ATLANTA (4 November 2024) — CoreNet Global, the premier association for corporate real estate professionals, announced today that the city of Toronto has received the prestigious H. Bruce Russell Global Innovator’s Award, which is presented by founding sponsor Gensler.

Toronto’s award-winning program is titled “Modernizing the City of Toronto’s Facilities Management Service Delivery.”

As previously announced, judges drawn from senior leaders in the association selected winners listed below in the Professional Excellence and Sustainable Leadership categories.

Professional Excellence Award

Winner:

Google – Adapting St. John’s Terminal as Google’s Workplace of the Future

Finalists:

• CBRE – Electric Vehicle Innovation Design Center for Technician Training and Solutioning in Jacksonville, Florida
• City of Toronto, Corporate Real Estate Management, Facilities Management --

Modernizing the City of Toronto’s Facilities Management Service Delivery

• JLL – Integrating Sustainability into the Occupier Lifecycle
• Philips Real Estate – India – Sub-Continent – Philips New R&D Campus Project
  

Sustainable Leadership Award

Winner: 

Unispace and Arup, in partnership with Te Manu Taupua Ltd. – Arup, New Zealand: The Country’s Most Regenerative Workplace

Finalists:

• Cisco – Cisco’s Global Workplace Transformation and Sustainability Strategy
• TD Bank and BGIS – Smart Control of Retail Branch HVAC Equipment
  

About CoreNet Global

CoreNet Global is a non-profit association, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia (US), representing nearly 10,000 members 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 46 local chapters and networking groups globally.

For more information, please visit corenetglobal.org.