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CORE is passionate about building • Emphasizing continuous eco-
sustainable, energy efficient buildings friendly practices
that give our clients long-term cost • Promoting reduce, reuse, and
savings. We have built over 100 LEED recycling practices 200+
certified projects, over 200 energy • Communicating about sustainability
projects, and we were ranked #52 in and green building practices with
Green Building Construction Firms by employees, business partners, and Energy Projects
Business Design + Construction. clients

For the past two decades, CORE has CORE seeks to use products that restrict
been helping our clients achieve their damage to the environment. On an
LEED certification and green building ongoing basis, we refine, reduce, and
goals. Our LEED experience dates back eliminate products that are proven to be 100+
to 2000, and includes projects in a environmentally unfriendly or unhealthy
variety of sectors, including municipal, for our employees, our community, and
K-12, higher education, commercial, our planet. leed Projects
multifamily, mixed-use, and federal.
Green building practices have been Here are some examples of how CORE
integrated into CORE’s Operational has reduced, reused, and recycled:
Excellence standards to ensure that our
clients receive the very best options • Utilizing low flow water devices in
for cost- and energy-efficient building restrooms and kitchen areas
materials. For every project, we focus • Using motion sensor shut off for #52
our efforts on reduced energy and water lights throughout our offices
use, a healthy indoor environment, and • Replacing disposable cups,
smart material selection, utensils, and flatware with green building
reusable materials and containers
At CORE, we believe the client decides. • Using rechargeable batteries
We strive to provide the highest level • Using a variety of online and firm
of client services possible, especially as digital tools to promote paperless
it pertains to continuously improving workflow in our offices and on our
our sustainable building practices. By job sites
drawing upon our team’s expertise in • Encouraging double-sided printing
sustainable construction, we are able and copying
to build state-of-the-art green buildings • Encouraging more electronic
that exceed our clients’ expectations. alternatives to printing
Whether a client decides to pursue • Using recycling receptacles for
LEED certification or simply integrate paper, glass, aluminum, and
green building practices, CORE is here corrugated cardboard
to meet, and exceed, all sustainability
needs. Our employees support CORE’s
sustainability mission through
REDUCE, REUSE, AND RECYCLE grassroots efforts to recycle aluminum
CORE is dedicated to environmental cans, plastic bottles, office paper, and
improvements that foster a sustainable equipment. CORE’s treatment and
future, lead to social and economic disposal of special items, materials,
advancements in the community, and and waste is carried out and in line
create a clean and safe place to work. with local laws and regulations, and
conducted in a way that causes the least
At CORE, our business practices and harm to the environment.
internal policies include:

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