VERDIGRIS GROUP
SUSTAINABILITY CONSULTING > HIGH PERFORMANCE REAL ESTATE DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT
GREEN BUILDING | ORGANIZATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY | CSR | PROJECT MANAGEMENT
We Are Your Sustainability Catalyst
Whether relaxing at home or at getting work done in your office, staying in a hotel or at learning at school, life is about the experiences that take place within these environments. At Verdigris Group, our work is to bring sustainability to each of these experiences through smart planning, design and development of spaces that turn ordinary memories into places that become milestones for life's defining moments.
At Verdigris Group, our multidisciplinary team of building-science and sustainability experts work directly with the business and construction communities to facilitate bringing big dreams to life. Acting as a Sustainability Catalystâ„¢ we connect you with the valuable resources, information and thought leadership required to create customized, sustainable solutions to complex challenges, and we create the connections and insights that integrate creativity, innovation and cutting-edge technology to bring forth next-level projects.
Verdigris Group is dedicated to providing the highest level of professional services for each of our clients and partners. We specialize in performance-driven real estate development consulting and we walk the talk as a strictly high-performance property developer. Our consulting division specializes in Building Science, LEED advisory and administration and organizational sustainability. We have proudly been a Corporate Partner with the US Green Building Council since our inception. Additionally, we are an Energy Star Builder Partner facilitating the certification of the EPA's Energy Star Construction Program. We are also recognized for our work in assisting companies, municipalities, non-profit and higher-education organizations in their efforts to develop Organizational Sustainability Programs.
Sustainability is Elemental
Sustainability: The capacity to endure. Sustainability as it relates to our business operations requires the reconciliation of environmental concerns, social equity and economic demands - also referred to as the "three pillars" of sustainability.
Elemental: a. Fundamental or essential;
b. Constituting an integral part;
c. Of such character to resemble a force of nature in power or effect.
Our corporate higher-calling: We believe that the capacity to endure is fundamental. Sustainability is elemental, it is of such character to resemble a force of nature. Sustainability is a fundamental and essential aspect of our organizational character. It is our focus. Corporate Responsibility activities are an integral part of our enterprise-level strategy that lays out a clear path forward. The Element of Sustainabilityâ„¢ adds significant value to business operations, ensuring that a profitable triple bottom-line is achieved, which only comes through working diligently toward benefiting not only the company, but as well the environment and the community or society at large. Our commitment to corporate responsibility ensures that we succeed in achieving our internal goals while achieving a greater good beyond our business efforts.
Our Organization
Verdigris Group is a group of real estate-related entities focused on sustainability. Our dynamic and award-winning organization's primary operating divisions are sustainability and green building consulting, commercial and residential property brokerage and consulting, and ultra-green, meta-efficient property development and retrofit.
Our consulting division, Verdigris Consulting is focused on guiding developers, contractors and builders toward more sustainable options for their property-related endeavors, including LEED and Energy Star certification administration services, enabling greater levels of energy efficiency, greater cost savings, and greater marketability.
Our consulting division also works directly with product manufacturers in order to guide them toward more sustainable sourcing and manufacturing processes, leading to greater product adoption in green building projects world-wide. Additionally, Verdigris Consulting works with these manufacturers to develop the specification documentation required to be counted toward credit points in the LEED rating systems, which leads to greater profitability and a greener world.
Verdigris Consulting also works with businesses, non-profits and other organizations to guide the development of sustainable enterprises, observing current practices, measuring baseline energy and resource consumption across the organization, developing tailored sustainability processes suited for the organization's unique needs and goals and implementing processes which result in more efficient, more profitable and more responsible operations.
Our award-winning development division, Verdigris Properties is focused on the sustainable critical path of real estate development, from land acquisition through completion of land and property development, in the most socially and environmentally responsible means possible. It is our policy that every property development we undertake achieves the highest possible level of LEED Certification always aiming for Platinum, ensuring that we are only pursuing projects that will stand as beacons of sustainable design and construction for the communities they are a part of.
Our Commitment
Verdigris Group is dedicated to providing the highest level of professional services for each of our clients and partners. We specialize in performance-driven real estate development consulting and we walk the talk as a strictly high-performance property developer. Our consulting division specializes in Building Science, LEED advisory and administration and organizational sustainability. We have been a Corporate Partner with the US Green Building Council since our inception. Additionally, we are an Energy Star Builder Partner facilitating the certification of the EPA's Energy Star Construction Program. We are also recognized for our work in assisting companies, municipalities, non-profit and higher-education organizations in their efforts to develop Organizational Sustainability Programs.
Our Expertise
It takes a special kind of compass to understand the present and navigate the future. Here at Verdigris Group, we are recognized globally as a leader in LEED & Green Building Consulting and Administration Services as well as being experts in building science and sustainability as they relate to the built environment. Additionally, as sustainability is at the core of our business perspective we have developed a reputation for excellence in sustainable enterprise development, carbon-neutral operations and corporate responsibility, consulting with businesses, non-profits and other organizations in order to create a better, greener and more equitable world.
A key success factor that Verdigris Group has been recognized for: The depth of our experience in a variety of project management solutions encompassing nearly every aspect of the profit-critical path of the real estate development process; from planning and entitlement, to acquisitions and financing, through development and disposition, we are persistently engaged in moving projects forward, profitably; and sustainably.
Our History
Verdigris Group, founded in 2007 is committed to the vision that our business as well as those that we work with can be sustainable from the triple bottom-line perspective. This simply means that we bring to the table our unique perspective and expertise related to sustainable business practice, thereby creating financial and economic value for our clients and our community, while at the same time contributing positively to our local surroundings, as well as our greater global human and ecological environment.
Our Company Headquarters is located in the heart of downtown Chicago, "the U.S. Capital of Green Building". As our company has grown, we have opened Mountain Region Offices in Denver and Breckenridge, CO.
One of our key success factors has been to persistently develop quality relationships and long-lasting partnerships in which we share and impart our common passions for sustainable business development in ways that endure for our stakeholders, our clients and our employees, in turn creating win-win-win relationships for all projects moving forward.