AEC SDL firm's sustainability certifications for their offices?

Both of Miller Hull’s offices (Seattle and San Diego) have achieved Living Building Petal Certification. Seattle went Materials Petal and San Diego made net positive energy and achieved all Petals except the Water Petal. We are tenants in both spaces. Chris Hellstern, AIA, LFA, LEED AP BD+C, CDT Living Building Challenge Services Director The Miller Hull Partnership, LLP 71 Columbia Street, 6th Floor Seattle, WA 98104 Main: 206-682-6837 Direct: 206-254-2010 www.millerhull.com On

The STO Building Group has 3 WELL Certified offices and 3 LEED offices. We've done an LBC petal project a few years ago for a client, but don't have one ourselves. I'm happy to share more about that experience if you'd find it helpful. Additionally, I'm happy to share with you some of our findings on perceptions of third-party certifications (p12) from clients and partners in our 2019 Survey on Sustainability, Wellness, and Resilience - https://indd.adobe.com/view/650505f7-4444-4c9b-b369-ae3bc8aa80ff

Arrowstreet’s office is in a commercial high rise. We did LEED and Fitwel. _______________________________________ Katherine Bubriski, AIA CPHC, LEED AP BD+C, Fitwel Ambassador Director of Sustainability & Building Performance 617.666.7006 Direct Arrowstreet 10 Post Office Square Suite 700N Boston MA 02109 _______________________________________ www.arrowstreet.com Follow us on Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn F

Hi Clark, While everyone is working from home, or living where they work, our Mithun Seattle office is currently undergoing renovation and we are going for a Living Building v4 Materials Petal. We won't have final certification until summer 2022. 

While these are not national green building certifications, this might fit into an "other" category for local business certifications. Our San Francisco office has a Green Business certification from the SF Environment Green Business Program and our Los Angeles office is also recognized as a Green Business in the City of Los Angeles Green Business program at a Tier 2 Innovator Level.

In all three locations we have tenant leases. We looked at Fitwel, believe we were at 2-star level, in guiding a refresh of the San Francisco office space, though given the small number of years left on the lease it did not make sense at that time to certify.  Thanks,
Mike Fowler
Senior Associate, Sustainability Integration Leader
MITHUN
 

Hi, Good Question: Stantec Boston in LEED-CI Platinum (2011) and Fitwel 2-stars (2017). This is typical of our larger/"flagship" offices: Toronto, Edmonton (HQ), and Denver. Best, Blake Jackson, AIA, LEED/WELL Faculty, Fitwel Ambassador, CPHC Sustainability Design Leader - US North East, Senior Associate Stantec Architecture 311 Summer Street Boston, MA 02210-1723 O: (617) 234-3194 M: (706) 280-3957 Blake.Jackson@stantec.com [Stantec] The content of this email is the confidential property of Stantec and should not be copied, modified, retransmitted, or used for any purpose except with Stantec's written authorization. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete all copies and notify us immediately. ? Please consider the environment before printing this email.

Mahlum Portland office - LBC v3.1 petal certified this 2020 year / 7,500sf TI project / ~50 staff / Materials, Place, Equity & Beauty petals
Originally we looked at both LEED-CI and WELL (v2 pilot) at the time, but settled on LBC. Lots of lessons learned from our process (schedule, budget, etc) - please reach out directly

SOM's standard is:

• LEED Gold for all office renovations
• WELL Gold, with a stretch goal to WELL Platinum
  • Several of our US offices are currently working towards renewing their LEED/WELL certifications with recent renovations
• Our Shanghai office has achieved RESET certification
• We recently signed up for the World Green Building Councils Advancing Net Zero Goal which targets Net Zero by 2030 for your organizations entire operations
• Each office may engage in local programs to advance sustainability with their local Mayors offices and these initiatives vary on a case by case basis.
  
  Best,
  Arathi ARATHI GOWDA, AIA, AICP, LEED AP
  ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL
  224 SOUTH MICHIGAN AVENUE
  CHICAGO, IL 60604
  T  (312) 360-4113
  M (312) 479-4581
  ARATHI.GOWDA@SOM.COM

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All DLR Group offices have achieved Reset Certification as part of our Healthy Spaces initiative. I am happy to connect our Air Quality guru to the group to discuss more in regards to Air Quality efforts. Everyone has access to the air monitoring data for their office which has prompted a lot of observations around the group from impacts of construction in the building (not even on our floor); how to mitigate issues; impacts of forest fires and more. It has been a tool for all our offices to work on improving IAQ and when there has been a spike beyond our control we used it as a tool to send staff home. Other offices have received LEED or pursued other certifications such as WELL but this initiative has been our most successful to gain awareness and adoption to achieve optimal IAQ. Lindsey Sent from my iPhone

Love this topic and seeing what everyone has. I need to do a more full census of DPR as I suspect we have a few that are LEED certified to some level that aren't included below. Off the top of my head, DPR's offices in:

• Austin - LEED, WELL, Net-Zero Energy
• Nashville - WELL
• Phoenix - LEED, Net Zero Energy
• Redwood City, CA - LEED
• Sacramento - LEED, WELL, Net Zero Energy
• San Diego - LEED, Net Zero Energy
• San Francisco - LEED, Net Zero Energy
• Washington, DC (Reston, VA) - LEED, WELL, fitwel, targeting Net Zero Energy

We've built two petal-certified projects, though not for any of our own spaces (yet!).

Elkus Manfredi Architects office in Boston is LEED CI Silver. We moved into a space almost as it was over 6 years ago and made very few changes or updates, it was challenging to get the Silver, there was not a lot of reward for doing a minimal renovation and simple fit-out. We are just starting to informally investigate WELL and fitwel since we have made recent updates due to the pandemic. Kristen Fritsch AIA LEED AP BD+C WELL AP Sustainability Coordinator ELKUS MANFREDI ARCHITECTS [tel] 617.695.7954 [email] kfritsch@elkus-manfredi.com WFH# 206-356-5296

Jacobs has pursued LEED certification for many of our offices where appropriate – most are in the Gold level and some at Platinum. We have not yet pursued LBC or Petal certification, but our Boston Office recently achieved LEED Gold, WELL Gold and Fitwel 3 star. For a few of our offices that are not doing extensive renovation (such as Philly), we pursued Fitwel since it it focuses less on design and more on process and operations. Jonathan Weiss, AIA, LEED Fellow, WELL AP, Fitwel (he/him) | Director of Sustainability| Jacobs | People & Places Solutions O:+1.215.446.3360 | M:+1.215.620.7322 | jonathan.weiss@jacobs.com Working from home. Please use mobile phone or email in lieu of office phone. Stay safe. F

Hi Clark. McGough Headquarters is currently seeking WELLv2 Platinum. Jennifer Kruse, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP | Director of Sustainability 651.634.4680 office | 651.706.3340 cell 2737 Fairview Avenue North, St. Paul, MN 55113 www.mcgough.com [Description: cid:01C454C9-B88E-497F-9611-83F51504DCC4]

Very interesting overview and I added our firms certifications to your list. Out of curiosity, do any of these certifications focus exclusively on carbon neutral design, construction, and operations? Seems like there is room for a certification that focuses on that metric only. E- Eric Carbonnier, PhD, AIA, LEED AP BD+C Associate Principal / Vice President of Sustainability HMC Architects Partner / Serve / Design / Enrich 633 W. 5th Street / 3rd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90071 C 626 318 5158 We design solutions. > www.hmcarchitects.com

FXCollaborative’s current pursuit of LEED CI Platinum is now on the list. I’m also interested to hear what frameworks folks use to seek carbon neutral office operations (energy use, travel, waste, etc.). Dan Piselli, AIA, LEED AP, CPHD Director of Sustainability, Senior Associate FXCollaborative Architects LLP D +1 646 292 8137 | T +1 212 627 1700 Fro

This is a really interesting list being compiled. Entegrity's main headquarters office is LEED Platium, LEED Zero Energy and ILFI Zero Energy. We are currently constructing a new mixed-use office building and will be pursuing ILFI Zero Energy for the whole building, Fitwel Residential + LEED CI on the commercial spaces.  I'll add this to the google sheet you started.    Meredith Hendricks

Great thread! I'm adding EXP's information directly to the spreadsheet.

TLC's offices have achieved, or are pursuing, the following certifications: -Orlando: LEED ID+C v4 Silver, WELL Certified
-Miami: LEED v4 ID+C Certified
-Melbourne, FL: LEED v4 ID+C Silver
-Jacksonville: LEED v4 ID+C Silver
-Nashville: LEED v2 ID+C Certified

Hi Clark! Weber Thompson's previous space was LEED v2.2 CI Platinum. Our new space is pursuing LBC v3.0 Petal Certification (Materials) *note: this is along with other tenants and core & shell building, not a commercial TI certification per se. The project is completed, we're just wrapping up documentation and submitting to ILFI. The new space is also pursuing Fitwel 3-star - documentation in progress.