CH2M HILL Green Building Design

Company background

To Colorado-based CH2M HILL, incorporating sustainable development into its projects is a core business principle. As a global project-delivery firm with a staff of 12,000 around the world, CH2M HILL guides its clients’ commercial, institutional, industrial, or public works projects from the concept phase through the planning, financing, design, construction, operations, and maintenance stages. Its integrated areas of expertise include water, transportation, energy and environment, telecommunications, design-build, and facility operations. Its size and diversity enables CH2M HILL to monitor, contribute to, and benefit from industrywide trends and the latest technical developments.

Case context

Buildings account for one-quarter of the world’s wood harvest and two-fifths of its material and energy flows. In the U.S., buildings use one-third of the nation