conscientious, sustainable design & construction
South Station Tower
has been LEED Gold
pre-certified
LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is the most widely used green building rating system in the world. LEED provides a framework for healthy, efficient, carbon-and- cost-saving green buildings. LEED certification is a globally recognized symbol of sustainability achievement and leadership.
LEED is a holistic system that doesn’t simply focus on one element of a building, but at the big picture—factoring in all of the critical elements that work together to create the best building possible.
The goal of LEED is to create better buildings that:
- Reduce contribution to global climate change
- Enhance individual human health
- Protect and restore water resources
- Protect and enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services
- Promote sustainable and regenerative material cycles
- Enhance community quality of life
SOUTH STATION TOWER IS
TARGETING A BREEAM
“VERY GOOD” RATING.
BREEAM is the world’s leading and longest-established science-based suite of validation and certification systems for a sustainable built environment. It is considered to be the most rigorous assessment of sustainability that reviews construction and operational practices.
The BREEAM New construction standards provide a framework to deliver high-performing, sustainable, newly-built assets that support commercial success, whilst also creating positive environmental and social impact. Each standard uses a common framework that is adaptable to the asset’s location, allowing for international consistency and comparability.
The sustainability framework is underpinned by credible science, allowing the assessment process to identify valuable insights on the asset’s performance. The internationally recognised and third-party certification provides assurance and validation of the data collated throughout the assessment.
South Station Tower was awarded
“Real Estate Sector Leader” in 2021 and has
earned the Green Star label.
GRESB is a mission-driven and industry-led organization that provides actionable and transparent environmental, social and governance (ESG) data to financial markets. We collect, validate, score and benchmark ESG data to provide business intelligence, engagement tools and regulatory reporting solutions for investors, asset managers and the wider industry.
GRESB vision: An investment industry that plays a central role in creating a sustainable world.
GRESB mission: To provide financial markets with actionable insights, ESG data and benchmarks.
The Green Star label is awarded to assets that score higher than 50% points allocated in the relative ESG benchmarks determined through assessment.
ENERGY STAR® is the government-backed symbol for energy efficiency, providing simple, credible and unbiased information that consumers and businesses rely on to make well-informed decisions. Thousands of industrial, commercial, utility, state and local organizations—including nearly 40% of the Fortune 500®—partner with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to deliver cost-saving energy efficiency solutions that protect the climate while improving air quality and protecting public health.
In 2020, the ENERGY STAR® program for commercial buildings helped businesses and organizations save 250 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, avoid $16 billion in energy costs and achieve 180 million metric tons of greenhouse gas reductions.
Hines is pursuing a holistic and ambitious ESG strategic framework across our global portfolio in 30 countries, 395 cities and with all property types. This includes key goals such as comprehensively decarbonizing our portfolio from operational carbon by the year 2040 (without off-sets) as well as making our properties ever more healthy for its users and contributing to the needs of our occupiers and communities wherever possible. Learn more about our ESG Strategic Framework here .