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As a growing company and leader in its industries, CBORD^® is committed to reducing its effect on the environment. Please review our press release to learn the steps we’re enacting as part of our 29th Annual User Group Conference.

In addition to the efforts outlined in the press release, CBORD aims to make its everyday operations more environmentally friendly. Among the ways CBORD strives to reduce its effect on the environment are the following:

• Between 2003 and 2006, CBORD revamped its literature to reduce paper waste by more than 50 percent.
• To further reduce wasted paper, CBORD made major investments in its web design to provide all marketing collateral and CBORD publications, such as release notes and monthly customer newsletters, electronically (visit cbord.com's home page).
• Each year, CBORD invests thousands of dollars to develop web-based training programs, including free eSeminars, webinars, CBORD Integrated Client Education, and personalized distance training, which save the customers who benefit from these programs hundreds of thousands of dollars in travel costs, which translates into significant emissions reductions.
• CBORD encourages customers to make use of personal distance training whenever possible to reduce customer costs and related emissions.
• CBORD provides recycling bins and encourages employees to utilize such receptacles.
• CBORD encourages customers to accept updates and patches electronically as opposed to using CD media. This reduces costs customers pay for shipping and provides related environmental benefits by eliminating the need for thousands of CDs and the associated environmental impacts of shipping them across the United States and overseas.
• To reduce transportation emissions, CBORD supports employee telecommuting and utilizes web-based conferencing among its various offices throughout the United States.
• CBORD systems support 75,000 users daily on a Software as a Service model. Customers who access systems via the web tend to replace hardware less frequently, do not require local servers, and do not require CD media to update systems. The benefits accrue to both the environment and to customers’ bottom lines.
• CBORD uses central Exchange Servers and related software to manage and share internal documents, and all critical documents are scanned; these efforts greatly reduce paper waste and ensure that CBORD staff can access necessary documents when customers call with questions.
• Over the past four years, CBORD invested tens of thousands of dollars to trim down the environmental impact of the fifty or more trade shows it attends annually. CBORD reduced paper waste by 50 percent and minimized the environmental impact of shipping booths by reducing booth weight by more than 75 percent.
• CBORD’s corporate headquarters’ HVAC system runs Insight Energy Management Software supported by Siemens Building Technologies. This software controls forty different heating and cooling zones throughout the facility. The energy-saving benefits with this setup include the following:
  • The facility temperatures are adjusted in a customized fashion, helping meet employees’ needs and reducing unwanted heating/cooling, thereby saving energy.
  • The Insight software has a night-mode setting, which reduces the heating or cooling to a programmed temperature while the building is unoccupied and brings the facility back up to occupied temperature settings via programmed times.
• CBORD staff members ensure lights are turned off in restrooms, offices, and other areas when not in use.
• CBORD uses fluorescent lighting in each of its corporate offices.