Environment
Paperless reporting, consolidated site travel and a preference for rail on regional assignments.
Responsibility
CSR & sustainability
The standards we assess in our clients’ projects are the standards we hold ourselves to.
Our approach
Kakode & Associates assesses more than 5,000 MW of renewable capacity and battery storage, and the environmental and safety compliance of the projects we monitor is part of every LIE report. Our own commitments follow the same logic: measurable, independently verifiable and reported annually.
In our work
Environmental and social review inside every monitoring report
The most direct contribution the firm makes is through the projects it monitors. Every Lenders’ Independent Engineer report records the status of environmental clearance, consents to establish and operate, hazardous-waste authorisation, effluent and emission compliance, and site safety, and flags a lapse to the lender as a project risk in the same month it is observed.
The renewable practice has assessed more than 5,000 MW of solar, wind, hybrid and battery-storage capacity, including the 1,250 MW Serentica Renewables project for KKR and Vedanta, and TEV studies for biomass and ethanol plants that displace fossil fuel.
What we check
Standards reviewed on every monitored project
Environment
- Environmental clearance and its conditions
- Consent to establish and consent to operate
- Effluent, emission and hazardous-waste compliance
- Water-use and groundwater permissions
Safety and labour
- Site safety systems and incident record
- Statutory labour registrations and welfare facilities
- Fire, electrical and structural approvals
- Insurance cover during construction
Governance
- Escrow and fund-utilisation reconciliation
- RERA and statutory filings
- Contract, variation and claims register
- Independence declarations by our own staff
Findings are reported to the lender monthly, and repeated non-compliance is escalated as a disbursement condition.
People
Sponsored professional registrations, equal-opportunity hiring across 11 offices and a safety-first site protocol.
Community
Pro-bono valuation and technical support for co-operative institutions and educational trusts.