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Water Reclamation System: Pioneering Sustainable Water Management

WHA Group is leading the position in sustainable water management with its advanced water reclamation systems, designed to provide an alternative water source, particularly in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC).

Waste Management from Construction Processes

WHA Group (“the Company”) is committed to enhancing waste management processes across all four business hubs, in line with the Environmental Quality, Energy Conservation, and Biodiversity Policy. This commitment extends to processes associated with waste management as outlined in Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA). Moreover, WHA Group has established a working committee to oversee and manage waste and demolition waste, ensuring compliance with legal requirements. This committee will assess and categorize waste types generated from the operations of the Company as well as promote effective waste management policies.

WHA Group commits to achieving Net Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2050

WHA Group is committed to conducting business while creating sustainable growth with all stakeholders by giving importance to environment, social and good governance practices. One of the key issues that the Company determines to achieve is to accelerate sustainable climate change action to solve greenhouse gas and global warming issues by reducing greenhouse gas emissions as well as building important infrastructures such as promoting the use of renewable energy and using relevant technologies and innovations throughout the Group's value chain. This ambitious actions will be in line with global trends in responding to climate change issues including Thailand's goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2030 and net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

GREEN BUILDING

The procurement of construction materials is an important step in WHA Group’s project development process. Therefore, the company has implemented sustainable procurement practices to ensure that no products are sourced from protected areas.

Integrated Environmental Management System (EMS)

WHA Group recognizes the critical importance of environmental management and resource conservation. As a result, WHA Group has sought to operate in a sustainable manner, focusing on a practical environmental management system.

Energy Conservation Project at WHA Tower

WHA Group is dedicated to maximizing energy efficiency to achieve the highest benefits by employing innovative technologies and methods to enhance energy utilization efficiency, minimize losses at every stage, encompassing production, construction, operational systems, and overall operations across all four business hubs.

Biodiversity and No Deforestation Commitment

WHA Group commits to taking unwavering responsibility for environmental preservation through biodiversity management actions. In addition, WHA Group also intends to achieve Sustainable Development Goals as well as supporting our alliances throughout the value chain to create a positive impact on the environment, balance the nature and commit to stop or reduce all deforestation and maintain biodiversity.

Drone Technology

WHA Group is currently studying the use of drone technology in the road and traffic monitoring process during rush hours in 2021.

ECO-Industrial Town Development

Eco-Industrial Town is an initiative implemented by the IEAT to promote and gear the economic development and environmental sustainability of industrial estates.

Solar PV ECO System at The Continental Tyres Factory in Rayong

The solar PV ECO system is for the tires manufacturing facility of Continental, located in WHA Eastern Seaboard Industrial Estate 4, comprising a floating solar system on the factory's water pond, a solar rooftop system on its factory buildings as well as a solar car park.

Thailand's Largest Solar Carpark

WHAUP officially delivered the solar carpark at SAIC Motor Company - CP Co., Ltd. (SAIC MOTOR-CP) with solar installed capacity of 4.8 MW. By end of 2021, the second phase of the project was completed.

Energy Saving in Office Buildings

Apart from energy saving schemes conducted at the industrial estates, all business hubs also acknowledge and actively support the directional movement to reduce energy consumption.

Energy Saving in Industrial Complex

To increase equipment efficiency and support the achievement of the energy reduction target, WHA Group has replaced a total of 8,182 LED installed throughout the Group's logistics properties and industrial estates till now.

Solar Rooftop

WHA Group prioritizes the installation of solar panels within the Group's own operations to increase the use of renewable energy consumption. In 2021, renewable energy generated from the installed solar rooftop panels at the water treatment facility at WHA Eastern Industrial Estate (WHA EIE) were able to reduce conventional electricity by 315,857 kWh per year, thus offset 177 tCO2e of GHG Scope 2 emission.

Vehicle Management System

Traffic congestion outside industrial estate during rush hour cause air pollution. WHA Group has invested heavily on smart ecosystems and technologies including the permanent tracking for vehicles and visitors, and drones for traffic management for managing and decreasing traffic congestion as well as pollution.

Control Cable Alarm System

Implementing Control Cable Alarm system, as stated in the Innovation Management chapter, is one of the initiatives that could help reduce air pollution. Installation of CCTVs with motion detecting function at the wastewater pumping stations can eliminate the need for employees to conduct on-site monitoring that required fuel usage for travelling processes.

Adaptive Traffic Control

WHA Group has installed an Adaptive Traffic Control System that uses CCTV to monitor the traffics and calculate the number of vehicles in the industrial complex.

Waste Management Collaboration Project : Hamper and Laptop Case

WHA incorporates with PTT Global Chemical (GC) to collect used PET bottles from school under ThinkCycle Bank Project and collect water hyacinth from wastewater treatment system; polishing pond of ESIE, WHA ESIE1 and WHA ESIE2 forming to yarn and produce hampers and laptop cases.

Reduce Dependency on Plastics

Served together with comfort and convenience, singleuse plastics without proper management are the manmade predators in the ecosystem, imposing potential irreversible, global impacts on vital climate processes and biodiversity levels.

Sort N' Save Project

Initiated from WHA Innovation Leadership Program in 2019, WHA Group has continued to support this project in 2021. The objective of the Sort N' Save Project is to increase environmental awareness amongst WHA Group employees as well as explore plausible innovative business platforms in alignment with the circular economy principles.

Hazardous Chemical Containment Reduction

WHA Group is dedicated to reduce the total volume of hazardous waste generated from its operation. Therefore, starting in 2020, WHAUP procured most of the chemical substances for its water and wastewater treatment facilities via loading tankers.

Paperless Transformation

As part of the Group's digital transformation aspiration, use of technological appliances are encouraged and promoted. Communication, information, and meetings are all made through online platforms, ultimately reducing the Group's consumption of paper.

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Technology at Wastewater Treatment Plant

WHAUP is currently conducting studies to optimize SCADA technology at its wastewater treatment plant located within the Eastern Economic Corridor of Innovation (EECi) in Wangchan district, Rayong province.

Demineralized Reclaimed Water : The Real Sustainable Resource For Future Development

WHAUP invested in Demineralized Water Project, a large-scale project, consisting of 2 operations, each have maximum capacity of 4.38 mm3/year, covering 3% of total industrial water capacity.

Unified Operation Center (UOC)

Unified Operation Center (UOC) system is implemented to centralize, consolidate, and project results from the three monitoring systems offered at the Group's projects and operation sites.

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)

All of WHA Group's required projects have undergone the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Study in accordance with the requirements and conditions outlined in the Promotion and Conservation of National Environmental Quality Act, B.E. 2535 (1992).

WHA Plazas

To further increase the Group's renewable energy generation capability, WHA Utilities and Power (WHAUP) is currently conducting feasibility studies to install solar rooftop panels coupled with battery energy storage system (BESS) at the wastewater treatment plant at Eastern Seaboard Industrial Estate (ESIE).

Air Emission (Adaptive Traffic Control, Drone Technology)

WHA Group conducted various traffic management initiatives in order to control the level of air emissions from internal and external stakeholders transporting within the industrial complex, such as dust and carbon monoxide that could potentially affect local communities and the environment.

Marine Ecosystem Preservation

WHA Group's employees had a chance to visit the local communities on a 2-day Community Visit event, in Toei Ngam Beach, Sattahip Naval Base in Chonburi province. Together with the community leaders and local residents, WHA Group Team visited the site in order to learn more about how to protect and preserve Thailand's tropical ecosystem.

Green Efforts Project

WHA Group participated in a reforestation project with community volunteers to plant 200 samplings of indigenous trees such as afzelia xylocarpa, lamduan, and mahogany at a tropical forest in Bo Win subdistrict.

Water Hyacinth Project

To generate additional income flows toward the local communities of its operations, WHA Eastern Seaboard Industrial Estate (WHA ESIE) implemented an initiative for its surrounding community in the Baan Kai District, Rayong province in 2020.

Clean Water for Planet

WHA Group sees the two-way benefits of this project as it provides the Nong Kla communities with access to clean water source, and the Group can reserve such water supply as backup in the event of droughts. Construction will begin in 2021.

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