M K Cariappa

The 113-year-old ITC campus has 22 buildings that were originally cigarette manufacturing units. The upkeep and maintenance of these structures pose a big challenge. The systematic maintenance plan, re-certification of structural stability, waterproofing, selective replacement of old electro-mechanical systems, etc, have yielded in trouble-free and stabilised operations.

By careful data evaluation and implementing corrective measures such as chillers operation control, cold aisle and tot aisle segregation at racks without servers, set point control for return air and other operations measures result in achieving a reduction of 1.6 PUE from 1.8PUE. As a part of CSR initiative, ITC runs a programme called ‘WOW’. “The entire dry waste generated in the campus is segregated at source and further recycled, sent to ITC Bhadrachalam and to other recyclers. We convert the wet waste through ‘organic waste converter’ internally and used as manure,” shares Cariappa.

The campus is presently undergoing redevelopment – 2.4 million sqft of IT office is being set up. The biggest challenge becomes the facilitation of the project activity, while the old campus is still in operation. The demolition and reconstruction, re-routing the services, integration of the systems, security, physical movement of employees, etc, are being carried out seamlessly without impacting the operations.