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› Panduit Corporation Opens World Headquarters as High Performance Building
Vineeth Ram, Vice President, Global Strategic Marketing, Panduit Corp. Panduit Corporation’s new world headquarters in Tinley Park, Illinois, exemplifies the principles of high performance buildings by incorporating Panduit’s Unified Physical Infrastructure (UPI) approach. UPI represents a dramatic leap forward in collaboration, smart and healthy work environments, energy reduction, and cost savings. It also delivers optimal efficiency without sacrificing effectiveness-significantly reducing capital and operational expenses in buildings while enhancing productivity, safety, reliability, and sustainability. “Panduit’s new world headquarters brings to life our vision for creating environmentally sustainable and healthy places to work,” said John Caveney, Panduit CEO. “We’ve set a new precedent by combining state-of-the-art visibility and control for all critical building systems, sustainable energy, operational cost savings, and intelligent design features—all aligned under a single unified infrastructure.” The new building reflects Panduit’s commitment to solving customer and industry challenges surrounding business continuity, security, agility, and rising costs. During the design phase, energy modeling indicates that the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) design process will provide an estimated annual energy savings of 30 to 35 percent. The building serves as a living case study of the UPI approach, which gives enterprises the capabilities to connect, manage, and automate communications, computing, power, control, and security systems for a smarter business foundation. The headquarters is already being viewed as a model for best-in-class integrated buildings worldwide. By collaborating
NEMA member company executives gathered during High Performance Building (HPB) Week in June to visit the House and Senate, including the offices of Congressman Russ Carnahan (D-MO), co-chair of the HPB Caucus of the U.S. Congress and lead sponsor of HR 5112 Federal Buildings Personnel Training Act of 2010. Pictured above are (l-r) Jim Lewis, NEMA, Manager, High Performance Buildings; Craig Updyke, NEMA, Manager, Trade and Commercial Affairs; Ali Hashemi, Eaton Corporation, Intern; Steve Rood, Legrand, North America, Senior Product Line Manager; Kyle Pitsor, NEMA, Vice President, Government Relations; Heather Johnson, Hubbell Lighting, Inc., Manager, Application Engineering; Jim Pauley, Schneider Electric / Square D Company, Vice President, Industry and Government Relations; Congressman Carnahan; Pamela Horner, Osram Sylvania, Director, Government Regulatory and Industry Relations; Dorene Maniccia, WattStopper, Director, Policy and Industry Affairs; Justin Neumann, NEMA, Manager, Government Relations; and Christopher Hess, Eaton Corporation, Director, Public Affairs. NEMA electroindustry

Panduit is able to address challenges that cut across multiple business and technology domains. “As the trend of building automation and IT convergence advances, the common vision we have developed with Panduit becomes even more relevant. Together we are helping to rethink the way that physical infrastructure is managed and are opening up new opportunities for our customers to place network-driven innovation at the heart of their business,” said David Hsieh, vice president of marketing, Emerging Technologies Group, Cisco. with UPI technology partners, such as Cisco, IBM, EMC, Emerson, Fluke, Haworth, Lutron, Oracle, and Tridium, The building is expected to achieve LEED Gold certification, which is granted by the U.S. Green Building Council. ei

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