1. Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus Katie Ross Sustainability - Real Estate & Facilities December 5, 2017
Hello everyone, and welcome to Microsoft's Silicon Valley campus.
First I'd like to thank Sustainable Silicon Valley for hosting this important event 4 years running.
My name is Katie Ross and I lead sustainability for Microsoft's real estate portfolio.
As you probably noticed when you walked into campus today, we’re undergoing some exciting new changes.
Today we're going to walk through some of my favorite aspects of our new campus design.

2. Our sustainability mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet with the tools to thrive in a resource constrained world.
At Microsoft, we believe climate change is an urgent problem that demands a global response from all industries.
Technology plays a key role in this – and holds a great promise towards addressing our pressing environmental challenges
But as Microsoft, as well as many of us in the room, contribute towards creating a sustainable future, we also realize that our growing operations are creating new demands on the planet

3. Our focus areas Transparency Powered by data Investment in R&D
We focus on 5 key areas in which we have made both operational and societal commitments – energy, carbon, water, ecosystems, and circular economy
Microsoft has been a carbon neutral company since 2012, with the help of our internal price on carbon. A few weeks ago we pledged to reduce our carbon emissions by 75% by 2030, against a 2030 baseline
In real estate, we have achieved a 20% energy reduction across our global real estate portfolio with the help of our energy smart building program.
We achieved a zero waste certification for our Puget sound campus, diverting over 90% of our waste from landfill – which is no small feat for a campus with over 50,000 employees working each day.
We recently completed a special contract with Puget Sound electric to purchase 100% carbon free energy from the market to power most of our Puget sound operations – roughly 65% of our global real estate energy usage
Transparency
Powered by data
Investment in R&D
Partnership

4. Microsoft’s Silicon Valley Campus
Today I want to introduce some of the solutions we are deploying at our new silicon valley campus.
When we started design, we envirisoned a place that would truly embrace the local habitat as part of the built environement
We wanted toc reate a place for employees to collaborate, support our local community, and enhance and protect our environment.
We focused on regionally relevant solutions that leveraged on our on site resources to the greatest extent possible, focusing on the health and wellbeing of our employees as well as the local ecosystem.
You’ll see in this rendering the total transformation of the sea of concreate and parking lot we have today to a site that bends into the local habitat, abutting stevens creek

5. Before we talk about water, I wanted to highlight a few key design features that speak to how we thought about leveraging our resources on site – really driving at regionally relevant solutions.
Here you’ll see the future campus quad. Our main structural component is CLT of Cross laminate timber. What this product allows us to do is dramatically reduce was as part of the construction process, materials by leaving the timber beams unfinished, while utilizing a low cabon, FSC certified product that is srouced in the PNW. We believe we’ll be one of the largest CLT installations in the US.
We are also increasing our onsite solar capacity with solar panels covering some of our roof structures as you see here

6. Another key feature on campus is access to daylight, natural ventilation and outdoor spaces – all valuable assets on our existing campus.
Here you’ll see the courtyard design – a 2 story structure with every neighborhood having access to a private courtyard

7. That can be access from the roof – employees will enter campus via the green roof and drop down into their neighbodhood courtyard and workspace

8. Water Scarcity
Increased demand for goods and services
50% more people by 2050
Population growth,
urbanization, growing
middle class
Demand exceeding
supply by
Within two decades
40%
Unprecedented demand
on the world’s water supply
4 billion more consumers in cities by 2025
70% Agriculture
20% Industry
10% Domestic
There is an unprecedented demand on the world’s limited fresh water supply.
But water is the real reason we’re all here today.
As we all know, water scarcity is a major concern globally. The UN projects global water demand to outstrip supplyby 40% by California frequently faces water scarcity and in Slicon Valley we are projected to grow in population by 25% by 2035
With these challenges ahead, and increasingly uncertainty about the availability of water due to the impacts of climate change, the only thing that really made sense was to reuse the water more than once.
We wanted to be apart of the solution and demonstrate that a project of the scale can work

9. Water Balance Our campus will be a Net Zero non-potable water campus.
We will collect grey and black water on site and reuse it, ensuring that the only municipal water used for our campus of over 2000 employees and 634,000 SF is for potable uses
We took a water balance approach to this project, and first thought about how much water we can capture, store and treat on campus, and from there worked backwards to establish a water budget for the project. This was a new way to look at the project and took constant check ins and some compromises.
Early on in the project, we had set the north star of net zero water and were in a meeting with our landscape architect about their designs. Some of the recommended plantings had changed since we last spoke with them and we realized they were over their budget by hundreds of gallons – which would be like pursuing a NZE building and determining your plug loads were over by 25%. We had to work with them, our architect, and some of our internal folks to change our mindset about the look of campus - we would have to compromise on the 365 days ‘ lush look’ of campus in order to have the project meet its budget

10. Integrated Water Management Flow Diagram
Potable comes from city and used for drinking, sinks and showers
Rainwater falls on grey roofs and PV and goes to treatment and storage for grey water reuse
Waste water leaves the building and enters the plant for treatment. It is blended with the treated grey water and sent back into the building as grey water and to the landscaping for irrigation.
Stormwater that falls on our green roofs and on the landscaped site will either be retained on roofs/landscaping for irrigation or through biotreatment, retention ponds and will support the revitalization of stevens creek
The building will be tied to the municipal purple pipe supply as well as the municipal sewer and municipal stormwater drain as backup
The system also is designed to support treatment to potable water however we will not be pursuing that at thistime

11. Education was a key consideration when we thought about how to tell the story – how would we take this complicated solution to get the average person to understand it. I would hazard to say that most don’t think about the fact that we flush drinking water down the toilet in the US. I was on a call with our bejing team the other day who asked if we water our lawns in the US with bottled water – a concept that sounds outrageous but is basically what we do in much of the US.
To normalize this type of design and treat water like the precious resource it is, we have to change the mindset around water reuse to make it an imperative

12. Stevens Creek Restoration
A design element that went hand and hand with our net zero design strategy was the restoration of our campus back to its intended habitat.
We worked with ecologists to mimic the riparian landscape – reinstating the oak woodlands, meadows, and wetlands that were once here before development. The local habitat really looks like it just folds over our campus, providing a place not only for our employees to enjoy the natural environment but also native plants and animals.
Zeroscaping is often the most recommended strategy to reduce water, but it negates the ecosystems services of the site. It was important to us to avoid optimizing for one resource while compromising another.

13. Our campus will have 3 time more landscaping, more employees, and about 25% more square footage while reducing our current potable water consumption in half.
We are incredibly proud to be building a net zero water campus and thrilled to be part of such a wonderful community of tech companies, NGO and municipalities are leading the charge to invest in these solutions

14. Thank you Learn more at news.Microsoft/modern-campus
I want to thank WRNS, Sherwood, NSU, state of California, division of drinking water, the city of Mountain View, SSV - San Francisco PUC for spearheading this at their office and providing as a test case
If you want to learn more, go to news.Microsoft.com/modern-campus
Learn more at news.Microsoft/modern-campus

15. Questions Katie Ross karo@microsoft.com
Questions
What were challenges
You have an aspirational goal that you start at the beginning of the project, and when you go from SDs to CDs there are a number of changes that happen, as you try to get more creative with design, VE, understand water supply, it was a challenge to circle back and balance this aspirational goal that we set at the beginning. How do you balance the seasonality
We worked closely with the landscape architect
Balancing the storage - get enough to
Another challenge is going to be operating the system going forward now that we've built it
Permitting
We are working with the city and the state, department of health. There are a number of projects who are leading the way that are helping like SF PUC and Stanford. Many municipalities are setting slightly different approaches . Our system is a plant that is governed under title 24 in terms of water treatment and delivery . We've submitted our permit documents, our next step is a meeting with all entities to agree on some outstanding permit regulations
City could permit our project to go forward, even if the state doesn’t allow us to use
There is a number of presentations today that will do a deeper
To meet C3, we're not using
What's the payback
35,000 gallons a day - systems start to make sense economically when you look at a 10year payback once you start getting at about 100,000 gallons a day, it starts making sense from a financing level. And we're seeing that come down.
How does this support the local community
We're looking out and trying to safeguard the potable water system for
District scale is an important level to be operating at
Circular economy, reusing on site as much as possible
Katie Ross
linkedin.com/in/katie-ross-microsoft/

16. Appendix

17. How it Works

18. Transform our own operations
Transform our customers’ operations
Standing up for strong public policies
Building a sustainable future

19. On Site Renewables