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 # Green Is The New Norm in Office

 


 

 Jun 27, 2014 9:00 AM ET

  Campaign:  [CBRE Environmental Sustainability](/news/campaign/cbre-environmental-sustainability) [This post originally appeared on GlobeSt.com](http://www.globest.com/)

By [Brian J. Rogal](http://www.globest.com/authors/brian-j-rogal-159.html)

LOS ANGELES—**CBRE Group, Inc.** recently launched a research project to study green buildings in the US, and its first analysis found that among US cities Minneapolis had the highest percentage of green commercial space, a result that surprised many.

“Going in, I thought we would find that this was much more of a bicoastal phenomenon,” **Dave Pogue**, CBRE’s global director of corporate responsibility, tells GlobeSt.com. But 77% of the commercial space in Minneapolis was certified as green. Other top cities include: San Francisco, which came in second with 67.2%; Chicago, which came in third with 62.1%; Houston took fourth place with 54.8%, and Atlanta rounded out the top five at 54.1%.

“Chicago did not surprise me as much,” Pogue adds, even though it is not a coastal city. “This is a first-tier market with a lot of high-profile owners and green-certified buildings also tend to be a big city phenomenon.”

The new study, dubbed the **2014 Green Building Adoption Index**, is a joint project of Los Angeles-based CBRE, the **US Green Building Council** and **Maastricht University** in the Netherlands. Led by **Dr. Nils Kok** of Maastricht, researchers combed through **Environmental Protection Agency Energy Star** and USGBC **LEED** statistical data from 2005 through 2013. They studied more than 34,000 buildings totaling more than 3.5-billion-square-feet in the CBDs of the top 30 US markets.

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*Brian J. Rogal is a Chicago-based freelance writer with years of experience as an investigative reporter and editor, most notably at *The Chicago Reporter*, where he concentrated on housing issues. He also has written extensively on alternative energy and the payments card industry for national trade publications.*



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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