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“ Our teams got creative and asked:‘ What if we created a real-world testing ground for some of the best sustainability initiatives, in one place?’”
Kara Hurst, CSO, Amazon
Scaling innovations across existing assets The insights gained from the Indiana warehouse are not just for future constructions. The project is intended to generate a catalogue of proven, retrofittable solutions for Amazon’ s existing portfolio of buildings.
This makes the facility a strategic tool for decarbonising a vast real estate footprint.
“ While we view DII5 as a strategic investment in designing and implementing sustainability strategies in our future buildings design, it will also give us an opportunity to test which of these initiatives can be scaled across our existing buildings portfolio,” says Daniel.
This project follows other Amazon developments that have used mass timber, including its HQ2 buildings in Arlington, Virginia.
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