Surat Diamond Bourse Becomes World's Largest Office Building

Surat bourse pips Pentagon as the world's largest office building. The recently-constructed Surat Diamond Bourse in the city, is billed as a “one-stop destination” for more than 65,000 diamond professionals, including cutters, polishers, and traders.

According to a report by CNN, the newly-opened Surat Diamond Bourse consists of 15-storey complex, built across more than 35 acres of land. The building has over 7.1 million square feet of floor space. Thus overtaking US Pentagon as the world's largest office building.

The Rs 32 billion project houses comprises marble floors and light-filled atriums connecting over 4,700 office spaces. The bourse has more than 4,700 office spaces, which can also serve as small diamond-cutting and polishing workshops. The development also includes 131 elevators, as well as dining, retail, wellness, and conference facilities for the workers.

The building is cooled using natural ventilation, while common areas are powered using solar energy. A flared shape has been designed to funnel prevailing winds through the structure, and “radiant cooling" circulates chilled water under its floors to reduce indoor temperatures.