by Rebecca Walker — June 25, 2010—Panduit Corporation has opened its new World Headquarters building in Tinley Park, Illinois. The building, which incorporates Panduit’s Unified Physical Infrastructure (UPI) approach, represents a dramatic leap forward in collaboration, smart and healthy work environments, energy reduction, and cost savings, says Panduit.
The five-story building comprises 280,000 square feet of office, conferencing and training space, enabling collaboration through open office concepts, shared work spaces, and the deployment of the latest technologies to connect internal and external employees, partners and customers, says the company. The space will initially serve 550 employees and is able to accommodate a total of 800. The company in total now employs over 4,000 people globally.
The world headquarters is an important step in the evolution of Panduit, providing a proof of concept for UPI that demonstrates intelligent design, implementation and management of unified systems and building architecture. During the design phase, energy modeling showed that the LEED Design process will provide an estimated annual energy savings of 30 percent to 35 percent. In addition, UPI enabled Connected Building design principles will provide estimated operational savings of $0.63 per square foot.
The building serves as a living case study of Panduit’s Unified Physical Infrastructure (UPI) approach, which gives enterprises the capabilities to connect, manage and automate communications, computing, power, control and security systems for a smarter business foundation.
For more information, see the Panduit Web site.
