We’re delighted to share our annual report on sustainability, wellness, and diversity, equity, and inclusion for 2022. In 2020, we created a corporate responsibility framework to investigate current business practices at all levels and build better processes that will ultimately expand business networks, create more innovative and inclusive projects, and increase productivity and performance. Last…
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Oxford Achieves Sustainable Pittsburgh Workplace Gold Designation and Well Health-Safety for 3 Crossings
We are proud to announce that we have earned the Gold designation as a Sustainable Pittsburgh Workplace. This designation highlights our commitment to managing the environmental, social, and governance impacts of our operations as central to our strategy for success. This program has helped us document our successes as well as provides a framework…
Read MoreOxford Releases First Annual Corporate Responsibility Report
We’re proud to release our first-ever Corporate Responsibility Report. Starting in 2020, we created a corporate responsibility framework to incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion, sustainability, and employee wellness as well as created working groups to address each focus. In this report, we lay out goals, successes, and challenges to begin to benchmark our efforts to…
Read MoreOxford Development Adds to WELL Health-Safety Rated Properties with Residential Properties
We’re proud to announce three of our residential buildings have become the first in the Pittsburgh region to achieve the WELL Health-Safety Rating through the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI). Joining the office buildings in our 3 Crossings campus, The Yards at 3 Crossings, Coda on Centre, and Helm on the Allegheny have all received…
Read MoreOxford Development Achieves WELL Health Safety Rating at 3 Crossings
We’re proud to announce that all buildings in 3 Crossings (2501 Smallman, 2555 Smallman, Riverfront West, Burns White Centre, and The Stacks) have achieved the WELL Health Safety rating, being the first multi-building/multi-tenant campus in the Pittsburgh region to achieve the rating. This process and rating is a direct effort to reassure tenants and visitors…
Read MoreCoda on Centre Earns Prestigious LEED® Gold Certification
We are happy to announce that Coda on Centre, our 172-unit multifamily building located at 5765 Centre Avenue in East Liberty has been awarded LEED Gold. The LEED rating system, developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), is the foremost program for buildings, homes, and communities that are designed, constructed, maintained, and operated for…
Read MoreOxford’s Sustainability Ethos
With today being Earth Day, we thought it made sense to share why we put such an emphasis on sustainability in everything we do. In fact – at a corporate level we have a Sustainability Mandate that holds the entire company accountable, from property management to development, marketing to accounting. We believe sustainable development provides…
Read MoreGreen Healthcare Design: More Than A Fad
Timothy J. Spence, AIA, LEED AP, is principal, healthcare market leader, at BBH Design (Raleigh, N.C.). Since the 1980s, virtually every industry has downsized—except healthcare, which plows ahead like the seemingly invincible Titanic. Now, most industry analysts believe past methods for doing business are crumbling and major changes lie ahead. As past processes and paradigms…
Read MoreDowntown Pittsburgh owners vow to go green
August 22, 2012 12:06 am By Mark Belko / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette One by one, they stepped to the microphone Tuesday to pledge some of Downtown’s most celebrated properties — from One Oxford Centre to PNC Park — to going greener. During the course of 45 minutes, owners of 61 properties representing 23.3 million square feet…
Read MorePittsburgh Building Owners Pledge To Cut Energy & Water Usage
By Emily Farah Wednesday, August 22, 2012 The Green Building Alliance is challenging Pittsburgh property owners to reduce the use of water, energy, and transportation emissions by 50% by 2030. Green Building Alliance C-E-O Mike Schiller, said the property owners who have committed to the initiative are called “2030 Districts,” and others have…
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