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GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd has been awarded Gold at the ‘ACI Asia-Pacific Green Airports Recognition 2018’ in the 5-15 million passengers per annum category.
SGK Kishore, CEO, GHIAL, received the award during the Green Airports Recognition Ceremony 2018 organised at the Airports Council International’s (ACI) Asia Pacific Regional Assembly in Narita, Japan, on Wednesday. The evaluation was carried out amongst 19 eligible submissions. The review panel praised the Hyderabad airport’s project on ‘Innovation and Technology in Waste Minimisation Project at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad’.
Hyderabad airport has a captive composting plant for processing food waste. The organic manure from the composting plant is extensively used in maintaining the sprawling green cover, which also acts as a natural sink of the carbon emissions, absorbing about 240 tonnes of CO2 a year.
SGK Kishore in a statement said, “Environmental sustainability has been a key theme in the development of the Hyderabad airport, and it permeates every aspect of the airport’s infrastructure and operations to this day.”
Hyderabad Airport has a ‘green’ passenger terminal building with the ‘Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design’ (LEED) Silver certification by the US Green Building Council.
Further, with a 10 MW captive solar power plant, the airport is meeting its daytime energy requirements through ‘Green Power.’
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