Godrej Bhavan Building

Vitals


    • Owner
    • Godrej & Boyce
    • Occupied In
    • 1972 (Retrofit completed in 2010)
    • Location
    • Mumbai
    • Building Type
    • Office
    • Occupancy
    • 102 approx
    • Operating Hours
    • 8.5 hrs/day
    • Total Floor Area Unit
    • SQ. FT.
    • Total Floor Area
    • 41185
    • Air-conditioned Area
    • 23595
    • Grid Connectivity
    • Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST)
    • Building Name
    • Godrej Bhavan Building

Project Team


    • HVAC Engineer
    • In-house team of Godrej
    • Green Building Consultant
    • Godrej’s Green Building Consultancy Service and Ingersoll Rand

Building Design


    • Window
    • Double glazed windows with shading devices
    • Roof
    • Green Roof Garden
    • Artificial Lighting System
      • Philips fluorescent tube lamps with high-efficiency T-5 fittings (lamp life of 27,000 burning hours and low mercury content of 1.4 mg per tube)
    • Sensors/Controls
      • Electronic ballasts with timers to switch office lights off automatically after working hours
    • Datasets/Measurement
      • Installed the Trane Building Energy Management System
    • Active Cooling System
      • New Trane system with a screw chiller, water-cooled condenser, electronic expansion valve, and a high coefficient of performance (COP) of 5.5 from a previous COP of 2.2

Building Performance


    • Lighting
      • T5 Philip Lights

Finances


Lessons Learned


References


    • Awards
      • LEED Gold Certification by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC)
      • 2011 INGERSOLL RAND, Energy-Efficiency Leader Award

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