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Panel: LEED Is Future of Industrial Building

NEWARK-A panel at RealShare Industrial East's session Smart Growth vs. Skepticism addresses the necessity and challenges of building green industrial spaces.

By Brianne Harrison | Updated on June 09, 2008

NEWARK-Although green building is currently a popular movement, the industrial sector has been somewhat slow to jump on the bandwagon. All that may be changing, however, as more companies begin to build industrial space to LEED standard or add more sustainable features to their buildings. A panel at RealShare Industrial East’s session “Smart Growth vs. Skepticism: the Greening of Industrial”, discussed the future of green industrial building, led by moderator Mike McGuinness of NJ NAIOP.

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“Our company has 75 million sf of industrial space, and five million of that, 30 buildings, is built to LEED standard,” Bill Fisher, project manager of national development for Liberty Property Trust reported. “We believe that LEED is the way of the future, and we believe that buildings that aren’t LEED certified will be obsolete.”

Andrew Mele, senior vice president of the Northeast regional development and investment group with Trammell Crow Co. agreed, saying that LEED is here to stay and that more green buildings need to be brought to market. The rest of the panel, while they agreed that moving towards green building for industrial was the way to go, advocated keeping an eye on sustainability, rather than just adhering to LEED.

“As a company, we’re trying to understand the difference between LEED and sustainability,” said Richard Johnson, a partner with Matrix Development Group. “LEED is a measurement tool, but it’s not the process. The process is sustainability.”

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