Romeet Kaul
CDK Global (India) strives to provide its associates with an environment that fosters productivity and innovation. To improve the performance of their office facilities, they follow standard systems – ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001 – that have helped them achieve improved efficiencies around quality management, environmental sustainability, and best practices in occupational health and safety.
“We have deployed solutions to help reduce carbon footprint and lower operating costs. Use of motion-driven LED systems, and variable air volume (VAV) type of HVAC system are some of the key measures we have taken. At our Hyderabad facility, we have been consistently achieving an average power consumption of 1.05 KWH per sqft/month for the last year,” says Kaul.
In India, real estate is the second largest employer after agriculture and is slated to grow at 30% over the next decade, so opportunities are tremendous, according to Kaul. “New government initiatives such as Smart Cities, GST, labour reforms, Make in India, Swachh Bharat, 24/7 malls, etc., will result in enhanced public infrastructure and improved ease of doing business. The growing flow of FDI into Indian real estate industry is encouraging increased transparency. Developers, in order to attract funding, have revamped their accounting and management systems to meet due diligence standards. As a corporate citizen, our social responsibility is to contribute to initiatives like Swachh Bharat, Solar Net Metering, and Accessible India (Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan),” adds Kaul.
