COLUMBIA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Corporate Office Properties Trust (“COPT” or the Company) (NYSE: OFC) has posted its 2016 Sustainability Report on the ‘Investors’ tab of the Company’s corporate website, www.copt.com.

In the 2016 Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (“GRESB”) survey, COPT earned a “Green Star” score, the survey’s highest quadrant of achievement. This is COPT’s second consecutive year of GRESB participation, and the second year attaining the Green Star ranking. The 2016 results also ranked the Company 7^th out of 12 listed office participants in the United States, 11^th among 47 total United States office participants, and 130^th out of the 733 total participants in the survey worldwide. Please contact COPT’s IR department to obtain a copy of the Company’s 2016 GRESB survey.

The GRESB survey is widely recognized as the most rigorous standard for measuring the sustainability performance of real estate companies and funds, and GRESB participation has become standard practice for most of the world’s fund managers and listed property companies. For more information, please refer to www.gresb.com.

“We are pleased to continue and improve our external reporting for sustainability,” stated Stephen E. Budorick, COPT’s President & Chief Executive Officer. "We are committed to reporting our progress in advancing sustainability efforts annually, and look forward to discussing our platform with stakeholders,” he stated.

Company Information
COPT is an office REIT that owns, manages, develops and selectively acquires office and data center properties in locations that support United States Government agencies and their contractors, most of whom are engaged in national security, defense and information technology (“IT”) related activities servicing priority missions (“Defense/IT Locations”). We also own a portfolio of Class-A office properties located in select urban/urban-like submarkets within our regional footprint (“Regional Office Properties”). As of December 31, 2016, we derived 87% of core portfolio annualized revenue from Defense/IT Locations and 13% from our Regional Office Properties. As of December 31, 2016, our core portfolio of 152 office properties encompassed 16.3 million square feet and was 94.4% leased.