Wight on Green

Making green choices a way of life

Sustainability is the way we do business at Wight & Company. It is part of our corporate culture–from our recycling bins and carpool parking spaces to our native prairie landscape and LEED Certified office building.

Wight believes that sustainable design is an irreversible movement that continues to alter how buildings are designed and constructed. We’ve been practicing sustainability since our founding as a surveying and civil engineering firm in 1939. Wight was at the forefront of the sustainability movement, recognizing that green design delivers significant economic, aesthetic, and environmental benefits. In the late 1990s, we became a founding member of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). We also provided integrated design and construction services on one of the first LEED Certified buildings in the nation, the U.S. Navy's Bachelor Enlisted Quarters at Great Lakes Naval Station.

During the last decade, Wight has become a recognized leader in sustainable design and construction. Today we have a growing list of more than 60 LEED Accredited Professionals on staff, who bring varying degrees of green design to each project. We help clients achieve the level of sustainability best suited to their needs because sustainable design and construction benefits everyone: clients, tenants, and neighbors.

LEED certification of buildings is becoming the standard and in some cases is regulated, and Wight is a leader in this new and necessary trend: Wight proudly designed and built the first LEED–Certified school in Illinois in 2003 and has designed two of only a handful of LEED–Platinum buildings in the nation. We have worked on more than 30 LEED buildings: Platinum, Gold, Silver, Certified, and registered.

Sustainable stewardship is a way of life for Wight. We partner with our clients to determine the level of sustainability that best achieves their unique goals. Some clients choose to pursue LEED Certification, while others want a less formal process to incorporate sustainable elements in their building design or site plan. Our offices practice green housekeeping strategies and encourage visitors to do the same. At our Darien office, we are cultivating a living laboratory for a prairie restoration project to add native vegetation to the Illinois landscape. When you choose Wight, you choose green.

Click here to view our LEED Certified and registered projects.