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Siemens Real Estate (SRE)
With innovative models for reducing the resource consumption and increasing the energy efficiency of buildings, we’re making Company properties profitable over their entire lifecycles. For example, our GreenBuilding initiative, which targets both new and existing buildings, aims to reduce energy and water consumption at key Siemens locations by a full 20 percent by 2011. A building at the Company’s Lindenplatz facility in Hamburg shows just how we intend to achieve this ambitious goal. An advanced cooling system installed by our experts has cut the building’s water consumption by roughly 10,000 cubic meters a year – a 71 percent reduction. But not only has the system slashed water consumption; it’s also reduced wastewater production by 3,000 cubic meters and energy consumption by over 50 percent. Thanks to our efforts, the building is now one of seven Siemens structures in Germany with GreenBuilding certification from the European Commission.
We currently manage some 34 million square meters of land and 17.7 million square meters of building space at over 3,000 locations worldwide. For nearly half this real estate, we have direct business responsibility. Taking into account entire building lifecycles – from requirements analysis and design to the planning, construction, operation, renovation and even demolition phases – our focus throughout new development projects is on resource conservation and efficiency. At our Chinese Regional Company’s newly opened headquarters in Beijing, for instance, we’ve installed an automation and energy management system to optimize the control of all building systems. Equipped with a climate control solution based on high-efficiency heat recovery technology, the building uses 28 percent less energy than its conventional counterparts.
With our flexible real estate strategy and intelligent location concepts, we’re helping Siemens tap sales markets worldwide – thereby laying the groundwork for the Company's business operations and providing the infrastructure necessary for the worldwide growth of its Sectors and Divisions. In addition, we’re continually optimizing Siemens’ real estate portfolio. For example, to reduce our ownership rate at selected locations, we placed several properties on the German market in 2008.