Amazon, on 21.8.2019 inaugurated its largest campus building anywhere worldwide that is located in Hyderabad’s financial district. This continues Amazon’s reaffirmation of how India continues to be a key market as well as talent hub for it.
This is the only Amazon-owned campus outside the US and will house over 15,000 employees of its over 62,000 employee base in India. On behalf of the Chief Minister of Telangana, Kalvakuntla Chandrashekhar Rao, the new campus building was inaugurated by Mohammed Mahmood Ali, MLC, Minister of Home, Prisons, Fire Services, Govt. of Telangana, in the presence of Amit Agarwal, SVP and Country Head, Amazon India and John Schoettler, VP, Global Real Estate and Facilities, Amazon.
With 15,000 work points across 1.8 million square feet in office space, built on 3 million square feet of construction area, this is Amazon’s single largest building in the world in terms of total area. The infrastructure has been developed in adherence to Amazon’s exacting standards, designed to facilitate inclusion of employees with special needs and support its diverse workforce.
Amazon laid the foundation stone for the campus building on March 30, 2016. An average of 2,000 workers were on site every day for 39 months to construct the building, spending 18 million man-hours to create a world-class working environment.
Sustainability is at the core of this building which has more than 300 trees dotting its grounds with three specimen trees aged over 200 years and has a 850,000-litre water recycling plant.
Total built-up area when spread out will span over 68 acres (approx. 65 football fields),the construction was awarded the Golden Trophy and Certificate from the National Safety Council for safe construction practices in 2018.
The campus contains over 2.5 times more steel than the Eiffel Tower, measured by weight. The building meets stringent safety standards, with 110 km of fire protection system conduit. The 86-metre buildings are accessed by 49 elevators with high-rise elevators that can move at the speed of one floor per second. The campus has one conference room seat for every 3.25 workstations, higher than the global ratio of 1:5