Legrand

Background

Legrand is the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures where people live and work. The company enables the flow and control of power and data through homes, offices and buildings with innovative products you’ll find both on and behind the walls-from light switches, electrical outlets and energy-saving dimmers & sensors, to digital lighting management, cable management solutions and advanced data rack systems,. Everywhere electricity and information is flowing, Legrand is there to secure the connections from beginning to end. With more than half of its business in the commercial and industrial sectors, Legrand achieved sales of more than $5 billion in 2010. 31,000 employees drive design innovation everyday on 170,000 products divided into 95 categories worldwide. Legrand has demonstrated its commitment to sustainability through its corporate-wide adoption of ISO 14001 and by becoming an industry leader in energy plant and building operations.

As a partner of the Better Buildings Challenge, Legrand will improve its energy intensity through a combination of technology and behavioral change. Through energy audits at manufacturing, warehouse, and office facilities, Legrand has identified energy efficiency opportunities with payback periods spanning immediate results to six years. Legrand has committed its West Hartford, CT North American headquarters as a demonstration site for the benefits of sub-metering to identify the broadest range of energy saving opportunities and will extend its efforts to install sub-meters at all of its facilities, including offices, manufacturing plants, and warehouses.