JCCU and the Japan CO-OP Insurance Consumers’ Co-operative Federation (JCIF) have announced the CO2 reduction data of “Coop Kyosai Plaza” which is an environmentally friendly office building designed for the purpose of ensuring high business continuity while reducing the environmental burden by reducing the use of energy and water. It was completed in May 2015 and soon began full-scale operation as the headquarters of JCIF.

The measured value of the CO2 emissions from June 2015 to May 2016 was 317t / year (monthly average: 26t) less than the originally expected goal set at 335t /year. Had the building not being environmentally friendly the CO2 emissions would have been 736t /year (estimated) implying that “Co-op Kyosai Plaza” has achieved a reduction of 56%.

The rooftop of the 8 th floor and the walls of the building have been designed with some special technology.

The exterior has green walls decorated with crawl evergreen vine plants and having rain chain that guides rain water down from the building roof to the plants on the ground and in addition, various technologies have been adopted such as the blocking of solar radiation by plants, reducing the evaporative cooling effect, and with the pipe installed under the floor there is flow of cold water in summer and hot water in winter.

The evaporative cooling effect that is enhanced by planting herbs, etc. have a relaxing effect on each floor of the balcony.

Also incorporated are the floor spout air conditioning and the ceiling slab emission air conditioning. It is also equipped with task ambient lighting system that illuminate the desk and its surroundings and also the ceiling at the same time. It also has a heat source system that can be used in cooling solar heating and lowtemperature waste heat.

The building covers an area of 1,556.80㎡ / construction area: 1,216.15㎡ / Total floor area: 8,652.86㎡.

JCIF won the Minister of Land, Infrastructure Transport and Tourism “Specialized Greening Technology” Award contest organized by the Organization for Landscape and Urban Green Infrastructure, for private companies, public organizations or individuals having been recognized as an organization with outstanding achievement such as promoting further the spread of greening technology for the purpose of contributing to the realization of an affluent urban life.

The contest was hosted by the Minister of Land, Infrastructure Transport and Tourism, the Ministry of Environment, the Tokyo Metropolitan and the Nikkei Inc.

JCCU and JCIF will continue working to solve environmental and energy problems to enable members to live in the communities with a sense of relief and satisfaction.

JICF in a glimpse:

The Japan CO-OP Insurance Consumers’ Cooperative Federation (JCIF) is a union of consumer co-operative societies nationwide which are affiliated with JCCU. It offers insurance products that suit members’ needs with more reasonable premiums and better coverage. It was established by JCCU in 2008 under the revised Co-op Law adopted in 2007 that required Co-ops conducting insurance business to separate the organization from the insurance business. On March 21, 2009 JCIF started fullfledged insurance business taking over all the insurance business from JCCU affiliated co-ops. As of March 20, 2016, JCIF has on record 8.37 million policy holders. Payment of insurance claims totaled 62.9 billion JPY.