When asked to help them ‘green’ their Fort Collins project,
Brian Dunbar and Josie Plaut, directors at IBE, required Campus Crest to agree
to company-wide sustainability training, pursuit of LEED certification for
their Fort Collins project, and a re-design of their prototype design to be
applied at other upcoming developments. Campus Crest agreed to each condition
and now plans to incorporate increasing levels of sustainable development,
sustainable operations, corporate sustainability and on-going sustainability
training to their employees and the more than 18,000 student residents in their
communities.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Institute for the Built Environment receives Catalyst Award
Campus Crest Communities, a publically traded developer of
campus student housing, awarded the Institute for the Built Environment based
in the College of Applied Human Sciences at Colorado State University, with the
Catalyst Award at its annual meeting.
Campus Crest is based in Charlotte, North Carolina, and since 2007 has
built more than 30 student communities at universities across the country. In recognizing IBE, the CEOs of Campus Crest,
Michael Hartnett and Ted Rollins, acknowledged the transformation that is
taking place within the 500-employee company.
Hartnett and Rollins recounted how the transformation began – while they
were in the planning process for their project near the Colorado StateUniversity campus, a neighbor suggested that Fort Collins would be more
accepting of their development if they would make it their first green
community.