Environment Committee reports back

By Chairman Priyasri Patodia The environment-friendly, energy-saving façade and landscape lighting at the CSMVS Museum is in tandem with the solar plant installed by RCB in the same premises. CSMVS is a Grade-I Heritage building of the city housing an outstanding collection of about 50,000 artefacts.

The CSMVS museum has been issued a Platinum Certification (the highest on the sustainable practices rating scale) from the IGBC (Indian Green Building Council). It is a certification that is issued to public buildings that develop
sustainable practices and solutions to reduce negative environmental impacts.

An updated list of activities follows, achieved by Joyoti Roy (Head, Marketing and Strategy) and Bhavdatt Patel (Administrative Officer appointed by CSMVS) and Rtn. Priyasri Patodia (Chairman, Environment Committee).

*Appointment of a professional lighting designer: Bhagvan Shirsekar (Lighting Environment Design). The consultant made five site visits and submitted a proposal to the RCB Director and President.

*An MOU was signed between RCB Charities Trust No 3 and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya. Since the museum is under the Green certification programme and Ms Kirti Patil of Eco First is the appointed consultant, there was a meeting to comply with the requirement for the green certification.

*A Rotary event was held to place the placard at CSMVS. The proposal was presented to the CSMVS team. Drawings and scope of work were presented as well.

*A floating tender was circulated to five bidders – Crompton, Philips, Bajaj, Studio Licht, Techvision Design. A comparison-based report was submitted of quotations received from vendors.

*Final evaluation reports were made and the vendor was finalized. The site visit was carried out with the vendor and the person of contact at CSMVS Museum.

RCB’s sincere gratitude goes out to Rtn. Manoj Israni for his enormous donation towards the Museum.