This document discusses the sustainability practices at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, India. The airport has achieved LEED Silver certification for its green terminal building. It employs various sustainability practices like maintaining a large green cover on site, conserving energy through efficient systems and renewable energy, managing greenhouse gas emissions, harvesting rainwater, recycling wastewater, and treating solid waste on site. The airport also has a 5 MW solar power plant to generate clean energy.

1. RAJIV GANDHI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT,
HYDERABAD
-A STUDY IN SUSTAINABILITY
-G.ROHITH SAI REDDY
B.ARCH/10038/2015

2. INDEX
 Specifications
 LEED Rating
 Practices employed to achieve sustainability
 Green cover
 Energy conservation
 Practices employed to conserve energy
 Green House Gas management
 Water management
 Solid waste management
 Solar farm

3. RGIA- SPECIFICATIONS
 Location: Hyderabad, Telangana
 Area: 2223 hectares
 Passenger capacity: 12 million per annum
 Cargo capacity: 3 lakh tonnes per annum
 In commission from: 2008
 Annual Max. Temp: 43.0 degrees Celsius
 Annual Min. Temp: 11.8 degrees Celsius
 Annual total rainfall: 802.4 mm
 Elevation: 590 M

4. LEED RATING
 Rajiv Gandhi International Airport is the first Asian airport to get the
prestigious Leadership in Energy and Environment Design New Construction
(LEED NC) Silver Rating for having a green and environment friendly terminal
building

5. PRACTICES USED TO ACHIEVE SUSTAINABILITY
 Greenbelt Cover
 Energy Conservation
 GHG Management
 Air & Noise Pollution Control
 Water Management
 Solid Waste Management
 Environmental Quality Monitoring
 Environmental Promotion
 Community Development

6. GREEN COVER
 A green belt is created in an area of 273 hectares with various plants
 Also 971 hectares of natural greenery is undisturbed
 Approximately 169 tonnes of CO2 / annum has been calculated to be removed
from the atmosphere by the green cover provided

7. ENERGY CONSERVATION
 RGIA has achieved electricity savings of 3.397 million kWh (kilowatt hour) on
an average in the last three years

8. PRACTICES EMPLOYED FOR ENERGY CONSERVATION

9. Though some of the practices sound frivolous, for a project of this
Magnitude every single one of the above serves a huge purpose

10. GREEN HOUSE GAS MANAGEMENT
 RGIA has achieved Level 3 accreditation in the
year 2013
 The scope for this lies with the stakeholders-
airlines, Ground Handling agencies, flight
kitchens and other service providers etc., are
also influenced for effective reduction in the
GHG emission
 It is the first in the country and second in the
Asia Pacific Region to be awarded with the level
3 accreditation
 RGIA reduced 5268 tonnes [5099 tonnes of GHG
emissions + 169 tonnes of GHG sink] of its net
GHG emissions in 2014 over base year 2009 i.e.
17%

11. WATER MANAGEMENT
 100% waste water is recycled along with 100% rain water being harvested
 The sewage treatment plant at the airport treats the waste water for flushing
and it reuses the water for irrigation of the greenery at the airport
 Sludge generated is used as manure
 The waste water generation itself has been reduced to 33litres from 37litres
per passenger since 2013
 RGIA harvests rainwater within the premises of the airport with a built-up
capacity of 0.185 million cubic metre
 The rainwater net recharge at RGIA is estimated to be 1.729 million cubic
metre per annum

12. SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
 As mentioned afore, the food waste is converted to manure by the facility on
site and is used as manure
 The paper and plastic waste are handed over to authorized recyclers for
reprocess and reuse

13. SOLAR FARM
 RGIA has commissioned a 5 MW solar power plant for its captive consumption and
plans to gradually scale the capacity up to 30 MW over the next two-three years
 The farm will cater to about 30 per cent of the airport’s terminal power
requirement at the moment and the authorities intend the airport to eventually
be fully run on solar power
FEATURES:
 Capacity - 5 MW
 Area - 21 acre
 Average Daily power generation - Appx 2.2 MW
 Date of commissioning - 8th Nov 2015
 Theoretical expected generation units: 8 Million kWh per annum

14. BIBLIOGRAPHY
 www.hyderabad.aero
 www.en.Wikipedia.org
 www.gmrgroup.in
 www.economictimes.com
 www.google.com/images

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