First City Tower meets gold standard - Houston Business Journal:

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LEED, which stands for Leadershi in Energy andEnvironmental Design, is a rating syste m that measures the environmental impact of a building’sx design, construction and operations. , which manages the 49-story towerr at 1001 Fannin, helped the building achieve LEED status through the CBRE GreehKnight program. The effort was led by CBRE’s genera l manager at First City Tower, Dave who recently received LEEDprofessional accreditation. , a First City Towefr tenant, helped the building gain LEED points by institutinb an aggressiverecycling program. The company implemented single streajm recycling that allows people to disposd of all recyclables inone container.
Becauses of its ease of use, the methoe increases the amount of materials that are Waste Management also provided use ofa solar-poweresd trash compactor, and began recycling the building’s lighyt bulbs and electronics. First City Tower is owne d by , an affiliate of Chicago-based The which has more than 1 million squarse feetof space, also won the Buildin Owners and Managers Association’s Office Buildinh of the Year Award internationallyg in 2007 in the renovated building