February 2009
The Turner Construction Company has recently reported a completion of more than $3 billion of green construction projects in 2008. Further to that, the firm’s sustainable construction work has grown to 40 per cent of its backlog.
Turner's handles a wide portfolio of building types including those in the education, commercial, healthcare and aviation segments.
To date, it has completed 80 projects that have been LEED Certified by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) with an additional 130 projects, LEED Registered. These projects employ strategies to improve a building's performance in five key areas of human and environmental health: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection and indoor environmental quality.
Turner expects client interest in green buildings to continue.
In a survey of commercial real estate executives, Turner found that they viewed green buildings as having lower energy, operating and lifecycle costs, higher building values, asking rents and occupancy rates.
In 2008, Engineering News-Record recognized Turner as having the most LEED Accredited Professionals on staff among construction management firms and as the largest builder of LEED Certified projects in the United States.
Turner has also taken steps to green its operations by adding more high mileage and hybrid vehicles to its fleet, diverted over 75,000 tons of waste on its jobsites in 2008 and through greening its own offices as they are renovated.
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