Basis Bay takes green further

"Published: Wednesday August 26, 2009
MYT 12:24:00 PMUpdated: Wednesday August 26, 2009 MYT 12:25:48 PM
Basis Bay takes green further
By JO TIMBUONG
CYBERJAYA: Technology services and hardware solutions vendor, Basis Bay Sdn Bhd has taken the green IT movement to another level. Through its subsidy, Basis Bay Properties Sdn Bhd, it has built two new datacentres — in Cyberjaya and Glenmarie, Shah Alam — based on green architecture. According to its chief executive officer, Datuk Praba Thiagarajah, Basis Bay invested more than RM50mil in building the Green Datacentres and expects this amount to increase as it continues to improve the buildings to meet the latest environmentally-friendly requirements. The company doesn’t view its environment-friendly efforts as following the current fad in the IT sector but as a longterm plan that will help it use resources more efficiently. “It’s a natural progression of the company. We’ve always been green even before it was the in-thing, so this is just an extension of our environmentally-friendly policies,” he said at the launch of the datacentres in Cyberjaya. Before the company ventured into building datacentres, it sold pre-owned servers which it had first refurbished. The datacentres incorporate several environmentally-friendly features and is designed to lower the cost of cooling as well as heating. The features include the use of natural resources such as solar energy for lighting purposes and a storm/rain water management system for watering the gardens and provide supply to the toilets. The company is also patenting an architecture that recycles hot air from its air conditioner outdoor condenser units to provide hot water to the toilets in the building, which will be built in stages. The company offers a host of services from its datacentres ranging from webhosting to datacentre management. Basis Bay said it also plans to “green-up” its two other datacentres in Kulim Hi-Tech Park and Taman Temasya Shah Alam."

This article has been taken from the Star ..It was great cause there's still a party that willing to take care of the environment eventhough it cost a lot of money to do this...It takes time for the company to regain the profit , but it really helps in the future...I hope in the future there are a lot of company that will join this activity and hope that government will make it compulsary for all the building that will be build in this country so that we can prevent the gobal warming , ozone depletion and many others environmental damages..

Green buildings often include measures to reduce energy use, which this is the main thing that should be considered when build up a building.Increasing the efficiency to reduce energy used, it can be build using high efficiency windows and insulation in walls, ceilings , and floors.Effective window placement can provide more natural light and lessen the need for electric lighting during the day.Onsite generation of renewable energy through solar energy, wind power, hydro power, or biomass can significantly reduce the environmental impact of the building. Power generation is generally the most expensive feature to add to a building.

To reduce the impact on water treatment plants several options exist such as can reuse again the water that collected from waterharvesting to used as water flushing for toilets or any other uses .Centralized wastewater treatment systems can be costly and use a lot of energy. An alternative to this process is converting waste and wastewater into fertilizer.By collecting human waste at the source and running it to a semi-centralized biogas plant with other biological waste, liquid fertilizer can be produced.The building itself can have thier own waste water treatment and can convert this activities into side income for the company.