Radisson Blu, Bengaluru, Outer Ring Road awarded the LEED Zero Carbon Certification

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Radisson Blu, Bengaluru, Outer Ring Road is rounding out an important year of sustainability-focused milestones by being awarded the prestigious LEED Zero Carbon Certification this month. LEED Zero, developed by the U.S. Green Building Council, is a complement to LEED that verifies the achievement of net-zero goals and signifies market leadership. This follows the hotel’s other important accolade received earlier this year: the hotel was the first in India to be awarded the prestigious LEED V 4.1 Platinum Certificate (for Operations & Maintenance of an Existing Building).

LEED Zero Carbon recognizes net zero carbon emissions from energy consumption through carbon emissions avoided or off-set over a period of 12 months. For more than two decades, LEED has provided a framework for high performance buildings and spaces, and reduced greenhouse gas emissions through strategies impacting land, energy, transportation, water, waste and materials. Building on that work, USGBC has developed LEED Zero, a complement to LEED that verifies the achievement of net zero goals in existing buildings.

Says Mr. Austin Roach (Chairman, Radisson Blu Bengaluru Outer Ring Road – A venture by Roach Lifescapes), “It is indeed heartening to see that our consistent and sincere efforts to protect and preserve the environment are being recognized by some of the world’s leading institutions that are themselves working to accelerate impactful change. Once we were awarded the LEED V 4.1 Platinum Certificate, we then set our sights on achieving net-zero goals – the LEED Zero Carbon Certification is proof of the entire hotel team’s tireless and enthusiastic support of our environmental goals.”

Radisson Blu Bengaluru, Outer Ring Road, has taken many, impactful steps, including investments in renewable energy and innovation, to ensure a consistent reduction of its carbon footprint. The hotel building is 100% powered by green energy, which is generated from its own solar plant. This makes it de facto a net zero energy building. Most of the hotel’s cars used for guest commutes are EVs and in addition, these cars charge on-site with electricity that is generated from the hotel’s solar plant

The hotel has an in-house bio-gas plant, which converts waste into biogas which is sufficient to fully supply the staff canteen for cooking purposes.  The useful by-product of the process is high-quality organic sludge, which is further used to fertilize the gardens. This has allowed the hotel to completely move away from non-organic fertilizers. This system has allowed the hotel to achieve 100% circularity as far as organic waste management is concerned, making it an industry first in the hospitality sector in India.

To avoid using single-use plastic bottled water, the hotel has installed an in-house water bottling plant and refills glass bottles used in all guest rooms, restaurants, and banquet facilities. This system alone has allowed to avoid more than a tonne of plastic waste every year.

The hotel excels in minimizing water use. It has a robust rainwater capture, reuse, and recharge system in place. Over 40% of the roof area is used for storing in the rainwater sump and re-using the captured rainwater for domestic purposes through a filtration plant. The water used for the large on-site laundry is 100% circular. An ETP (Effluent Treatment Plant) of 40 Kilo Litre Per Day has been installed to recycle all of the hotel’s laundry water. The same water goes to an STP (Sewage Treatment Plant) for further processing and to bring it back to the required quality for reuse, the water is then run through UF (Ultra Filtrations) and RO (Reverse Osmosis).

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