2015 results

2015 results
Table of Contents:
 What are the Greystar Green Awards?
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 What have Greystar communities accomplished?
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 How have resources been conserved through recycling?
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 Which Greystar communities have won awards?
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Thank you to our valued Green Award sponsors.
What are the Greystar Green Awards?
Twice a year (during April for Earth Day and during Greystar's “Sustainable September” event), each Greystarmanaged community updates a survey to record the green initiatives they have completed throughout the year,
adding points to their score in each of seven different categories.
When a community reaches the designated point level in every category, they receive the Greystar Green Award
designation, a distinguished plaque for their office, and a logo to use on their website. They also are listed in the
Greystar Find an Apartment search as a Greystar Green Community. The seven categories are described below:
Community
• Community points are earned through promoting sustainability
within the property to residents, creating community events, and
providing resources.
Education
• Education points are earned by learning Greystar’s sustainability
policies, providing residents with conservation information,
following and promoting Greystar’s social media posts, and
incorporating sustainability topics in team meetings.
Energy Conservation
• Points are earned here by purchasing ENERGY STAR appliances
as replacements, installing energy saving devices in common
areas and apartment homes, and using high efficiency lighting.
Indoor Environmental
Quality
• IAQ points can be earned through green cleaning policies, making
non-smoking buildings available to residents, using low/no VOC
paints, and more.
Reduce/Reuse/Recycle
• RRR points are earned through reducing paper use, offering data
destruction to residents, using filtered water instead of bottled, and
promoting and improving recycling diversion for residents.
Required
Water Conservation
• The required category includes mandatory policy questions that
must be answered affirmatively to complete the category.
• Points are earned through the use of low-flow devices,
preventative maintenance, ensuring proper tracking of
consumption, and upgrading landscaping and irrigation systems to
reduce water consumption over time.
What have Greystar communities done to save money and save the planet?
Based on the 929 of our communities that fully completed the 2015 survey:
Community
Education
• 688 of communities promoted the use of ridesharing and/or
public transportation.
• 699 promoted and participated in Earth Hour or Earth Day,
and 85 handed out CFL bulbs for Earth Day 2015.
• 90% promoted biking by providing rental bikes, bike racks,
and/or maps or information about bike riding in the area.
• 85% of communities follow's Greystar's Redefining
Green on social media via blog posts and/or
Facebook.
• 258 communities forward's Greystar's Redefining
Green posts to client/residents as approritate.
• 161 communties provide water and energy
conservation tips at move-in.
• 47% talk to at least 2 vendors each quarter about
ways they help us with recycling and conservation.
• 293 communities include at least one Green topic
each month in team meetings.
• 63% of communities read the Greystar Sustainability
Policies and completed the quiz.
• 131 communities had all community team members
complete the Greystar Sustainability quiz.
Energy Conservation
• 52% of apartment homes carry ENERGY STAR dishwashers. 51% of refrigerators, 40% of clothes washers, and 42% of water heaters
are ENERGY STAR certified, as are 38% of HVAC units.
• 62% of units have digital programmable thermostats to help residents lower electric consumption and save money
• 43% of model units have energy saving devices.
• 25% of communities change out all unit incandescent bulbs to CFLs on turns, 45% use CFLs or LEDs in the leasing office, and 5%
distribute them in their move-in package to residents, and 35% provide free replacement CFL's.
• When appliances need to be replaced, 73% of communities always replace them with ENERGY STAR appliances.
Indoor Environmental
Quality
• 33% of communities use low or
no-VOC paint for apartment turns.
• 31% have green cleaning policies
for in-house and contract
cleaning.
• 6% of communities offer smokefree communities or a smoke-free
floor or building.
• 34% of communities change
every air filter every 90 days or
less.
Reduce/Reuse/Recycle
• 50% of communities offer comingled recycling to
residents.
• 35% require flooring vendors to recycle all carpet
and pad.
• 58% have eliminated all or most of their paper
flyers, replacing them with electronic
communications.
• 84% use tap water, filtered water, or a water
cooler as alternatives to single-use bottled water.
• 45% use a document/data destruction
(shredding) service that picks up paper for
recycling.
• 3% offer residents reused or reusable moving
boxes for packing.
• 9% switched to ebrouchers, exclusively.
Required
• 100% of team members are
prohibited from smoking on the
premises.
Water Conservation
• 66% of maintenance teams replace every toilet flapper on every turn for water conservation.
• 49% of units have low flow aerators; 51% have low-flow shower heads (<2.0 gpm), and 44% of units have low flow toilets (<1.6 gpf).
• 45% limit landscaping to drought-resistant, native planting, and 76% of irrigation systems are on timers.
How have Greystar’s recycling efforts conserved resources?
Greystar’s communities have made a dedicated effort to recycle. Based on a review of the recycling at Greystar’s
managed communities using Waste Management:
WM Sustainability Services
2014 & 2015 Recycling Benefits for Greystar
In 2014 & 2015, we recycled 12,062 tons of Cardboard, paper, mixed
plastics, glass and aluminum.
These recycling efforts conserved the following resources:
131,171 Mature Trees were Saved
Representing enough saved timber resources to produce
1,625,204,700 sheets of newspaper!
50,189 Cubic Yards of Landfill Airspace
Representing enough airspace to fulfill the municipal
waste disposal needs for 64,455 people for one year!
55,745,608 Kw-Hrs of Electricity
Enough power to fulfill the annual electricity needs of
4,645 homes!
Avoided 34,289 Metric Tons
(MTCO2E) of GHG Emissions
The recycling of these materials
prevented these GHG emissions!
60,683,770 Gallons of Water
Representing enough fresh water to meet the daily fresh
water needs of 809,116 people!
Sources: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, International Aluminum Institute, National Association for PET
Container Resources, Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Earth Works Group Recycler’s Handbook, One Earth
Recycle, Bring Recycling.org, National Recycling Coalition, US Forest Products Laboratory, Wheelabrator
Technologies, and Waste Management. © Waste Management 2012
Which communities have won the Greystar Green Award?
By the most recent award deadline date (October 2015), 188 managed communities had earned the Greystar
Green Award. The award-winners represented 26% or more of Greystar’s 735 managed, eligible communities.
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AWARD WINNERS SUMMARY BY REGION
Region
Number of Award
Winners
Number of Eligible
Communities
% of Winners
Central-North
20
112
18%
Central-South
24
141
17%
Central-West
27
100
27%
Central-Mountain
19
145
13%
Florida
40
107
37%
Northeast
29
100
29%
Southeast
46
148
31%
Pacific Northeast
35
248
14%
West
30
271
11%
Total
270
1372
20%
Central-Mountain
The Fairways
The Village at LionsGate
Waterford Place Apartments
Avana on Seven
Four Winds
Jones Chicago
Optima Chicago Center
SoNo East
Elan Uptown
Midtown Square
The Douglas
The Rise
Copper Flats
Solaire
Solera
Solana Cherry Creek
Sonoma Resort at Saddle Rock - Stonebriar
The Retreat at Cheyenne Mountain
Vistas at Jackson Creek
Central North
12fifty5 on University
Manchester State Thomas
Somerset at Spring Creek
Venue at North Campus
Avana El Dorado
The Forum at Denton Station
400 Meeting Street
Austin Bluff
Avana McKinney Ranch
Elan City Center
Elan Lakeside
Elan Plano
Gateway at Columbia
Haven Lake Highlands
Lakeside Urban Center
The Mondrian Cityplace
The Southwestern
Towers at University Town Center
Tribeca
Vail Quarters
Central-South
Walden Pond and The Gables
Avana Grogan's Mill
Falls at Copperlake
Retreat at Westchase
WaterWall Place
Avana at South Shore
Miramar Townhomes
Reserve at Garden Oaks
The Saulet
Westend
21Eleven
Alexan Shadow Creek
Avana Brazos Ranch
Avana Cypress Estates
Boardwalk at Town Center
Chandler Park
Deerwood Apartments
Elan Briar Forest
Montage at Cinco Ranch
Residences at Gramercy
Sunrise By The Park
The Grand on Memorial
Villas at River Oaks
Yorktown Crossing
Central-West
95Twenty Apartments
Avana Grove
Cielo
Falconhead
Mosaic at Mueller
Nalle Woods
Riverlodge
Sabina
5th Street Commons
Encore Landing
Gibson Flats
Waterstone
Alexan Vistas
Corazon
Deerfield
Ladera Apartment Homes
Lamar Union
Lantana Hills
Pressler Apartments
Boardwalk at Med Center
Chandlers Mill Apartments
Hillstone at Prue
Hillstone Ranch
Panther Springs
Peanut Factory Lofts
Regatta
The BLVD at Medical Center
Florida
Hawthorne Village
Marina Landing
Arbors at Orange Park
The Retreat at Windermere
7 Central
Alexan Southwood
Belmont
The Four
Milagro Coral Gables
One Plantation
Bella Vista at Boca Del Mar
Hidden Harbor
Seabourn Cove
Stonybrook
The Exchange Lofts
33 West Apartments
Blu on Marina Boulevard
Bridges at Kendall Place
Centro at Davie
Midtown Delray
Mizner court
Plantation Colony
River View
Savannah Lakes
Sheridan Village
St. Tropez Apartments
The Heritage at Boca Raton
The Laurels at Jacaranda
The Palms
The Terraces, Jacaranda Club
Arbor Glen
Elan Gateway
The Reserve at Gateway
Villas at Gateway
Sierra Grande
Circa Fishhawk
Meadow Brook Preserve
NoHo Flats
Sawgrass Cove
Trinity Club
Northeast
Grand Adams
Avana Abington
Factory 63
Ravens Crest Apartments
The Lofts at Atlantic Wharf
Troy Boston
The 615 at Odenton Gateway
The Carlton at Greenbrier
Courts of Avalon
Townes at Herndon Center
1000 Jefferson Street Apartments
Cascade at Landmark
Del Ray Central
Elan Potomac Heights
Ellipse at Government Center
Highland Square
Huntington at King Farm I
Lincoln Green
Parkway Lofts
The Ascent
The Avanti
The Commonwealth
The Heights of Collingswood
The Milano
The Pointe at River Glen
The Residences at Moorefield Village
The Verona at Landover Hills
Tower Place
Tuscany Apartments
Pacific Northwest
Reflections at Happy Valley
Ardea
Avana Orenco Station
Creekside Apartments
Cyan PDX
Eddyline
Park 19
Riva on the Park
Savier Street Flats
Spring Creek
The Emery
Creekside Village
Stream Uptown
Canterbury Apartments
Central Park East
206 Bell
47+7
77 Central
Alley 24
Arcadia Townhomes
Aspira
Copper Ridge
Cove East
Landmark
Metropolitan Tower
Nova
Quintessa
Stack House
Sunset Electric
The Luke
The Residences at 3295
The Shelby
Via 6
Whispering Pines
Woodland North
Southeast
Ashford 2788
Lane Parke
Stoneleigh at Deerfield
Flats at Ponce City Market
The Waterford on Piedmont
The Boulevard
Alexan Withers Preserve
Central Square at Watermark Apartments
Daniel Island
Elan Midtown
Element at Carolina Bay
Flats At Mixson
The Grandview at Lake Murray
The Reserve at Mill Creek
Woodfield South Point
Crest at Greylyn
Metro 808
The Crest at Galleria
The Reserve at Waterford Lakes
335
1100 South
Addison Park
Ashton Reserve at Northlake-Phase II
Belle Haven
Courtney Ridge
District Flats at Summit and Church
Element South
Element Uptown
Gateway West
Innovation Apartments Homes
Perimeter Lofts
Promenade Boiling Springs
The Gateway at Golden Isles
Whitehall Parc
The Enclave at the Riverfront
The Legends at Indian Springs
Garrett West
Midtown Green
The Devon Four25
300 Swift
Alexan North Hills
Artisan at Brightleaf
Edinborough at the Park
Millbrook Green Apartment Home
Parc at University Tower
The Pointe At Chapel Hill
West
Avana North Hollywood
Oceano Warner Center
Great Republic Lofts Apartments
Montecito
The Summit At Stevenson Ranch
Trellis Park at Cheyenne
Allure at Tempe
Esteban Park
Candela Park
Highland Park Apartments
Courtney Village
Ovation at Tempe
Park View Apartments
Residences at 4225
Sedona Ridge
The Village at West Point
Annadel
33 North
Park Kiely
15FIFTY5 (formerly Legacy Walnut Creek)
Arioso
Bay Street Apartments
Hillside Village
Levare
Library Gardens
Oceanview Apartments
Santana Row VIA
Summerwood
The Lofts at Albert Park
The Vineyards