"In reviewing our portfolio and speaking with tenants, we determined that a formal energy conservation program would provide benefits to our company, our tenants and the overall environment," says Kurt Padavano, Advance's COO. "GSH has a history of providing facilities and energy management solutions. We feel that expertise will provide significant savings throughout the buildings that are part of this program rollout."

That rollout will include three properties within Advance's 4.5-million-sf portfolio. The three are One Gateway Center, a 467,000-sf, 26-story Downtown tower in Newark; 1400-1430 and 1545 Route 206, a four-building, 144,000-sf campus here; and Metro East Business Campus, nine suburban office buildings totaling 580,000 sf in Landover, MD.

According to GSH US president Jamie Reynolds, the program will involve comprehensive preventive maintenance, beginning with an evaluation of all building systems leading to specific recommendations. "Overall, the energy conservation program will have a meaningful impact on many fronts," Reynolds says.