Solutions
GreenIT combines elements of Design, Management, and Education into unique integrated solutions for clients.
IT Sustainability Master Program
 The GreenIT 360x365™ engagement is a fully customized system for optimizing environmental performance of IT within and for an organization… from Desktop to Datacenter. Benchmarks are established on base metrics for energy consumption, material use, solid waste, e-waste, and universal waste. Projects and tasks are identified, quantified and rank-ordered for implementation. Cross-organizational linkages are established to identify high-value opportunities across the enterprise over time. Continuous-improvement management and reporting systems are developed to measure progress on achievement of specific objectives, including carbon-footprint reductions.
IT System Design
 GreenIT provides IT system design solutions that minimize materials used, reduce waste, and improve energy efficiency while reducing TCO and improving performance. The GreenIT ER3 PrincipleTM is applied to every stage of the design, specification, and procurement process. Simplification through elimination of unnecessary or overbuilt design elements allows for lower TCO and simplified operations as well as a reduced eco-footprint.
IT Infrastructure System Design
 Network cabling systems are the no-man’s land of IT system development --- sometimes the responsibility of IT, sometimes Facilities or Electrical Engineers, and sometimes nobody until very late in the workplace design process. New techniques and new technologies allow for significant reductions in first-cost, on-going management costs, and reductions in non-renewable resource consumption for voice/data cable infrastructure; results that can only be achieved through early engagement and collaborative design processes.
Integrated Facilities Design
Typically IT system designers, if involved at all, are brought into the process for creating a new building or workplace at a point shortly before occupancy. Integrating IT into the design process from the earliest conceptual stages can produce dramatic benefits for space utilization, facility operating costs, employee productivity and satisfaction, and environmental sustainability. GreenIT projects have demonstrated that office electrical load and IT infrastructure materials can be reduced by 50% or more. When IT systems are properly designed to support alternative workstyle programs, space can be used more efficiently and be far more adaptable to changing demands over time.
Educational Programs
IT product manufacturers are creating an increasing store of educational resources around the environmental benefits of their products, much of it focused on data centers and personal computers. Governments have established environmental requirements and standards for IT. Not-for-profit organizations have developed education campaigns on IT environmental issues. GreenIT offers a broad-based, integrated approach to using those resources and the growing body of scientific research for employee-education programs, workshops, and conferences.
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP) for IT Systems
EPP requirements for IT products are being incorporated into major purchasing programs in both the public and private sectors. The EPEAT and Energy Star standards have been widely adopted for government purchases at the Federal, State, and Local government levels. Additional requirements around packaging waste, end-of-life management, Design for Environment and other environmental attributes are appearing as well. GreenIT offers guidance for both the development of RFP requirements and to companies responding to new requirements.
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