CHICAGO (March 31, 2020) – IREM (Institute of Real Estate Management) is proud to announce it has received the 2020 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Sustained Excellence Award for continued leadership and superior contributions to ENERGY STAR.
The highest honor among ENERGY STAR awards is the ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year—Sustained Excellence Award. EPA presents the Sustained Excellence Award to partners that have already received ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year recognition for a minimum of two consecutive years and have gone above and beyond the criteria to qualify for recognition. Winners range from small, family-owned businesses to Fortune 500 organizations—representing energy-efficient products, services, new homes, and buildings in the commercial, industrial, and public sectors.
“We’re honored to be recognized with the ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year award, recognizing the important role real estate management plays in sustainable building practices,” says Denise LeDuc-Froemming, IREM Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President. “ENERGY STAR tools and resources are essential to adding property value and maximizing building efficiencies, while these awards raise awareness of protecting the environment while reducing energy costs.”
To earn the 2020 award, IREM advanced the following initiatives:
- Continued to advance the IREM Certified Sustainable Property (CSP) program, a green building certification that widely incorporates ENERGY STAR tools and resources and supports real estate managers in benchmarking and resource efficiency. Recent enhancements to the program include an online application platform for new, original certification, and recertification.
- Provided ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager benchmarking support to real estate managers working on IREM CSP applications.
- Continued to educate real estate managers with courses that include instruction on ENERGY STAR tools and resources, including the utility data access map tool; whole-building benchmarking in Portfolio Manager; and ENERGY STAR certification.
“I salute the 2020 ENERGY STAR award winners,” said Anne Idsal, EPA Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation. “These leaders demonstrate how energy efficiency drives economic competitiveness in tandem with environmental protection.”
For a complete list of 2020 winners and more information about ENERGY STAR’s awards program, visit energystar.gov/awardwinners.
About IREM
For over 85 years, our members have made us the world’s strongest voice for all things real estate management. Almost 20,000 leaders in commercial and residential management call this home for education, support and networking. Our CPM®, ARM®, ACoM, and AMO® certifications are internationally recognized symbols of ethical leadership and a well-managed property. And our tools deliver decades of on-the-job know-how to help members get even better at what they do. Put simply – IREM and its members are here to elevate the profession. If you know real estate management, come get to know us. irem.org
About ENERGY STAR
ENERGY STAR® is the government-backed symbol for energy efficiency, providing simple, credible, and unbiased information that consumers and businesses rely on to make well-informed decisions. Thousands of industrial, commercial, utility, state, and local organizations—including more than 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies—rely on their partnership with EPA to deliver cost-saving energy efficiency solutions. Since 1992, ENERGY STAR and its thousands of partners helped American families and businesses save more than 4 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity and achieve over 3.5 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas reductions. In 2018 alone, ENERGY STAR and its partners helped Americans avoid nearly $35 billion in energy costs. More background information about ENERGY STAR can be found at: energystar.gov/about and energystar.gov/numbers.