Environmental
Green Buildings
Swift is committed to sustainability and enhancing its portfolio to have a positive impact on the environment. Swift’s portfolio has 9 buildings certified LEED Gold and 21 buildings that earned a 2023 Energy Star Label.
Renewable Resources
Several of Swift’s assets participate in California’s Direct Access Program. By participating in this Program, Swift is able to increase the purchase of electricity from renewable resources depending on market conditions.
Energy Reductions
Swift’s partnership with Measurabl, an energy savings AI technology company, has allowed Swift the opportunity to monitor all assets’ electricity usage and identify areas for savings.
Recycling and Waste Diversion
Swift and its contractors complete hundreds of construction projects each year. In an environmentally conscious effort, Swift and its contractors exceed regulations and recycle at least 75% of construction debris in California, where the regulation is 65%, and at least 20% of construction debris in Washington and Oregon, where recycling of construction debris is currently unregulated. As part of Swift’s building-standard recycling and diversion programs, Swift also promotes e-waste recycling with yearly collection events at all buildings at no cost to tenants.
Green Cleaning
Swift maintains a safe environment for tenants and employees by committing to the use of sustainable cleaning products, procedures, and equipment. By developing standard sustainable operating procedures for our portfolio, our service providers are required to comply with metrics developed by the U.S. EPA, the U.S. Green Building Council, Green Seal, and other industry-accepted sustainable compliance standards. Swift’s Green Strategy encourages the use of biodegradable products, eliminates or reduces the release of harmful chemicals into the environment, promotes the conservation of water & energy, and protects our tenants, visitors and employees.
Swift’s honey project
The Swift Honey Project was conceived during a landscape project meeting in 2015. Several of our landscaped environments in the Bay Area were far from thriving. Our landscape architect attributed the sub-optimal growth to a lack of honeybees. Honeybees are a necessary part of our ecosystem and are dying at an alarming rate. Swift decided to start a sustainable and environmentally conscious effort that would be an example for our tenants and the larger real estate community. Swift now partners with local groups to install hives at office projects in the Bay Area, Southern California, and the Pacific Northwest. These hives are producing an amazing amount of honey and our landscaping has never looked better. Happy bees, happy tenants! We like to say, “the proof is in the honey”!