Siemens 2008 Annual Report Download - page 73

Products and solutions – Cross-Sector Services 67
Zsolt Sluitner
CEO
With innovative models for reducing the resource consumption and increasing the energy ef-
ciency of buildings, we’re making Company properties protable over their entire lifecycles.
For example, our Green Building 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 certication 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 analy-
sis and design to the planning, construction, operation, renovation and even demolition phases –
our focus throughout new development projects is on resource conservation and efciency. 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-efciency heat recovery technology, the
building uses 28 percent less energy than its conventional counterparts.
With our exible 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.
Siemens Real Estate (SRE)
www.siemens.com/sre
We’re responsible for Siemens’ international real estate business –
managing, operating and optimizing the utilization of the Company’s
real estate holdings and supporting construction projects.