Sustainable campus of Claris lifesciences through green initiatives

Aim: Acknowledging the imperative need of entrenching sustainability at manufacturing sites for economic and social development simultaneously with environmental protection, this paper aims at exhibiting the green initiatives taken by Claris Lifesciences Ltd.; a pharmaceutical company with a worldwide presence; with an aim to contribute to developing a sustainable campus. Scope: Abellon Cleanenergy has taken up sustainability study of manufacturing site of Claris Lifesciences Ltd. Designing Claris campus, bearing in mind several sustainable parameters and making it an absolute sustainable campus. The co-generation plant uses biomass, cultivated in the same campus for combined steam and power generation to be used for the processes and operations of the manufacturing plant. To avoid the exposure of the chemical effluents coming out of plant to soil or environment, an effluent treatment plant (ETP) is installed in the campus to treat the water up in order to free the water of harmful contaminants that pollute the receiving environment. Kitchen waste is utilized in the biogas plant to produce fuel while the slurry is used as fertilizer for plantation. Wind tunnels concentrate wind for natural cooling of the campus. The building sections in the campus are equipped with natural lighting and ventilation through sky domes and turbo ventilators and HVAC. The campus takes pride in claiming to be a green with approx. 70% of the area devoted to plantation and lawns. Conclusion: The campus is designed to support the usage of natural capital in the best possible way thereby reducing the carbon emissions and recycling and reusing certain byproducts so as to contribute to a green sustainable campus. In addition to cleaner technologies, Claris has access to monetary incentives by way of revenue generation from trading of carbon credits: It shall be a great reason for IRR boost and pave ways for obtaining conventional financing. (c) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.