Grundfos goes Green

The Danish company, Grundfos, is a global pumps and pumping systems leader serving the residential, commercial-building and process-industry markets, as well as being a major supplier to the water-supply and water-treatment industries. It employs more than 18,000 employees in 81 different countries.

Grundfos-India is based in Chennai and holds the company's first green building. After touring through the complex it made me realize how rewarding it must be to work in an environment that is so green friendly and environmentally conscious.

The concept of sustainable building incorporates and integrates a variety of strategies across project life cycle. Use of green building materials and products represents one important strategy in the design of a building. Integrating green products into building projects also help reduce the environmental impacts. The building was built specifically with windows and skylights that would have direct sunlight for the longest time throughout the day. It uses all natural lighting and the air was fresh with plants and waterfalls. All of the wood at the desks for employees was reusable wood along with a variety of green products.

We met with the Managing Director of Grundfos India, Ranganath Krishna. He explained that the decision to build green has been of great importance to Groundfos India and that the green building has attracted many architects, contractors and developers. I enjoyed listening to him speak about India's infrastructure and his opinion about the way the United States lives. He was very proud to work in one of the best buildings in India.