Apr 22, 2025
The RMR Group Highlights Recent Achievements in 2024 Annual Sustainability Report
Exceeds Goal of 50% Diversion of Waste from Landfills a Year Early
Certifies More Than Half of Managed Square Footage Through LEED Four Years Ahead of Target
Leverages Building Performance Standards Expertise to Manage Climate Risks
The reported achievements underscore RMR’s proactive approach in implementing sustainable practices across its nationwide portfolio, including the following highlights:
- Not only meeting but also exceeding environmental goals, including surpassing RMR’s 50% waste reduction target a year ahead of schedule.
- Certifying 53.1% of managed square footage through LEED, exceeding RMR’s 50% certification goal four years earlier than expected.
- Ensuring compliance with Building Performance Standards, helping maximize financial returns by reducing expenses and exposure to policy risk.
- RMR being named one of the 2024 Best Places to Work in Commercial Real Estate by GlobeSt.com and holding the second-highest number of properties with BOMA 360 designations of any single manager.
John Forester, Vice President, Energy & Sustainability, made the following statement:
“At RMR, sustainability is important to building value for our clients through both higher tenant and resident satisfaction and lower operating costs. We remain on track to meet or exceed our emissions, energy and water targets. Notably, we surpassed our goal of diverting 50% of generated waste from landfills a year early. Additionally, RMR increasingly benefits from collaboration between our technology and sustainability functions, enabling us to advance our Connected Buildings platform to centralize real-time energy analytics and bring remote building automation management to our engineers across our portfolio.”
RMR’s 2024 Sustainability Report is available in the Corporate Sustainability section of its website.
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