Giants: Green

Our study shows that the top 100 Giants are making sustainability an important component in their projects.

Staff -- Interior Design, 6/1/2008

We've done our tallying, and it's official: The design community is on an eco-minded roll, as evidenced by the 2008 top 100 Interior Design Giants. Half the firms on the list have 10 or mroe LEED-accredited professionals on staff. As for last year's projects, a handful of which are shown here, 77 Giants specified green products—most often, that product was carpet. How's that for low impact?

70% of the Top 100 Giants include sustainable design in their mission statement
In total, the 2008 top 100 Giants specified more than $5 billion worth of green products last year
40 of these Giants specified at least $5 million worth of green products
35% of all interior products specified in 2007 by the top 100 giants were green
On average, the top 100 giants have 13 LEED-accredited professionals on staff
Close to 33% of all projects the top 100 giants work on followed LEED guidelines
30 of these giants say at least 40% of their projects last year followed LEED guidelines
77% of the top 100 giants report that they, not the client, usually take the initial step in making a project sustainable

Cannon Design's student recreation and fitness center at the University of Main in Orono.

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's U.S. Census Bureau in Suitland, Maryland.

Cooper Carry's own office in Alexandria, Virginia

UBS in Stamford, Connecticut, by Mancini Duffy.

Cubellis's Richard Stockton College of New Jersey in Pomona.

Volkswagen U.S. headquarters in Reston, Virginia, by VOA Associates.

Boston's Office Environments of New England by CBT Architects.

Elkus Manfredi Architect's Lazarus building in Columbus, Ohio.

Zeller Realty in Minneapolis by Nelson.

Francis Cuffman's McNeil Liberty in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania.

Financial Management Organization in Washington, D.C., by Group Goetz Architects.

Chicago's Abelson Taylor by Harley Ellis Devereaux.

Gensler's REI prototype store in Boulder, Colorado.

The Chicago office of RTKL Associates.

Karlsberger's Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas in Austin.

Top 100 Giants Who Specify Green Products

Firm	Rank
A/R Environetics Group	67
ADD	95
Anshen + Allen	28
ASD	49
Ballinger	55
BAMO	62
Baskervill	90
Bergmeyer	97
BraytonHughes Design Studios	86
CBT Architects	60
Chambers	89
Cooper Carry	76
Creative Design Consultants	29
Cubellis	23
CUH2A	46
Daroff Design Inc + DDI Architects	40
DBI Architects	50
DES Architects + Engineers	87
DiLeonardo International	53
Duncan & Miller Design	82
Environments Group	85
EwingCole	37
Roger Ferris + Partners	61
Flad Architects	26
ForrestPerkins	68
Francis Cauffman	75
Gensler	1
Gresham, Smith and Partners	64
Group Goetz Architects	100
Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects	71
Harley Ellis Devereaux	31
HDR	7
HKS	35
HLW	41
HOK	2
Huntsman Architectural Group	70
IA Interior Architects	9
Jacobs	6
JGA	99
JPC Architects	81
JRS Architect	77
Karlsberger	59
Kasian	88
Milo Kleinberg Design Associates	93
Lawrence Group	52
Little	43
Loebl Schlossman & Hackl	78
LS3P Associates	57
Mancini Duffy	25
Margulies & Associates	92
Peter Marino Architects	47
Ted Moudis Associates	36
Nelson	5
Perkins Eastman	16
Perkins + Will	4
Planning Design and Research Corporation	83
Rottet Studio	21
RTKL Associates	34
Sasaki Associates	96
Shepley Bulfinch Richardson & Abbott	72
Slifer Designs	73
Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart & Associates	32
SmithGroup	14
Staffelbach Design Associates	80
Stonehill & Taylor Architects and Planners	84
Studios Architecture	39
Swanke Hayden Connell Architects	44
Switzer Group	69
TPG Architecture	22
TRO Jung/Brannen	63
TSC Design Associates	79
VOA Associates	38
Vocon	56
Ware Malcomb	45
WHR Architects	98
WWCOT	91
Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects	33