About

Verdigris Group's three primary operating divisions include their development division, Verdigris Development, as well as their LEED and sustainability consulting division Verdigris Sustainability and Verdigris Properties, their commercial and residential brokerages.

Verdigris Development is focused on delivering high-performance, LEED Certified commercial and residential properties. Verdigris Development is currently preparing to break ground on a multi-family project in Breckenridge, Colorado that is slated to earn LEED Platinum, Energy Star for Homes & Zero Energy Ready Home certifications. “This development will serve as a beacon of sustainability and as a prime example of what Verdigris Group's integrated Meta-Green™ planning, design and construction process can achieve in bringing forth next-generation technology and livability.” said Hasenstab.

Verdigris Group strives to account for all of their environmental impacts, offsetting the ones they cannot yet eliminate. Regarding their real estate development activities, it is their policy to only develop property that can be LEED Platinum certified by the US Green Building Council. LEED certification, and to a much greater extent Platinum LEED certification ensures that their development activities are of the highest standard of environmental protection with focuses on sustainability of the site, energy and atmosphere, water efficiency, materials and resources utilized, location and linkages, innovation, education and awareness.

Verdigris Sustainability is the consulting arm of the organization which incorporates a diverse team of LEED Accredited Professionals, sustainability experts, architects, engineers and management consultants who provide a broad range of strategic and technical sustainability consulting services for developers, builders, contractors, businesses, non-profits, and governmental organizations. Some of the services Verdigris Sustainability provides are: LEED Certification Management & Support Services, Design & Development Consulting, Life Cycle Inventory & Assessment, Enterprise Carbon Accounting, Green Product LEED Specification Services, Energy Consulting and Strategic Development Consulting Services.

Their third primary operating unit is Verdigris Properties, "The World's Only Carbon Neutral Property Brokerages™ which specializes in the marketing and sale of a wide spectrum of property-types, including their own developments. Verdigris Properties’ broad brokerage experience includes transaction management in raw-land, agricultural, educational, health-care, commercial and a variety of residential project-types.

2014 was a banner year for Verdigris Group, having been honored with the “Best of 2014 Award” for Real Estate Development and Consulting Firms by the Chicago Awards Committee Board of Review, and was inducted into the Chicago Business Hall of Fame.

Additionally, Verdigris Group is ranked #2 globally for ‘Top Green Building and LEED Consulting Services’ ranked by total client nominations for The Green Survey, conducted by Brown-Wilson Group and Black Book Research - an annual survey of clients and users from 95 countries determining Consulting Service Providers’ pro-environmental initiatives from the perspective of their client experience. These research results are recognized as the most extensive and representative perception study of organizations, validated by 1,338 unique company respondents from service users around the globe between January 1 and March 1. Over 7,000 individual nominations were received during the survey.

Green Collar Research also ranks Verdigris Group as the leader in their "Top Rated LEED Consultants" AND "Top Rated Green Professional Services" companies nation-wide.

With their corporate headquarters based downtown Chicago - the "US Capital of Green Building" and their Mountain Regional offices located in Colorado, Verdigris Group's vertically-integrated organizational entities engage in a broad range of consulting services across the nation including:

• High-Performance Property Development;
• LEED® Certification Management Consulting;
• Energy Star® for Homes Property Development Consulting;
• Residential and Commercial Energy Consulting;
• Green Product Certification Documentation Development;
• Commercial & Residential Brokerage Services;
• Carbon Solutions & Sustainable Business Consulting Services;
• Green Business & Sustainable Enterprise Management Consulting