Disha has significantly reduced environment impact, says ABB
ABB India, part of the Swiss global conglomerate, has moved its corporate and business office to an integrated, sustainable and digitalized facility within its own Peenya campus in Bengaluru, minimizing carbon footprint by sourcing 90% electricity from renewables.
Located in one of the prime industrial areas of Bengaluru, the 15-acre campus also reduces 55% load on potable water with intelligent fixtures, and with 98% of its waste recycled, almost reaching target of zero waste to landfill. The new office has a green cover of about 30%.
The facility, named Disha, houses corporate office along with offices of Electrification, Motion and Process Automation businesses.
By upcycling and repurposing an existing building to convert it to Disha, the project has optimized resources and significantly reduced the environmental impact which a greenfield project of this scale would have generated, said ABB in a release on 1 Nov 2021.
Showcasing ABB’s expertise in digital energy management solutions, more than 5,000 ABB products are being used in Disha. It is the first facility to deploy ABB’s Aspect IBMS (Integrated Building Management Solutions) technology. This is a unified platform to monitor and control from any location or city, the multiple points enabled with hundred sensors from lighting to HVAC solutions, room controls, safety and security systems with special CO2 monitors for ambient air quality monitoring in the rooms.
This is combined with a cloud-based SaaS solution – ABB Ability™ Building Ecosystem with Active Energy and Asset Manager. It is complemented by electricals from the ABB portfolio and an AI-enabled vehicle management and parking system. These nearly 500 connected products with embedded intelligence are designed to significantly reduce overall energy consumption and carbon footprint while saving energy costs by up to 30 percent.
“At ABB, we have always taken a sustainable and future-ready approach to business. Sustainability is a key part of our company’s purpose and of the value that we create for our customers, employees, and all our stakeholders,” said Sanjeev Sharma, Country Head and Managing Director, ABB India.
“The move to the existing Peenya campus brings our people together under the same roof enhancing collaboration and agility. It is also a step towards minimizing our carbon footprint, repurposing existing resources while offering a smarter workplace focused on employee wellbeing and improving productivity.
“ABB is developing all the companies’ manufacturing campuses at Nashik, Baroda, Faridabad and Bangalore and multiple office campuses to common ESG standards in India. The vision was to create a model, flexible industrial infrastructure project with an enabling ecosystem by working with all our partners and stakeholders,” said Sharma.
“In India, almost 30% of the energy is consumed by buildings and we believe Disha will create a legacy, a demonstration of what can be done to make buildings more efficient through the deployment of integrated digital building automation and electrical technology,” he said.
This project also included the enhancement of local infrastructure through a 360-degree development of the associated road related infrastructure and laying of cable trenches for future expansion of IT infrastructure of the companies co-located in the area. As part of the sustainable infrastructure development theme, a special recycled plastic mix of 6,000 kg, equivalent to 150,000 one-liter bottles, is used for the footpath construction.
ABB India’s Peenya campus has been in operation for more than 30 years and has been the bedrock of multiple milestones for the company. The campus hosts innovation centers of multiple products, global factories, precision product manufacturing with smart shop-floors and remote monitoring centers for connected devices across Indian industries. The new building, Disha was built continuing the heritage of the location as well as retaining the existing green cover. Nearly 120 trees, some more than 60 years old, were preserved during the construction process.
ABB (ABBN: SIX Swiss Ex) is a leading global technology company that energizes the transformation of society and industry to achieve a more productive, sustainable future. By connecting software to its electrification, robotics, automation and motion portfolio, ABB pushes the boundaries of technology to drive performance to new levels. With a history of excellence stretching back more than 130 years, ABB’s success is driven by about 105,000 talented employees in over 100 countries. #investment #technology #manufacturing #economy /fiinews.com
