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Mid Atlantic Real Estate Journal — Green Buildings — July 26 - August 15, 2013 — 21B
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Implementing water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection & indoor environmental quality Transwestern Sustainability Services assists 300 Kimball Dr. ownership in achieving Leed Silver
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ARS I PPANY, NJ — Tr a n swe s t e r n announced 300 Kim-
of kilowatt hours of electricity, allowing us to decrease the overall operating costs and increase the sustainability of our properties without any investment of capital.” Silver Bullet estimates Le- rner has saved enough water to fill more than 75 Olympic sized swimming pools since installing its first system in 2011. Up to half of a building’s wa- ter use is from cooling towers, which provide cooled water for air-conditioning, manu- facturing, and electric-power generation. By targeting this component of building infra- structure for efficiency with Silver Bullet’s water treat- ment system, property owners can immediately realize sig- nificant savings in electricity, water, labor and maintenance, while meeting corporate and government directed sustain- ability goals. If Silver Bullet’s technology were installed on 20,000 cool- ing towers, just one-percent of the commercial cooling towers in the United States, water harmful pest control methods; completed a commuter survey; installed energy-efficient inte- rior and exterior lighting; in- tegrated low-flow fixtures and aerators; adopted an environ- mentally preferable purchasing policy; instituted a composting program for pre-consumer materials in the kitchen; and implemented a green cleaning policy. “LEED certification of 300 Kimball Drive demonstrates tremendous sustainability leadership by the building’s ownership as well as Tran- swestern,” said Rick Fedrizzi , president, CEO and founding chair of USGBC. “The urgency of USGBC’s mission has chal- lenged the industry to move faster and reach further than ever before, and 300 Kimball Drive serves as a prime ex-
savings could top 10 billion gallons a year and electricity consumption could be reduced by more than 1,200 megawatts of power. “Silver Bullet is proud to partner with such notable D.C. property owners to showcase the kind of impact our tech- nology can have on buildings across the country,” said David Sunshine, president of Silver Bullet. Carr Properties installed the Silver Bullet system on five of its properties in Washington D.C. since December of 2012, including the Willard Inter- Continental in March of this year. Silver Bullet estimates those five properties have saved more than 4.5 million gallons of water and 105,000 kilowatt hours of electricity. Silver Bullet estimates that WC Smith has saved more than eight million gallons of water and 140,000 kilo- watt hours of electricity at its 298,000 square foot Federal Gateway office building since installing Silver Bullet in Au- gust of 2011. n ample of just howmuch we can accomplish.” This is the second time Tran- swestern has been recognized for its commitment to environ- mental best practices at 300 Kimball Drive. Last year, the property received an ENERGY STAR rating of 93, a 24 per- cent higher rating than what ENERGY STAR considers “top performance” and 12 per- cent higher than the average ENERGY STAR rating within Transwestern’s national man- aged portfolio. Transwestern Investment Management serves as the property’s asset manager on behalf of the building owner- ship. Transwestern handles the leasing and management of the property, led by Postell and managing director Matthew McDonough . n
Washington D.C. —A legendary downtown hotel, the Willard InterContinental and top D.C. property developers and owners Lerner Enter- prises, Carr Properties and WC Smith , joined with Silver Bullet , a water treatment company, today to introduce a commercially available system that dramatically increases building sustainability by cutting water, electricity and toxic chemical use in com- mercial buildings across the District, where sustainability has gained momentum under Executive Order 13514 on fed- eral sustainability leadership and Mayor Gray’s Sustainable D.C. Plan. “Lerner is pleased to an- nounce that we are install- ing the Silver Bullet system throughout our entire D.C. area portfolio of properties,” said Scott Mead , Lerner. Lerner Enterprises is one of the largest private real-estate developers in the Greater Washington D.C. area. “We ex- pect to save millions of gallons of water and tens of thousands ba l l Dr i ve was awarded LEED(Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Sil- ver certification under the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance green building rating system. Aheadquarters- quality class A office building, 300 Kimball Drive is strategi- cally located in the Parsip- pany submarket within Morris County. “Achieving LEED Silver cer- tification reinforces the owner- ship’s steadfast commitment to the property and ensures a first-class setting that benefits tenants as well as the environ- ment,” said Transwestern prin- cipal James Postell . “As one of
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only 14 multi-tenant buildings in New Jersey to be awarded LEED Silver or higher, 300 Kimball Drive continues to strengthen its reputation as a well-positioned and increas- ingly attractive asset.” To achieve LEED certifica- tion for 300 Kimball Drive, Transwestern Sustainability Services (TSS) and the on-site property management team
implemented numerous mea- surable sustainable solutions to strengthen the building’s operations and maintenance performance. Targeted areas included sustainable site devel- opment, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection and indoor environmental qual- ity. TSS assessed the landscape plan for ways to reduce water consumption and use the least-
Dramatically increasing building sustainability by cutting water, electricity and toxic chemical use Lerner Enterprises, Carr Props. & WC Smith, join with Silver Bullet to boost sustainability with water treatment technology
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