PHILADELPHIA, PA—With more than 34 percent of its office space regarded as “green,” Philadelphia ranked 14th of 30 markets on the 2015 Green Building Adoption Index, a joint project of CBRE and Maastricht University.
“Our 2015 study confirmed that green building adoption has been primarily a big building, first-tier city phenomenon,” says David Pogue, CBRE's global director of corporate responsibility. “It would appear that many smaller buildings in the majority of large markets still have an opportunity to be 'best in class' among their peer set by achieving these certifications.”
Although it slipped from number six in 2014, Philadelphia's green office space (defined as holding either an EPA ENERGY STAR label, US Green Building Council full-building LEED certification or both), Philadelphia continued to be one of the leading cities in the nation in a number of green categories.
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