Wight on Green

Choose Wight, Choose Green.

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. We’ve been practicing sustainability since our founding as a surveying and civil engineering firm in 1939. In the late 1990’s we became a founding member of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and the architect of one of the first LEED Certified buildings in the country. During the last decade, Wight has become a recognized leader in sustainable design and construction. Today, we bring to each project varying degrees of green design - Shades of Green as we like to say. As environmental stewards, we help our clients achieve the level of sustainability best suited to their needs, because sustainable design and construction benefit everyone: our clients, their end users, and the Earth.

We believe that sustainable design is not just a trend but rather an irreversible movement that will permanently alter how buildings are designed and constructed. For more than a decade, we have been at the forefront of this movement because we know that green design delivers significant economic, aesthetic and environmental benefits. In 1999 we provided integrated design and construction services on one of the first LEED Certified building in the nation - the US Navy’s Bachelor Enlisted Quarters at Great Lakes Naval Station.

Today, we are just as committed to sustainability. We are proud to have designed and built the first LEED Certified school in Illinois in 2003, and to have been the architect of one of only a handful of LEED Platinum buildings in the nation, and have a second underway. These days, LEED certification of buildings is becoming the standard, and in some cases, it is regulated. Currently, we have more than 20 LEED Certified and Registered buildings (including silver, gold and platinum designations).

Some clients chose to pursue LEED Certification while others want a less formal process to incorporate sustainable elements in their building design or site plan. We partner with our clients to determine the level of sustainability that best achieves their unique goals. But our commitment doesn't end there. For our entire organization, sustainable stewardship is a way of life. All of 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, and we have more than 50 LEED Accredited Professionals on staff (a list which continues to grow). When you choose Wight, you choose Green.

Click here to view our LEED Certified and registered projects.