AMSTERDAM—OVG Real Estate and its Amsterdam office building known as The Edge have received the H. Bruce Russell Global Innovators Award from CoreNet Global, GlobeSt.com has learned exclusively. The property, which was completed earlier this year, is billed as the most sustainable office building on earth, with the owner/developer saying it's completely self-sufficient regarding energy usage.
Submissions for the GIA, now in its 16th year, “were all very competitive and demonstrated innovation throughout all aspects of corporate real estate,” Fabricio Lopez, CoreNet Global's VP of marketing and communications, tells GlobeSt.com. This year's awards attracted more than 40 submissions from corporate real estate projects across the globe.
“OVG Real Estate's The Edge ultimately won because it demonstrated innovation on a very large scale and in several different ways,” Lopez says. “Energy efficiency is one of the most significant trends now emerging in corporate real estate.”
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Paul Bubny
Paul Bubny is managing editor of Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com. He has been reporting on business since 1988 and on commercial real estate since 2007. He is based at ALM Real Estate Media Group's offices in New York City.
