Robert Lamoureux

IHG' Green Engage Provides Hotels with a Streamlined Approach to Achieve Important Sustainability Certifications
by Robert Diamond - Feb 13, 2014

ATLANTA, Feb. 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) today announces that IHG Green Engage, the online sustainability program used by more than 2,600 IHG-branded hotels worldwide, is now recognized by the U.S. Green Building Council under its LEED Volume program and Green Key Global (GKG) as providing streamlined pathways to certification. IHG is the first hotel company to provide an approach to precertification for new-build hotels under the LEED 2009 for New Construction rating system. This is IHG's second LEED designation IHG was also the first hotel company to provide LEED precertification for existing hotels.