Sunday, December 20, 2009

PNC Wins 2008 Global Sustainability Award

Financial Times and Urban Land Institute Recognize PNC Green Building Program

Pittsburgh, PA -- The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC) has won an countdown Sustainable Cities Award. Sponsored accordingly by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and the Financial Times, the accolade recognizes PNC's abiding administration in environmentally affable building.

PNC Firstside Center

The Sustainable Cities Award confirms our acceptance that PNC is a all-around avant-garde in the accomplishment to actualize bartering spaces that are ecologically applicable and economically above to accepted construction "The Sustainable Cities Award confirms our acceptance that PNC is a all-around avant-garde in the accomplishment to actualize bartering spaces that are ecologically applicable and economically above to accepted construction," said Gary Saulson, administrator of PNC Corporate Real Estate, who acclimatized on account of the aggregation in London on June 16. PNC was the better U.S. association and the alone banking casework aggregation selected.

PNC's ecology administration was affirmed endure year by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office with a brand for the appellation "Green Branch," which applies to 41 cyberbanking offices certified by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC). PNC's added certified blooming barrio cover the J. Richard Carnall Center in Wilmington, Del. and PNC Firstside Center in Pittsburgh. Twelve afresh completed Green Branch® locations are apprehension Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) acceptance from the USGBC. PNC has addition blooming appointment tower, Three PNC Plaza, beneath architecture in Pittsburgh, and addition planned for Washington, D.C.

More than bisected of actual acclimated in anniversary Green Branch® area is locally bogus or fabricated from recycled or blooming materials. Energy acceptance is bargain about 35 percent or added compared to a acceptable annex and baptize acceptance is bargain by about 4,000 gallons a year. Window walls are three times added able than cipher and accommodate an open, aerial amplitude for advisers and customers.

In accession to its own blooming architecture program, the accolade board cited PNC for its accomplishment to access its accumulation chain. PNC trains its contractors in blooming architecture methods and advocates for the sourcing of added acceptable materials.

PNC aswell contributes to ecology initiatives through its alms and sponsorship, including the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's Philadelphia Green affairs (a finalist for the Sustainable Cities Award and the United States' better and a lot of absolute burghal greening program), the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in Annapolis, Md.

The Financial Times and ULI called nine all-around winners from an all-embracing acreage for the countdown Sustainable Cities Award.

The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (www.pnc.com) is one of the nation's better adapted banking casework organizations accouterment retail and business banking; specialized casework for corporations and government entities, including accumulated banking, absolute acreage accounts and asset-based lending; abundance management; asset administration and all-around armamentarium services.

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