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26 buildingoperatingmanagement SEPTEMBER <strong>2011</strong> COVER STORY Allan Skodowski, Senior Vice President, LEED and sustainability services, Transwestern Right: Transwestern’s Milwaukee-based sustainability services team.
uildingoperatingmanagement SEPTEMBER <strong>2011</strong> 27 Allan Skodowski uses sustainability as the cornerstone for best practices across a 192 million-square-foot real estate portfolio by greg zimmerman, executive editor Visit Allan Skodowski at Transwestern sustainability services team’s new 3,500-square-foot Milwaukee headquarters, and it’s easy to see how the small space is a perfect launching pad for the organization’s big sustainable goals. The office is tucked into a third-floor corner of a rehabbed turn-of-the-century knitting factory. Transwestern sustainability services was one of the first tenants to build-out space in the building, a LEED for Core and Shell Silver certified facility clad in rich Cream City brick with a skeleton of striking timber columns. Skodowski, who is senior vice president, LEED and sustainability services for Transwestern, is clearly proud of the space, which he and his 16-member team have occupied for about 18 months. Earlier this year, the bright, high-ceilinged, open-plan space earned LEED for Commercial Interiors Platinum certification. On a sunny mid-July morning, Skodowski stands in the reception area, shows off how he can adjust the blinds with a remote control, and then spends several minutes explaining how his team selected the building and built out the space, why the LEED certification on the core and shell was a critical factor, and how his team went about managing the process of its own Platinum certification. But beyond the “wow factor,” it seems the real reason Skodowski beams as he describes the office is that it represents the confluence of several aspects of his Transwestern duties. As head of the Transwestern sustainability services team, he is the company’s sustainability
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