The Hindu Business Line : Green Business Centre gets `Platinum Certification'

THE Green Business Centre, a unique project that facilitates environment and energy-related certification and provides consultancy services, has received `Platinum Certification'. This innovative project is set to be completed by July-August 2003.

The Secretary-General of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Mr Tarun Das, today said that the Green Business Centre, being developed at Hyderabad near the Hitec City, with an outlay of Rs 7 crore, has received Platinum Certification which has thus far been awarded to only two other buildings located in the US. This means that this will serve as a model both in terms of planning, architecture and the materials that have gone into its development.

The Green Business Centre, the only one to be developed in the Asian region, by the CII and the Andhra Pradesh Government with technical support from the USAID, to offer Green services, will become the centre for CII to provide its expertise. Once this project, which is now at advanced stage of development is completed, the CII will relocate its energy and environment practice to Hyderabad, Mr Das said.

Platinum Gradation has cleared plans for the Green Business Centre and this will be first such facility built outside the US to be accorded such a rating. Every little detail, including design and lay-out has to conform to these international standards as per the certification agency. Architect Karan Grover has provided designs.

"Once this centre is developed, the whole world will come to Hyderabad to see the building for its architecture, design and material that will go into the development of the building," Mr Das said. It may be recalled that the CII and the Government of Andhra Pradesh had announced that a unique world class Green Business Centre would be developed at Hyderabad during the Partnership Summit. Following this, the State Government has allotted a 5-acre site to the CII to take up the project and the work is underway.

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