The new five-story structure encompasses 280,000 square feet of office, conferencing and training space, designed to promote collaboration through open office concepts and shared work spaces. Deployment of the latest technologies helps in connecting internal and external employees, partners and customers.
Designed to accommodate a total of 800 employees, the world headquarters demonstrates intelligent design, implementation and management of unified systems and building architecture. During the design phase, energy modeling showed that LEED design process will provide an estimated annual energy savings of 30% to 35%. In addition, UPI enabled Connected Building design principles are expected to provide an estimated operational savings of $0.63 per square feet.
The UPI-based elements of the building design include: a smart data center, which showcases an intelligent infrastructure that features high-speed data transport network infrastructure; energy-efficient heating and cooling; data center virtualization, enabling a 15% reduction in data center power costs and 38% reduction in cooling costs; and connected building architecture, which bridges key business applications across the building enabling convergence of physical and logical systems onto a single network. Other UPI-based elements are the unique Unified Operation Center (UOC), which co-locates the world headquarters’ safety, security, network, and communications operations and enables close coordination and information sharing in a central location.
Sustainable and green features have also been incorporated into the design and construction process, with an intention to achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification such as application of light shelves with integrated window shades; installation of a water reclamation system; reclaimed redwood from water towers, used for architectural wood accents; and a green roof which protects the roof membrane from harsh weather and ultraviolet radiation. This system helps in insulating the building and minimizes heat gain.
