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Join us this month for a presentation with Brett Phillips, Director of Sustainability from Unico Properties

Brett Phillips, Director of Sustainability / Unico Properties

Brett Phillips is the director of sustainability for Unico’s real estate portfolio, managing energy and environmental conservation projects across Unico’s 15 million square foot portfolio of office, retail, and multifamily properties.  His responsibilities include reducing company-wide energy consumption, setting high performance maintenance and operations standards, instituting sustainable best practices, and promoting sustainability to industry and government leaders.  While with Unico, he’s led property teams to achieve ENERGY STAR® awards at 80 percent of the Class-A office properties in Unico’s portfolio and LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certifications for over 70 percent.

In 2011, Brett led Unico to BetterBricks’ Property Manager of the Year Awards in Oregon and Puget Sound (Washington) and earned Unico Washington’s Green Company of the Year as recognition by Seattle Business Magazine. 

Brett is board chairman for the 2030 District, a group focused on advancing high performance building opportunities to businesses and government leaders, locally and nationally, and chairs the BOMA-Seattle/King County Sustainability Committee.  He is a sought after national speaker, sharing thought leadership on pressing topics and current trends in the green building and sustainability field.

Previously, Brett worked on the King County Executive’s Global Warming Task Force and procured the first county-owned Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) in the United States.

Brett earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in government and finance from The College of William & Mary in Virginia.  He is a LEED-Green Associate and LEED-AP, as certified by the U.S. Green Building Council. 

We hope to see you there!