Global Architecture & Design Firm, Corgan, Joins the Climate Group
April 23 2024 - 11:32AM
Business Wire
Global architecture and design firm Corgan has joined the
Climate Group, a non-profit formed in 2003 to drive climate action
by working with companies, governments, and other organizations
with the power to reduce carbon emissions on a large scale. Corgan
is now part of a coalition of 120 energy-smart businesses committed
to accelerating energy efficiency. The Climate Group targets five
industries - energy, transport, built environment and industry -
that contribute the most to carbon emissions. As a part of the
built environment industry, Corgan has an important role to play in
reducing operational and embodied carbon, a key component in the
fight against climate change.
“The building industry accounts for more than 40% of annual
global carbon emissions. As a top architecture firm, we have the
opportunity and responsibility to leverage our research in
sustainability and our design expertise to reduce operational and
embodied carbon emissions in the built environment,” said Varun
Kohli, Corgan’s Director of Sustainability and Principal. “Corgan
has been working to reduce our environmental impact, be it in our
operations or our design work. We love to collaborate with
like-minded organizations to share knowledge and support each other
for the greater good. We are excited to join the Climate Group’s
EP100 and look forward to working with our cohorts globally to
advance our efforts to decarbonize the built environment.”
Corgan formalized its sustainability practice, Echo, in 2022
with the ethos that sustainability is an echo of performance and
that optimal performance cannot be achieved without considering the
environmental impact of a project. Corgan-Echo supports the firm
with expertise and resources to guide their projects and clients
toward a more sustainable future.
As a member of the Climate Group and part of its EP100 program,
the firm is committed to improving its energy productivity to lower
their emissions and improve their competitiveness. The mission of
EP100 companies is to lower global energy demand and accelerate the
clean energy transition.
This commitment aligns with Corgan’s goal to be carbon neutral
in 2025 as part of the World Green Building Council’s Net Zero
Carbon Buildings (NZCB) initiative. In addition to the NZCB
commitment, Corgan is also a signatory to the AIA 2030 Challenge,
for which it records and shares performance data for its
projects.
Having established environmental sustainability as a core value
for the firm, Corgan continues to work with their clients and
assist them in creating a path to minimizing both operational and
embodied carbon emissions while designing people centric projects.
Before the end of 2024, the firm will present its climate action
plan and complete carbon accounting for Scopes One and Two of its
global operations. The firm will also continue to push the
boundaries of performance design and deliver decarbonization
strategies and projects.
An example of Corgan’s focus on sustainability and
decarbonization is their design of Wells Fargo’s new net-positive
campus in Irving, Texas. Net positive goes beyond meeting energy
needs of the building, but generating excess renewable energy
on-site than is required for building operations and adding that
excess power back to the electricity grid. Learn more about
Corgan’s sustainability expertise here.
ABOUT CORGAN
Corgan is an employee-owned architecture and design firm with 18
locations and nearly 1,000 team members globally. The firm, ranked
as the #4 architecture firm by Building Design + Construction and
#6 in Interior Design’s Giants, works with clients in a variety of
sectors including aviation & mobility, data centers, education,
health, mixed-use, multifamily, office, and workplace. Founded in
1938, Corgan has developed a strong reputation for agility in
design by anticipating marketplace changes and leading clients to
thoughtful, data-driven design solutions. Its research insights and
design expertise empower the organization to foresee emerging
changes and develop solutions that minimize risk, create
flexibility, and maximize longevity. To learn more about Corgan,
visit www.corgan.com.
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