Harley Ellis Devereaux Adds 101st LEED-Accredited Designer

The firm, with offices in Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit and San Diego, certified its 101st employee in its 101st year in business.

Nicholas Tamarin -- Interior Design, 7/2/2009

Harley Ellis Devereaux Office, Los Angeles

Before the eco-revolution, the definition of green was inexperience—and you certainly can’t accuse 101-year-old Harley Ellis Devereaux of that. Instead, the architecture and design firm embodies the new vernacular, and just tallied, coincidentally, its 101st LEED-accredited professional.

The firm can now boast that more than a third of its 300 planners, architects, and engineers have been recognized as professionals with the knowledge and skills to successfully steward the United States Green Building Council’s LEED certification process.


Wallbridge Corporate Headquarters

"We recognize the design industry has an important role to play in curbing climate change, since buildings produce 39 percent of CO2 emissions in the United States," says corporate chairman and CEO Dennis King. "We have a responsibility to alter the way we plan, design and construct buildings so we can change the course of our planet's future."

With offices in Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, San Diego and Riverside, California, the firm has also joined leading U.S. practices in signing the American Institute of Architect's 2030 Challenge to create only carbon-neutral, or "net zero," buildings within 20 years.

 
Wallbridge Corporate Headquarters

"Our legislators are mandating that companies and institutions manage and reduce their carbon footprint. We're helping clients answer to this call," says corporate president J. Peter Devereaux. They are also adhering to a firm-wide commitment, established in 2007, to design all projects to meet at least the minimum level of LEED certification.

Images courtesy of Harley Ellis Devereaux.