It Is Easy To Be Green

HOUSTON-After building sustainable offices worldwide, Hines is looking inward, making sure its office practices are as environment-friendly as its exteriors. The international real estate firm’s green office program, now being implemented throughout its 230-plus offices worldwide, soon will be spread to the company’s global tenants.

Called HinesGO (Hines Green Office), the program enhances the sustainable features and space operations developed by the company’s 1,100 properties worldwide. These initiatives range from the sophisticated–motion sensors to turn off lights–to the relatively simple–double-sided printing.

“Hines has been very involved in energy savings from the very beginning,” of its construction projects, Ilene Allen, vice president of corporate operations services of Hines, tells GlobeSt.com. The company works closely with the US Green Building Council LEED program and Energy Star. “We said, ‘We do such a great job with that, how can we bring it inside?’”