CII-Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre
■ Vision Other services include - IGBC
Facilitate India to emerge as one
of the global leaders in green
businesses, by demonstrating that
green makes good business sense.
■ Mission
To promote green concepts by
offering advisory services to Indian
Industry, thus enabling greater
resource efficiency and sustainable
development of Industry.
■ Services Portfolio
• Green Buildings
CII–Godrej GBC
through Indian
Green Building
Council (IGBC)
is spearheading
the green build-
ing movement in the country.
­Appropriately, CII–Godrej GBC
is housed in India’s first Platinum
rated green building. In many
ways, this unique distinction has
triggered the 21st century mod-
ern green building movement in
India.
• Green Building Certification
Services
Certification of green building
projects registered under IGBC
Green Building Rating Systems
which includes - homes, new
buildings, railway stations, ex-
isting buildings, schools, factory
buildings, landscape, interiors,
residential societies, campus,
MRTS, townships, villages, cities
and SEZs.
Visit of Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay, Prime Minister of Bhutan
to the CII-Godrej GBC facility
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Other services include
Accredited Professional (AP) PAT Facilitation, Energy
Exam, IGBC Membership Benchmarking, Greenhouse
Services, training programmes Gas (GHG) Accounting and
and Missions. Management Services, Life Cycle
Assessment, Sectoral roadmaps,
• Green Company Rating System
projects, Development of Specific
(GreenCo)
Energy Consumption (SEC)
GreenCo Rating norms for various sectors.
System is the ‘first
of its kind in the • Green Products (GreenPro)
world’, which en- Certification
ables companies to The CII-Godrej
take stock of their environment- GBC assesses how
related performance and plan the green is a product
way forward. based on a life
GreenCo rating system holisti- cycle based holistic
cally evaluates companies against approach and certifies the product
various performance parameters as ‘Green’. GreenPro certification
such as energy efficiency, water system adopts Cradle to Cradle
conservation, renewable energy, approach for evaluation of the
product stewardship, among product.
­others.
• Green Power Market
• Energy Management Services Development Group (GPMDG)
CII-Godrej GBC conducts Through the GPMDG initiative,
detailed energy audits in CII-Godrej GBC aims to scale up
identifying the potential for Indian green energy market by
energy saving opportunities in exploring innovative approaches
the plant. Sectors include Iron & that would increase the share
Steel, Cement, Sugar, Buildings, of renewable energy in the
Pharmaceuticals, Power, overall energy consumption
Fertilizers, Chemicals, Metal, of commercial and industrial
Engineering and Automobile. establishments.
• World Class Energy Efficiency
Initiatives ■ Events
CII-Godrej GBC promotes world • Green Building Congress
class energy efficiency initiative • Energy Efficiency Summit
in cement, pulp & paper, power • GreenCo Summit
and sugar sectors. The objective
• Green Power
of this initiative is to facilitate
• Green Cementech
Indian Industry to continuously
improve their performance and • PaperTech
reach world class standards. • Power Plant Summit
Suresh Prabhu, Minister for Railways, presenting the GreenCo Award to Vinod Kumar
Yadav, General Manager, South Central Railway (SCR) for Lallaguda Carriage
Workshop (GreenCo Silver rated) in New Delhi
• Waste Management Summit
■ Awards
• National Awards for Excellence
in Energy Management
• GreenCo Best Practices Award
■ Partners
• Adelphi
• ADFIAP
• Alliance to Save Energy
• Aluminium Stewardship
Initiative
• Bureau of Energy Efficiency
• CTI Private Financing Advisory
Network (PFAN)
• Eco Invent
• EMPA
• International Finance
Corporation (IFC)
• GIZ
• Swiss State Secretariat of
Economic Affairs (SECO)
• Shakti Sustainable Energy
Foundation
• Swiss Agency for Development
and Cooperation (SDC)
• Swedish International
Development Cooperation
Agency (SIDA)
• Small Industries Development
Bank of India (SIDBI)
• The Rockefeller Foundation
• UK Foreign and Commonwealth
Office (FCO)
• United States Agency for
International Development
(USAID)
N Chandrababu Naidu, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
presenting the IGBC plaque to Ramesh Kymal, CMD,
Gamesa Renewable Pvt Ltd for Platinum rated Gamesa’s
Blade factory building in Nellore
• US Environmental Protection
Agency (USEPA)
• United Nations Industrial
Development Organization
(UNIDO)
• World Green Building Council
(WorldGBC)
• World Resources Institute
(WRI)
■ Achievements Dr Prem C Jain, Chairman, IGBC
presenting IGBC plaque to Arundhati
• CII-Godrej GBC is India’s first Bhattacharya, Chairperson,  State
Platinum rated green building. Bank of India for Gold rated State Bank
Academy in Gurugram
• India, with over 4.53 billion sq.ft
stands number 2 in the world in Rating System: Reference Guide  
terms of largest green building
• Energy Benchmarking for
footprint.
Cement Industry
• Launched 20 types of CII-IGBC
• Manual on Thermal Energy
Green Building Rating Systems.
Efficiency in Cement Industry
• 150 GreenPro Certified Products.
• Environmental Best Practices
• GreenCo Rating awarded to 100 Manual
companies.
• Best Practices Manual: Cement
• Conducted over 1,550 detailed Industry
energy audits, resulting in
• Best Practices Manual: Pulp &
annual recurring saving of
Paper Industry
Rs. 2,925 million.
• Facilitated over 210 MW of
green power procurement
through GPMDG initiative. CII - Sohrabji Godrej
• Facilitated over 11 Million
Green Business Centre
Tons/Annum of CO2 reduction.
Survey # 64, Kothaguda Post,
■ Publications near HITEC city
• Green Champions of India: Hyderabad – 500084, India
Coffee Table Publication T: +91-40-44185111 (B)
F: +91-40-44185189
• Green Buildings of India: Coffee
Table Publication E: k.s.venkatagiri@cii.in
W: www.greenbusinesscentre.com
• 20 IGBC Green Building Rating www.igbc.in
Systems: Reference Guide  
www.greenco.in
• Green Company (GreenCo)
CII - Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre, Hyderabad -
India’s first Platinum rated Green Building
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