In September 2010, the $30 million building at our India Technology Center (ITC) in Hyderabad was awarded LEED Gold Certification by the Indian Green Building Council. LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design and is a third-party validation of a building’s sustainable design. The criteria for LEED Gold have been established by the U.S. Green Building Council to measure a building’s environmental and economic performance, as well as provisions for occupant health and safety.
This facility was projected to be 30% more energy-efficient per square foot than a similar sized building due to several state-of-the-art design features. However, we are actually realizing an estimated 48% improvement for the building, and 23% greater efficiencies when factoring in its large development and testing lab. We will use our own CA ecoSoftware to continue to systematically drive reductions in energy and water consumption at this site, our largest technology and development center.
The environmentally friendly ITC campus in Hyderabad is a 30.5-acre highly sustainable, park-like setting with 450,000 square feet of office space. The campus was opened three years ago with one building housing 1,500 employees. The completion of the LEED Gold-certified building accommodates another 1,000 employees. In 2012, the Hyderabad campus received the first prize award for best maintained landscape in its size and industry category. The award is given by the state government horticulture department of India.
In addition to our ITC campus in Hyderabad, in May 2012 we opened a new executive briefing center in Manhattan, New York, which was built to LEED-CI standards. Among the key features are:
- At least 20% of the value of architectural materials comes from recycled elements
- Water efficient flow and flush fixtures result in a 39% reduction in water use
- Energy and water consumption metering tracks actual usage
Green Leases
We are working with global real estate services firm Jones Lang LaSalle to implement a policy of 100% green leases going forward on all non-owned corporate facilities. Currently, we are incorporating sustainability elements into our RFPs, insisting on certain sustainable practices from all landlords. These include recycling programs, green cleaning of the office space and a commitment from landlords to build out our interior premises in compliance with CA Technologies green build guidelines.
In FY 11, we entered into a new green lease in Herndon, VA. Scottsdale, AZ; Ft. Collins, CO; Lisle, IL; Portsmouth, NH; and Plano, TX were completed in FY 12. We now have 297,950 square feet of office space under green leases.
Our Sustainability for SmartSpace program supports our sustainability objectives by integrating sustainable design solutions such as Energy Star rated appliances, locally manufactured building materials to reduce the ecologic footprint, light sensors to reduce energy utilization, low-emitting adhesives for improved air quality, and low volatile organic compound (VOC) paints. We now have six SmartSpace sites in North America at Charlotte and Cary, NC; Herndon, VA; Scottsdale, AZ; Lisle, IL; and Plano, TX.
Real Estate Reductions
Since 2007, operational improvements have allowed us to eliminate over one million square feet of real estate. We were able to reduce our data center space requirements through the sustainable computing approaches detailed in the next section. Our overall office space needs were also reduced through our Flexible Workplace Program. In North America, more than 2,200 employees (almost 32% of our workforce in this region) are teleworkers and home workers. As recently as six years ago, employees participating in this program comprised less than 5% of our workforce.
We decreased our occupied portfolio by 28,000 square feet in FY12. This includes space reductions of 125,263 square feet primarily across Lisle, IL; Plano, TX; and Herndon, VA offset by 97,255 square feet of increases primarily relating to companies we acquired: Nimsoft in Campbell, CA; Arcot in Sunnyvale, CA; and ITKO in Plano, TX.
CA World 2011 Waste Data
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Commodity
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Weight
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Cardboard
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8,758
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Aluminum
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151
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Mixed Paper
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6,342
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Mixed Plastics
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5,738
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Wood
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6,343
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Carpet/Carpet pad
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2,416
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Mixed Metals
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453
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Waste
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7,551
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Total pounds recycled
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30,201
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Total pounds waste
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7,551
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Recycled percentage
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80%
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Waste percentage
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20%
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Waste Reduction
CA Technologies has a corporate-wide global commitment to reduce, recycle, reuse and respect — in order to minimize our impact on landfills. In fact, we recently reworded our recycling goal to get at the heart of the objective: reducing landfill waste. As part of this initiative, in April 2011 we distributed reusable mugs and cups at all of our North America locations. Over the next five months, this small change alone prevented approximately 517,420 styrofoam cups from going to landfill and lowered our landfill waste by more than a ton. At CA World held in 2011, we achieved an 80% recycling rate. We will use this year as a benchmark for our goal and implement measurement reduction processes in our global facilities.
In Hyderabad, our ITC facility has taken recycling one step further. This location, the largest of our research and development centers, has built an on-site vermiculture plant, or worm farm, to recycle all non-plastic waste at the facility. In the vermicomposting process, earthworms turn organic waste into natural, nutrient-rich, high-quality compost, which is used in campus landscaping and offered to employees for home gardening.
Water Management
As a software company, our operations are not water-intensive. Water discharges stem primarily from operating our office buildings. While some of our facilities are located in multi-tenant properties over which we cannot exercise complete control, all of our data centers have a closed-loop water system and therefore use minimal water. In addition, we reclaim 100% of rainwater at our Hyderabad facility and use it for our landscaping needs.
Though we only have metered water data for 12 facilities, we plan to expand the measurement of our consumption in other offices. For our Islandia office, we estimate that we used approximately 28 million gallons of water in 2011.
