Green Standards and Pepper Construction Win CoreNet Global’s 2020 H. Bruce Russell Global Innovator’s Award   

ATLANTA (28 October, 2020) — Green Standards, a Toronto-based recycler and redistributor of office furniture and equipment, and Pepper Construction, a Chicago-based environmentally friendly construction company, have each won the H. Bruce Russell Global Innovator’s Award, presented this week by CoreNet Global during the association’s 2020 Virtual Summit.   

CoreNet Global is the global association for corporate real estate.  

The association presents the H. Bruce Russell Global Innovator’s Award, sponsored by Gensler, each year to leading organizations that demonstrate best-in-class practices in advancing thought leadership in corporate real estate.

Pepper Construction’s Net-Zero Jobsite Construction Trailer leverages technology to make the project management process paperless while providing a healthy, high-performing environment for its occupants that runs on renewable energy resources. Essentially a tiny building, the trailer works holistically as one system to produce as much energy as it uses.

Green Standards has developed an industry-leading, managed program of office furniture donation, resale, and recycling that to date has diverted more than 70,000 tons of workplace furniture and equipment from landfill (a 98.6% diversion rate) and generated over $30 million of in-kind donations to more than 5,000 non-profits and communities across North America.

Earlier this year, CoreNet Global announced the full lists of finalists and winners in individual categories. All of the finalists competed for the H. Bruce Russell Global Innovator’s Award:

Professional Excellence Award Winner:  HOK: The New Inclusivity, Neurodiversity and Workplace Inclusion

Finalists:

• Genentech & VergeSense: Improved Space Utilization with New Computer Vision Sensor Model
• JLL Technologies: The Enterprise Digital Assistant from JLL Technologies
• MindShift: How Workplace Design Can Solve Businesses’ Number One Threat, Rising Chronic Disease
• New Hope Housing Inc.: New Hope Housing Reed and Cornerstone Community℠

Sustainable Leadership Award Winner: Pepper Construction: Pepper Construction’s Net-Zero Jobsite Construction Trailer

Finalists:

• Green Standards: Sustainable Decommission Solution for Corporate FF&E - North America
• ING: Global Headquarters building "Cedar" for ING Group in Amsterdam

About CoreNet Global

CoreNet Global is a non-profit association, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia (US), representing more than 11,000 executives in 50 countries with strategic responsibility for the real estate assets of large corporations. The organization’s mission is to advance the practice of corporate real estate through professional development opportunities, publications, research, conferences, designations and networking in 45 local chapters and networking groups globally. For more information, please visit www.corenetglobal.org or follow @CoreNetGlobal on Twitter.