on the
other side, there is a draft of cool
air. After a whole of heat exchange,
the wind towers become warm in
the evening.

During night the reverse happens; due to warm

surface of wind tower and drop in temperature of
ambient air due to buoyancy effect, warm air rises
upwards. As a result, cooler ambient air is sucked into
the room through the window. As a bye-product of this
process, wind tower loses the heat that was collected
during the day time and it becomes ready for use in
cold condition up to the morning.

Wind tower design with openings on all four sides

Wind tower design with evaporatively cooled 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

USE OF TRADITIONAL JALLI

Jallis or Lattice walls are used to
prevent glare and heat gain while
ensuring adequate day lighting and
views.
The building is cantered around a
circular courtyard .the screen wall or
jaali is effectively used to cut down
the harsh sun, yet allow the flow of
wind
The jalli,gives definition and an
aesthetic appeal to a space.

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

percent of the raw material was extracted or harvested locally.

An

impressive 77 percent of the building materials use recycled content.

waste management plan ensured that 96 percent of construction waste was recycled.

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