Leena Kurup

While designing the new Globant office, a number of factors were considered to ensure that it is aimed to sustain efficient functioning. Collaborative spaces were created giving utmost importance to open spaces for utilisation of natural light, LED lights were used, the open ceiling integrated specially manufactured acoustical pods, auto sensors were installed in washrooms, etc. A thermostat management unit ensured considerable power saving and allowed for indoor temperature control.

Building the infrastructure ensuring sustainability is the way forward for the company. What started as an environmental or social cause has become a way of life. An organisation’s contributions to society are judged on the basis of the quality of the goods and services they produce as well as the care shown towards people and the environment, with assuring compliance to laws that are designed to protect the environment and wildlife habitats; and Globant aces in this regard.

Providing us an insight into their process, Kurup asserts that “FMs must assess the overall effects of facilities on the environment at the earliest possible stage in all processes – from planning and design to construction and management. FMs play many different roles when it comes to sustainability initiatives and they need to be thoroughly ready in the implementation of any given sustainability initiative.”