GREYSTAR GREEN AWARDS

GREYSTAR GREEN
AWARDS
2014
Greystar Green Awards - Table of Contents
Table of Contents:
 Valued Sponsors
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 Overview
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 Community Accomplishments
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 Recycling Conservation Results
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 Certified Green Buildings Under Development/Management
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 Greystar Green Award Winners
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Greystar Green Awards – Valued Sponsors
Thank you to our valued Green Award sponsors:
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Greystar Green Awards - Overview
What are the Greystar Green Awards?
Twice a year (during April for Earth Day and during Greystar's “Sustainable September” event), each
Greystar-managed community updates a survey to record the green initiatives it completed throughout
the year.
The survey is broken out into seven categories, and communities earn points based on their responses
within each category. 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 are also listed in the Greystar Find an Apartment search as a Greystar Green
Community.
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Greystar Green Awards - Overview
What are the award categories?
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
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• 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.
Greystar Green Awards – Community Accomplishments
What have Greystar communities done to save money and save the
planet?
Based on the 628 or 85% of our communities that fully completed the 2014 survey:
Community
Education
• 215 promoted and participated in Earth Hour or Earth Day,
and 85 handed out CFL bulbs for Earth Day 2014.
• 18 communities have a community garden or greenhouse.
• 25 offer premium parking for hybrid or electric cars.
• 15% of communities actively promote the use of ridesharing
and/or public transportation.
• 65% have convenient access to public transportation.
• 34% provide maps and information about bike riding, 40%
have bike racks, and 37% have easy access to bike paths.
• 8 communities are LEED, NGBS, or Austin Energy certified,
and 32 communities are in the LEED, NGBS, or other green
building certification process (see map attached).
• 70% of managers have read the Greystar Sustainability
Policies.
• 62% of community managers include green topics in each
monthly team meeting.
• 43% provide water and energy conservation tips to residents
at move-in, 17% include conservation topics in their resident
newsletters, and 29% include them on their website and
social media
• 61% of communities follow Greystar’s Redefining Green on
social media, and 27% forward posts to clients/residents as
appropriate.
• 50% of managers talk to at least two vendors each quarter
about ways to improve conservation and recycling.
Energy Conservation
• 49% of apartment homes carry ENERGY STAR dishwashers. 48% of refrigerators, 40% of clothes washers, and 40% of water heaters
are ENERGY STAR certified, as are 37% of HVAC units.
• 46% of units have digital programmable thermostats to help residents lower electric consumption and save money
• 46% of model units have energy saving devices.
• 46% have ceiling fans in more than 50% of living and bedrooms.
• 16 communities have on-site solar photovoltaic electricity or hot water generation.
• 25% of communities change out all unit incandescent bulbs to CFLs on turns, 71% 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.
Indoor Environmental
Quality
Reduce/Reuse/Recycle
Required
• 31% of communities use low or
no-VOC paint for apartment turns.
• 32% have green cleaning policies
for in-house and contract
cleaning.
• 6% of communities offer smokefree communities or a smoke-free
floor or building.
• 36% of communities change
every air filter every 90 days or
less.
• 65% use organic or
environmentally friendly
pesticides or fertilizers
• 50% of communities offer comingled recycling to
residents.
• 35% require flooring vendors to recycle all carpet
and pad.
• 55% have eliminated all or most of their paper
flyers, replacing them with electronic
communications.
• 89% use tap water, filtered water, or a water
cooler as alternatives to single-use bottled water.
• 56% use a document/data destruction
(shredding) service that picks up paper for
recycling.
• 18% offer residents reused or reusable moving
boxes for packing.
• 99% of Greystar communities use
only FSC Certified recycled
paper, and recycle all paper in the
leasing office.
• 99% of Greystar communities
neither buy nor distribute single
use water bottles.
• 99% of Greystar communities
have designated at least one
team member to be responsible
for sustainability at the
community.
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.
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Greystar Green Awards – Recycling Conservation Results
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:
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Greystar Green Awards – Recycling Conservation
Certified green buildings under development/management.
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Greystar Green Awards – Greystar Green Awards Winners
Which communities have won the Greystar Green Award?
By the most recent award deadline date (December, 2014), 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
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Region
Number of Award
Winners
Number of Eligible
Communities
% of Winners
Central-North
29
122
24%
Central-South
48
212
23%
Florida
32
61
52%
Northeast
19
57
33%
Southeast
27
94
29%
Southwest
21
117
18%
West
12
72
17%
Total
188
735
26%
Greystar Green Awards – Greystar Green Awards Winners
2014 Greystar Green Award Winners by award level.
Gold
Winners
Greystar Red River Flats
Central South ● Austin San-Antonio ● TX
North Tract Lofts
Northeast ● DC-NE ● VA
The Village at West Point
Southwest ● Phoenix ● AZ
33 West Apartments
Silver
Winners
Florida ● South Florida ● FL
Arbors at Orange Park
Florida ● Orlando ● FL
Jones Chicago
Central North ● Midwest ● IL
Plantation Colony
Florida ● South Florida ● FL
Regatta
Central South ● Austin-San-Antonio ● TX
Upper Kirby
Central South ● Houston ● TX
WaterWall Place
Central South ● Houston ● TX
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Greystar Green Awards – Greystar Green Awards Winners
Bronze Winners
Central-North
Falconhead
The Canopy
The Boulevard
400 Meeting Street
Falls at Copperlake
The Four
The Crest at Galleria
Austin Bluff
Hillstone at Prue
The Heritage at Boca Raton
The Devon Four25
Avana El Dorado
Hillstone Ranch
The Laurels at Jacaranda
The Grandview at Lake Murray
Avana on Seven
Kirby Place
The Palms
The Pointe At Chapel Hill
Elan Lakeside
Ladera Apartment Homes
The Reserve at Gateway
The Reserve at Mill Creek
Elan Uptown
Lakeshore Pearl
The Retreat at Windermere
The Reserve at Waterford Lakes
Enclave at the Riverfront
Lantana Hills
The Terraces, Jacaranda Club
Verde Vista
Fairlane Town Center
Miramar Townhomes
Trinity Club
Whitehall Parc
Four Winds
Montage at Cinco Ranch
Villas at Gateway
Woodfield Long Point
Gateway at Columbia
Mosaic at Mueller
Lakeside Urban Center
Nalle Woods
315 on A
Allure at Tempe
Manchester State Thomas
Northgate Oaks
Avana Abington
Belmar TAH Apartments
Optima Chicago Center
Peanut Factory Lofts
Aventine Silver Spring
Candela Park
Ranch at Pinnacle Point
Plantation at the Woodlands
Cascade at Landmark
Copper Flats
Somerset at Spring Creek
Reserve at Garden Oaks
Courts of Avalon
Courtney Village
SoNo East
Residences at Gramercy
Ellipse at Government Center
Domus
Tapestry Naperville
Sabina
Factory 63
Elevation Chandler
The Fairways
Steel House Lofts
Grand Adams
Esteban Park
The Forum at Denton Station
The Grand on Memorial
Huntington at King Farm
Highland Park Apartments
The Legends at Indian Springs
The Saulet
Londonbury at Millennium
Monarch at Tempe
The Mondrian Cityplace
The Waterford at Summer Park
The 615 at Odenton Gateway
Park View Apartments
The Village at LionsGate
Villas at River Oaks
The Carlton at Greenbrier
Residences at 4225
Towers at UTC
Walden Pond and The Gables
The Commonwealth
Sedona Ridge
Vail Quarters
Waterstone
The Heights of Collingswood
Solaire
Valley Creek
WestEnd
The Lofts at Atlantic Wharf
Solera
Venue at North Campus
Yorktown Crossing
The Pointe at River Glen
The Retreat at Cheyenne Mtn
Tower Place
The Rise
Townes at Herndon Center
The Yards at Denargo Market
Waterford Place Apartments
Windermere Place
Central-South
Florida
Arbor Glen
Northeast
Bella Vista at Boca Del Mar
Southeast
Southwest
Trellis Park at Cheyenne
1800 Broadway
Bridges at Kendall Place
335
5th Street Commons
Centro at Davie
Artisan at Brightleaf
95Twenty Apartments
Elan Gateway
Ashton Reserve at Northlake
15FIFTY5 (Legacy Walnut Creek)
Alexan Shadow Creek
Hawthorne Village
Avana at Carolina Point
Arioso
Alexan Vistas
Hidden Harbor
Crest at Greylyn
Canterbury Apartments
Avana at South Shore
Huntington Place
Daniel Island
Copper Ridge
Avana Brazos Ranch
Marina Landing
Edinborough at the Park
Creekside Village
Avana Grogan's Mill
Meadow Brook Preserve
Elan Midtown
Great Republic Lofts
Avana Grove
Mizner court
Element Uptown
Montecito
Boardwalk at Med Center
NoHo Flats
Garrett West
Oceano Warner Center
Boardwalk at Town Center
One Plantation
Gateway West
Park Kiely
Broadstone Colonnade
River View
Grand Oak at Town Park
Stream Uptown
Chandler Park
Savannah Lakes
McBee Station
Summerwood
Chandlers Mill Apartments
Sawgrass Cove
Metro 808
The Lofts at Albert Park
Deerfield
Sienna
Perimeter Lofts
Encore Landing
St. Tropez Apartments
Promenade Boiling Springs
Falcon Ridge
Stonybrook
Stoneleigh at Deerfield
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