Pilot Projects
ProLogis has incorporated sustainable design features and technologies at a number of pilot projects around the world:
Anixter International warehouse Chicago, Illinois
A 460,000-square-foot facility completed in 2004. It incorporates multiple sustainable design features, including recycled building materials, skylights, energy-efficient lighting and low-maintenance landscaping.
ProLogis Park Chanteloup Paris, France
A 2.7-million-square-foot distribution park completed in 2005. It features one of France’s largest installations of photovoltaic solar panels. The park was recognized with a 2005 Logistics Innovation Award at Europe’s International Week of Transportation and Logistics conference.
LaCrosse Footwear warehouse Portland, Oregon
A 145,000-square-foot facility completed in 2005. The building houses both a distribution center and LaCrosse Footwear’s global headquarters. It was built with locally sourced and recycled construction materials and features high-efficiency lighting systems and oversized windows to allow for increased natural lighting.
ProLogis Park Penedes Barcelona, Spain
A 527,000-square-foot distribution center completed in 2006. The facility is the first industrial building to participate in Spain’s “solar farming” program. Solar panels on the building’s rooftop generate power that is sold back to the local utility for use in the local community.
ProLogis Parc Amagasaki Osaka, Japan
A 1.5-million-square-foot industrial park completed in 2006. It features two wind turbines that generate electrical power, a rainwater recycling system and pavement technology that absorbs carbon emissions from trucks and other motor vehicles.
ProLogis Park Sideway Stoke-on-Trent, UK
A distribution park being developed on a 64-acre reclaimed coal mine in the West Midlands, the heart of the UK’s thriving distribution market. It will feature a wide variety of environmental features and technologies, including solar panels, heat-absorbent walls, high-efficiency lighting and water systems, links to mass transit, and an Internet-based carpooling system for warehouse personnel.
Lighting Retrofit Program United States
In 2006, ProLogis established a U.S. “lighting alliance team” that includes members of its in-house construction management organization and representatives from a leading industrial lighting vendor and from a lighting design and project management firm. The team is tasked with creating a lighting retrofit and standardization program that can be launched on a global basis across ProLogis’ extensive portfolio of industrial properties.
Under the program, standard metal halide lighting systems are being replaced with new T5 and T8 fluorescent lights at select customer test sites. Suppliers estimate these lights can cut electricity use by as much as 75 percent. Although the initial investment is more expensive, T5 and T8 lights are also rust free, easy to clean, and dust- and moisture-resistant. In addition, they can enable customers to leverage cash rebates and other incentives offered by local utilities. Suppliers estimate that a customer can fully recoup its investment in a fluorescent lighting system after just two years.
Companies that have already installed these lighting systems at ProLogis facilities include Bunzl Distribution, LaCrosse Footwear, Mohawk Carpet and NYK.
Following the conclusion of the pilot program, ProLogis plans to make T5 and T8 lighting systems standard in all its new industrial facilities in the U.S.