CHICAGO--Jones Lang LaSalle has announced the acquisition of the environmental consulting firm, ECD Energy, best known as the developer of technology underlying environmental rating systems for buildings, including Green Globes for the Green Building Initiative (GBI) and Go Green for BOMA Canada.
Professionals and staff of ECD Energy join Jones Lang LaSalle's Toronto office and will join forces with the firm's worldwide network of sustainability professionals.
Jones Lang LaSalle also gains use of ECD's technology platform for assessing the sustainability profile of commercial buildings and benchmarking across portfolios. The tools assess new building designs, existing building operations and interior fit-outs in terms of their energy, water and environmental impact as well as the health and comfort of building occupants.
ECD developed Green Globes for new construction and existing buildings. It is licensed and overseen in the United States by the Green Building Initiative (GBI). In Canada, the Green Globes system for existing buildings is licensed and overseen by BOMA Canada under the brand name "Go Green" (Visez vert). Under the terms of this acquisition, these Green Globes standards will be kept independent from Jones Lang LaSalle and operated under the governance of the GBI in the United States and BOMA in Canada.
ECD joins the fast growing sustainability offerings at Jones Lang LaSalle that include sustainability strategy, energy management, portfolio and facility management, project development management of LEED certifications, as well as research and advocacy in addition to the sustainability best practices adopted by associates throughout the company. In October 2007, Jones Lang LaSalle acquired Upstream, the UK's leading environmental consulting practice.
In recent months, Jones Lang LaSalle has formalized its Sustainability Commitment, which includes a goal to have 500 sustainability accredited professionals by the end of 2009, including programs such as Green Globes and LEED in the U.S., LEED in India, BREEAM in the UK, ABGR and Green Star in Australia, and others. The firm has also formalized the industry's first Sustainability University to train employees in sustainable standards and practices.
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