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ALVERN, PA — For the second con- secutive year, the In energy costs during the last four years Liberty Property Trust saves tenants $5 million+ M
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savings in partnership with tenants. “Landlords often don’t want to invest in ways by which only tenants receive direct savings, and tenants are often less enthusiastic about investing because they don’t have ownership,” said Marla Thalheimer , director of sustainability for Liberty. “Landlord/tenant partner- ships can result in highly suc- cessful outcomes. ‘LEEP,’ for example, is designed so that we can work with tenants on benchmarking their own energy usage data and then provide them with ongoing reports and ideas on ways to save energy. This results in very real energy savings for tenants and more efficient buildings for Liberty.” According to Bob Percia- sepe , acting administrator, U.S. Environmental Protec- tion Agency, Liberty was selected as an Energy Star Partner of the Year because, “Superior energy manage- ment is our most cost-effec- tive climate strategy and Lib- erty Property Trust continues to exemplify leadership in this category. The company’s innovative practices provide a model for energy manage- ment in the places we work, shop, and play. These strate- gies help the bottom line and support the well-being of families across America by reducing pollution and pro-
tecting the environment.” Liberty also proactively brings energy saving pro- grams and ideas to tenants and the public through the Liberty Green Guide web- site. The site is a source of information and case studies highlighting energy saving ideas and initiatives that are useful to both tenants and others in the wider com- munity. EPA’s annual ENERGY STAR Awards honor orga- nizations that have made outstanding contributions to protecting the environment through superior energy effi- ciency. The awardwinners are selected from about 20,000 partners that participate in the ENERGY STAR program and were recognized at an awards ceremony in Wash- ington, D.C. Over the past 20 years, American families and businesses have saved nearly $230 billion on utility bills and prevented greenhouse gas emissions equal to those from more than 350 million vehicles with help from EN- ERGY STAR. ENERGY STAR was intro- duced by the U.S. Environ- mental Protection Agency in 1992 as a voluntary market- based partnership to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through increased energy efficiency. About 20,000 orga- nizations are ENERGY STAR partners. n
U.S. Envi- ronmental Protection A g e n c y (EPA) has named Lib- erty Prop- erty Trust a 2013 EN- ERGY STAR
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Marla Thalheimer
Partner of the Year for strate- gicallymanaging and improv- ing the energy efficiency of its office and industrial building portfolio. Since benchmark- ing its energy use across its portfolio in 2008, the com- pany has saved its tenants more than $5 million in the 130+ buildings in which it controls energy flow. For more than a decade, Liberty Property Trust has led the commercial real es- tate industry in the devel- opment, management and operations of sustainable buildings. The company has certified more than 100 build- ings with Energy Star and de- veloped more than 40 LEED commercial buildings. It has designed and implemented innovative programs such as Building Wide Access Net- work, a proprietary real-time energy management system, and “LEEP” – the Liberty En- ergy Efficiency Partnership program – which creates a “win-win” scenario for energy
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