Manjunath Prabhu

IBM believes and promotes sustainability in all aspects of its internal and external business activities. They conserve natural resources like water, use plain paper, reduce and properly dispose waste generated from offices and cafeterias, harvest natural light and renewable power to reduce power bills, thereby reducing the overall carbon footprint. During the design of IBM campuses, the architects were briefed to optimise space and ensure energy efficiencies; most buildings in the campus have common fundamental elements like floor efficiencies, open-space designs, sustainability, energy-efficient M&E systems, with a focus on safety and security of employees.

In order to align business growth, some of the major challenges have been to deliver projects within timelines, select M&E systems at market competitive rates, ensure lead time of imported systems, and ensure that all relevant processes, checks and balances were met.

“We executed projects in phases, the core idea typically differed from building to building. The emphasis was to always be ahead of time and incorporate the latest and contemporary project elements, while keeping in mind IBM’s design ethos,” reveals Manjunath. The team made efforts to synergise the brand with its occupants through open and collaborative spaces, focus on life and safety, natural light harvesting, deployment of technology such as like BMS, occupancy sensors, LED, etc.