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 |
Sectors with the most clients receptive to green design
| Sector | Clients |
| Government | 54% |
| Educational | 44% |
| Corporate | 27% |
| Hospitality | 19% |
| Health care | 13% |
| Residential | 12% |
| Cultural | 8% |
| Retail | 8% |
Specified Green Products
| Product | Percent specified |
| Carpet | 98% |
| Hard Flooring | 94% |
| Flooring | 93% |
| Wall covering | 93% |
| Furniture | 91% |
| Paint | 91% |
| Lighting | 84% |
| Building products | 83% |
| Other | 17% |
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