ACC has made an important beginning by setting up Green Building Centres in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan. The company now plans to set up 10 such centres to reach out to a larger customer base.

ACC Green Building Centres provide a valuable platform to enable distribution of low cost, local and environment-friendly building materials and solutions with opportunities for training and creating livelihoods. In a country which faces a massive shortage of affordable housing particularly in small towns and villages, what this project does is to redefine Affordable and Eco-friendly Construction in Rural India.

Waste Management Services/ Alternative Fuels & Raw Materials
ACC actively promotes the use of alternative fuels and raw materials and offers total solutions for waste management including testing, suggestions for reuse, recycling and co-processing. It provides sustainable waste management solutions to various waste generating industries and civic bodies through co-processing of various industrial and municipal waste. The company’s portfolio of clients has further increased with new waste streams. Efforts continue to be made to reduce dependence on fossil fuel and increase the use of biomass as a renewable source of energy. The company’s initiatives of extending waste management services through co-processing in cement kilns are getting wider stakeholder acceptance. To cater to the increased requirement of co-processing services for waste management, the Company is setting up three pre-processing platforms for converting waste into acceptable quality Alternative Fuels and raw materials. The AFRs generated in these facilities will be utilised for co processing in three of our cement plants.

Energy Efficient Buildings
ACC has three Green buildings which includes its headquarters building, Cement House, which became the country’s first renovated building to win green building certification. With LEED Gold certification, Cement House also holds 5-Star Energy efficiency status awarded by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency Government of India, re-emphasised its energy efficiency by registering a reduction of eight per cent in energy consumed during 2013 thus recording the lowest level of energy consumption in the past six years. La Residency, ACC’s green building in Thane, formally received Platinum Certification from the Indian Green Building Council. This is a plush residential facility for delegates of ACC’s modern learning centre in Thane. The building was constructed in 1965 as a residence for ACC employees. Both buildings were used to showcase the ease of retrofitting old buildings to make them green. ACC has one other green building certified LEED Platinum which is the Central Control Room at its Chanda cement plant. A similar green building is also being built for the new Jamul cement project being implemented in Chattisgarh.