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Wipro’s Gurgoan Development Center achieves the prestigious Platinum Rating from US Green Building Council.
Secures maximum scores in India and second highest in the world.
Bangalore : Wipro's new Software Development Center in Gurgoan – India, has joined the elite club of 10 Platinum rated buildings world wide. It has achieved the prestigious Platinum Rating in the ‘Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)’ category from the US Green Building Council (USGBC).
Wipro's Facility secured 57 points - the maximum points secured in India and the second highest in the world – from USGBC. Of the 278 buildings certified worldwide by the USGBC, only 10 have the coveted Platinum rating.
The USGBC is the foremost coalition of leaders from the construction industry working to promote buildings that are environmentally responsible and are healthy to live and work from.
The Lighting for the building has been supplied by Wipro Lighting. This includes a sophisticated Lux level cum movement detection sensor operated dim-able lighting systems and is an important energy saving feature of this building. Wipro’s furniture business has also contributed to the aesthetics of the interiors by supplying the modular furniture (Vibrant-3 tile system).
"Applying thought, Wipro's positioning statement governs all our actions and guides to go beyond the ordinary. This guided us right through the process from the original concepts to the final percepts," said S S Ramesh – General Manager (Civil Infrastructure) Wipro. "The LEED system provided us with a structured and focused format to achieve our objectives of delivering innovative, value for money solutions by excelling in the areas of energy efficiency, water conservation and environment protection," he added.
The Wipro – Gurgoan center also aims at encouraging cycling and vehicle pooling by the employees to minimize pollution. Provision of preferential parking, shower and changing facilities for the cyclists, reserved parking for those car pooling, provision of battery charging facility for electric cars are some of the measures adopted. Water usage efficiency is maintained by providing for rain water harvesting and more importantly, by efficient landscaping with native plants.
Wipro operates from 35 delivery centers in India and abroad, with around 5 million square feet of state-of-the-art development facilities housing its 45,000 employees. The Wipro-Gurgoan center has a built up area of 1, 60,000 sq ft built on a 1.12 acre plot. Vidur Bharadwaj (Design & Development Consultants) is the architectfor the project, Spectral are the services consultants while the structural designs were done by M/s. Juneja Structural Consultants. L & T, Blue Star and Johnson Controls were others involved. CII was the LEED consultant supported by EDS (Energy Consultants) and Godrej & Boyce (commissioning agents).
About Wipro Limited
Wipro Limited is the first P CMM Level 5 and SEI CMM Level 5 certified IT Services Company globally. Wipro provides comprehensive IT solutions and services, including systems integration, Information Systems outsourcing, package implementation, software application development and maintenance, and research and development services to corporations globally.
In the Indian market, Wipro is a leader in providing IT solutions and services for the corporate segment in India offering system integration, network integration, software solutions and IT services. Wipro also has profitable presence in niche market segments of consumer products and lighting. In the Asia Pacific and Middle East markets, Wipro provides IT solutions and services for global corporations.
Wipro's ADSs are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and its equity shares are listed in India on the Stock Exchange - Mumbai, and the National Stock Exchange, among others.
For more information, please visit our websites at www.wiprocorporate.com , www.wipro.com and www.wipro.co.in
For information, please contact: Sandhya Ranjit, Manager, Corporate Communication, Wipro. Telephone: 080-28440056.
Email: sandhya.ranjit@wipro.com
Forward-looking and cautionary statements
Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements which involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in earnings, our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services including those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks, our ability to successfully complete and integrate potential acquisitions, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies in which Wipro has made strategic investments, withdrawal of fiscal governmental incentives, political instability, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, unauthorized use of our intellectual property and general economic conditions affecting our industry. Additional risks that could affect our future operating results are more fully described in our filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. These filings are available at www.sec.gov. Wipro may, from time to time, make additional written and oral forward-looking statements, including statements contained in the company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and our reports to shareholders. Wipro does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the company.
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