A peek inside Google's healthy materials program

greenbiz.com 04 Jul '12, 1pm

A peek inside Google's healthy materials program

This article originally appeared on BuildingGreen.com and is reprinted with permission. Since November 2010, Google’s facilities teams have been methodically adhering to stringent building product selection criteria for all of the company’s North American projects. To date, these have all been tenant fit-outs, but Google is moving into its first whole-building new construction project under the program and expanding it to other offices internationally in July 2012, beginning with pilot tenant improvement projects in Dublin, São Paulo, and Bangalore. Google had about 32,500 employees at the end of 2011, according to its financial report. As of May 2012, the program had covered about half of Google’s portfolio in North America, with the largest concentrations of space at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., and in New York City. Program Goals “Maintaining a h...

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