WESCO and the Pittsburgh Green
Workplace Challenge
Strategies for Success, Challenges, and Opportunities
Billy Grayson, Director, Corporate Sustainability
June, 2012
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WESCO Profile
Sustainability at WESCO
GWC Accomplishments and Success
Challenges (and strategies to overcome them.)
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WESCO Profile
Vision
Global Leader of
Supply Chain Solutions
that consistently delivers
Superior Customer Value
and Shareholder Returns
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• Fortune 500 Company (NYSE: WCC)
− Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA
− Approximately 7,300 employees
− Approximately 400 locations in 14 countries
• A leading provider of electrical, industrial, and communications
MRO and OEM products, construction materials and advanced
supply chain management and logistics services
− Serving over 65,000 customers
− Partnering with 18,000 suppliers
− Over 1 million different products shipped annually
• International operations and global sourcing capabilities
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Known for the best customer service
and the best people
Customer
Value Proposition
Providing customers the
products and supply chain
services they need for
• MRO
• OEM
• Capital Projects
…an industry leader
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WESCO’s Sustainability Strategy
Reduce our impact…
−Reduce energy consumption in
our buildings
−Pursue ENERGY STAR and LEEDcertified buildings.
−Reduce fleet fuel use
−Reduce waste/improve recycling
−Improve green procurement and
packaging policies
−Improve our green
communications and help our
suppliers to do the same
…And help customers reduce their impact
− Train WESCO sales staff to help customers
understand WESCO’s sustainability solution set
− Develop case studies from WESCO projects to
show cost-effective energy efficiency and renewable
energy opportunities.
− Improve sustainability communications through
WESCO website and product catalogs
− Respond to sustainability questionnaires from
customers
− Deliver GHG inventory and annual sustainability
report.
− Speak at and attend key sustainability trade
shows and conferences.
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Sustainability progress – 2011-2012
• POLICIES AND PLANS
− Environmental inventory completed January, 2011
− Sustainability plan finalized in March 2011
− Green building, green lease, and sustainable procurement policies finalized October, 2011
• REDUCING OUR IMPACT
− Lighting and control upgrades made to 32 branches; reduced energy consumption by 20%/facility;
equates to a $350,000 annual electricity costs savings.
− On-site renewable energy projects in Honolulu and Phoenix. Green Power Purchase in Gaithersburg
− 40% reduction in waste, primarily through aggressive packaging reuse program
• IMPROVING OUR PRODUCTS
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Green Communication Guidance distributed to all suppliers
Solar Guide published Summer 2011
Wesco.com/sustainability launched November 2011
MaxCell: completes greenhouse gas lifecycle analysis, earns Carbon Trust label
• SUPPORTING OUR CUSTOMERS
− Responded to 32 customer questionnaires, 18 RFPs with sustainability reporting and product
solutions
− Increased “sustainability business” in 2011 – renewables and LED lighting grew 150%
− Driving reductions – WESCO products reduced customer GHG emissions by an estimated 150,000
metric tons
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WESCO Sustainability – Supporting our
Customers
• “Walk the Talk”: branches become showrooms for
WESCO technology, signage, case studies, and sales
trainings complement energy-saving investments.
• Sustainability strategy and technical support: WESCO
offers energy opportunity assessments, lighting design,
commissioning, and power management strategy support.
• Sustainability-related products: Three sustainability
catalogs, along with product case studies and testimonials.
• Sustainability and Value Creation: Supporting WESCO’s
largest clients with hands-on technical support,
guaranteed energy and cost savings, and long-term
sustainability strategy.
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WESCO and the GWC - success
•Energy and water tracking.
− New Ecova system helps drive ENERGY STAR benchmarking.
− Metering + estimation helps WESCO Pittsburgh understand its impact.
• Establishing formal environmental policies improves consistency in
procurement, recycling, IT.
• Employee engagement events
build awareness, launch
“green teams.”
• Energy audits uncover
opportunities, lead to
proposals (Warrendale)
and action (Pittsburgh)
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GWC challenges
• WESCO Pittsburgh – a fully-serviced lease makes the following a challenge:
− Calculating our baseline environmental performance
− payback for sustainability investments
• WESCO Warrendale – suburban campus makes travel-related items a challenge.
• WESCO facilities looking to overcome these challenges by:
− Voluntary mapping of commutes to present carpool options
− Using meters and estimates to refine baselines and model savings
− Continuing to identify opportunities through system commissioning
− Working with our landlord on “win-win” solutions that will help the whole
building be more sustainable
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Thanks!
Billy Grayson
Director, Corporate Sustainability
412-454-2424 (w)
202-427-3094 (cell)
bgrayson@wesco.com
More on WESCO’s Sustainability Initiative is available at
www.wesco.com/sustainability.
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WESCO’s Environmental Footprint
ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT
•Greenhouse gas emissions: 47,484 metric tons, down 3.6% from 2010.
•Building energy intensity: 44,150 BTU/sqft, down 2.3% from 2010.
•Building electricity consumption: 5.95 kWh/sqft, down 6.1% from 2010.
•Waste generation: 8,156 tons, down 11% from 2010 and down 40% from 2009.
•Fleet Fuel use: 985,604 gallons, down 1.7% from 2010 and down 5% from 2009.
CORPORATE FOOTPRINT
•Building square footage: 9.4 million sqft, up 4.4% from 2010.
•# vehicles: 557, down 2% from 2010 and down 4% from 2009
•Total revenues: $6.13 billion, up 21% from 2010 and up 30.5% from 2009.
•Energy and environmental costs: $11.7 million, up 6.2% from 2010.
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LEED Charlotte
• Achieved LEED Gold certification in
2011
• Generated strong local press accolades
• Strengthened WESCO sustainability
relationships with Cooper, Hubbell,
Philips.
• Helped make WESCO Charlotte Open
house one of the greenest and most
successful events of 2011
• Helped inform future sustainability
improvements across WESCO’s
facilities
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