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Green Workplace Challenge Winners Announced

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 12:01

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Sustainable Pittsburgh announced the winners of the first ever PittsburghGreen Workplace Challenge(GWC) during a morning program held at Phipps Conservatory. The organization also shared the significant positive impact the participants have had on the region over the past year.

The winners of the competition are as follows:

Small Business Category Winner: evolve environment::architecture – 221 points

The small business runner up is Pashek Associates with 147 points.

Medium Business Category Winner: Eaton Corporation – 78 points

The medium business runner up is: Ductmate – 74 points

Third place in the medium business category is WESCO – 69 points

Large Business Category Winner: Bayer Corporation – 221 points

The large business runner up is PNC Financial Services Group – 198 points

Third place in the large business category is: BNY Mellon – 188 points

In the Observer category, a non-competitive category, the top three scorers are Allegheny County with 320 points, Green Building Alliance – 219 points, and the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank – 97 points.

Combined, the 50+ forward-thinking organizations participating in theGreen Workplace Challenge saved enough energy to power 5,842 averageU.S.homes for a year (67,159,765 kWh of energy savings). This equates to more than all of the occupied homes inEast Allegheny(1252 homes), Friendship (1071), Hays (166), Polish Hill (697),Regent Square(456), and Southside Slopes (2130) for a year. Additionally, enough water was saved to fill Heinz Field with 13 feet of water! (Nearly 91 million gallons saved!) In terms of reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, participants saved over 18,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, which translates to roughly 452 airline flights of 500 miles: 3.1 days worth of all flights leaving Pittsburgh International Airport on a given day.

More information about the GWC is available at http://greenchallenge.C4SPgh.org.