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Property Managers Teach Green

Property management today has always been about more than just turning on the lights--but now, managers increasingly are helping building owners with sustainability issues.

By Debra Hazel | Updated on May 01, 2009

Property management today has always been about more than just turning on the lights–but now, managers increasingly are helping building owners with sustainability issues.Major managers are helping their clients go green, preaching to owners what managers themselves have been practicing at their own offices. Houston-based management companies Hines Interests and Transwestern are debuting programs to help their clients achieve more sustainable buildings.

“The larger corporate tenants are certainly asking for it,” says Al Skodowski, senior vice president and director of LEED® and sustainability for Houston-based Transwestern. “More often now, the owners are coming to us.”

A six-time Energy Star award winner, Transwestern is educating and assisting owners about sustainability at its 595 properties across the country. On Earth Day, it introduced “Ready…Set…GREEN,” a year-round program dedicated to educating building tenants and its own staff on ways to reduce their environmental footprint. But this effort is just one of several programs and services to assist its tenants with sustainability.

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