HSBC Bank Egypt Global Service Centre Education Plan
LEADERSHIP IN ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN Sustainable Sites Choosing a building's site and managing that site during construction are important considerations for a project’s sustainability. The Sustainable Sites category discourages development on previously undeveloped land; minimizes a building's impact on ecosystems and waterways; encourages regionally appropriate landscaping; rewards smart transportation choices; controls stormwater runoff; and reduces erosion, light pollution, heat island effect and construction-related pollution.
CREDIT 6.1 STORMWATER MANAGEMENT PLAN
Indoor Environmental Quality
Energy & Atmosphere
Its estimated that we spend about 90% of our day indoors, where the air quality can be significantly worse than outside. The Indoor Environmental Quality credit category promotes strategies that can improve indoor air as well as providing access to natural daylight and views and improving acoustics.
The Energy & Atmosphere category encourages a wide variety of energy strategies: commissioning; energy use monitoring; efficient design and construction; efficient appliances, systems and lighting; the use of renewable and clean sources of energy, generated on-site or off-site; and other innovative strategies.
CREDIT 5.2 20% OF MATERIALS ARE MANUFACTURED REGIONALLY
CREDIT 3.1 WATER USE REDUCTION
CREDIT 4.3 FUEL EFFICIENT VEHICLE PARKING
CREDIT 4 ENHANCED REFRIGERANT MANAGEMENT Buildings are major users of our potable water supply. The goal of the Water Efficiency credit category is to encourage smarter use of water, inside and out. Water reduction is typically achieved through more efficient appliances, fixtures and fittings inside and water-wise landscaping outside.
CREDIT 4 LOW EMISSIONS OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS IN MATERIALS
Innovation & Design Process
Materials & Resources
Water Efficiency
CREDIT 1.2 TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT PLAN
During both the construction and operations phases, buildings generate a lot of waste and use a lot of materials and resources. This credit category encourages the selection of sustainably grown, harvested, produced and transported products and materials. It promotes the reduction of waste as well as reuse and recycling, and it takes into account the reduction of waste at a product’s source.
The Innovation in Design credit category provides bonus points for projects that use new and innovative technologies and strategies to improve a building’s performance well beyond what is required by other LEED credits or in green building considerations that are not specifically addressed elsewhere in LEED. This credit category also rewards projects for including a LEED Accredited Professional on the team to ensure a holistic, integrated approach to the design and construction phase.
HSBC has implemented strategies such as video conferencing and telecommuting to help lessen travel impacts. Local travel strategies are important and the Egypt Global Service Centre is one of the early adopters of low carbon transportation policies and practices. Priority parking will be given to vehicles that are used for carpooling. Parking capacity at the Egypt GSC can accommodate one vehicle for every four employees, so carpooling is both convenient and provides the greatest opportunity for reducing vehicle trips to the facility. The Egypt GSC has over 50 racks for secured bicycle parking. Bicycling does not contribute carbon or other pollutants to the atmosphere and can contribute to physical fitness. To encourage further use, HSBC has purchased bicycles that will be available for employees to travel to amenities within Smart Village and to other nearby destinations.
Social Investment HSBC recognizes that a thriving society is critical to our future success as a bank. That is why we focus our community investment activity on education and the environment—the building blocks for strong communities. The HSBC together with the Foundation for Environmental Education, created the Eco-Schools Climate Initiative as a programme to encourage students, staff and parents to assess the institution’s infrastructure and curriculum. Trained HSBC volunteers will support the school in reducing carbon emissions and adapting to climate change. More than 1 billion people, or about 30% of the world’s urban population, live in slums among which 15 millions are living in 1221 informal areas in Egypt. Many of these slums are located on private land lacking basic infrastructure such as sewer and water or in areas exposed to high risk phenomena such as floods. HSBC Egypt (HBEG) has created an initiative to use investment strategy, education and business support to improve the fundamental conditions that lead to the physical and social effects of urban poverty.
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Resource Efficiency
Transportation
Protection of the earth’s natural life-supporting systems is fundamental to HSBC’s sustainability programme. Our impact arises directly through our own operation and indirectly through the business of our customers. The Egypt GSC will use over 40% less water than similar office buildings with water conservation technologies and practices. Many of the technologies such as low flow water closets, urinals, lavatory faucets, kitchen faucets, and showers can are simple enough to be implemented at home as well as at work!
Posters 16” x 22” (3) 140” x 46” (1)
The Egypt GSC has a dedicated area for the storage and collection of materials for recycling. Chutes located on all floors are used to collect all materials in the basement. Visitors and employees are encouraged to recycle all paper, corrugated cardboard, glass, plastic and metal. The Egypt GSC will use smart technologies to help monitor and control energy use throughout the building. Meters will record electrical use and a centralized control system will determine usage trends and help building managers increase the efficiency of the building systems.
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