Staff Writer
Energy Star has announced its 2015 award winners. Award winners lead their industries in the production and sale of energy-efficient products and services and in the development and adoption of strategies that provide substantial energy and money savings in residential and commercial buildings.
The following organizations received Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence awards in the energy management category:
- Allergan (Irvine, CA)
- Beacon Capital Partners, LLC (Boston, MA)
- Bentall Kennedy (Seattle, WA)
- Brandywine Realty Trust (Radnor, PA)
- CalPortland Company (Glendora, CA)
- CBRE Group (Los Angeles, CA)
- Colgate-Palmolive Company (New York, NY)
- Des Moines Public Schools (Des Moines, IA)
- DTZ (Washington, DC)
- Eastman Chemical Company (Kingsport, TN)
- Evergreen Public Schools (Vancouver, WA)
- Food Lion (Salisbury, NC)
- General Motors Company (Detroit, MI)
- Hanesbrands (Winston Salem, NC)
- Hines (Houston, TX)
- JCPenney Company (Plano, TX)
- JLL (Chicago, IL)
- Kenton County School District (Ft. Wright, KY)
- Kohl's Department Stores (Menomonee Falls, WI)
- Liberty Property Trust (Malvern, PA)
- Loudoun County Public Schools (Broadlands, VA)
- Memorial Hermann Health System (Houston, TX)
- Merck & Co. (Kenilworth, NJ)
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital (New York, NY)
- Nissan North America (Franklin, TN)
- North Penn School District (Lansdale, PA)
- PepsiCo (Purchase, NY)
- Raytheon Company (Waltham, MA)
- Saint-Gobain (Valley Forge, PA)
- Sears Holdings Corporation (Hoffman Estates, IL)
- Staples (Framingham, MA)
- The Boeing Company (Chicago, IL)
- TIAA-CREF (New York, NY)
- Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America (Erlanger, KY)
- TRANSWESTERN (Houston, TX)
- USAA Real Estate Company (San Antonio, TX)
- Verizon (New York, NY)
- Vornado Realty Trust (New York, NY)
The following organizations received Energy Star Partner of the Year awards in the energy management category:
- Bristol-Myers Squibb (New York, NY)
- Cherokee County Schools (Murphy, NC)
- Corning Incorporated (Corning, NY)
- Intertape Polymer Group (Sarasota, FL)
- Kilroy Realty Corporation (Los Angeles, CA)
- Mansfield Independent School District (Mansfield, TX)
- Parmenter (Miami, FL)
- Scott County Schools (Georgetown, KY)
- SL Green Realty Corp (New York, NY)
- The Kroger Co. (Cincinnati, OH)
- Tishman Speyer (New York, NY)
Partner of the Year awards recognize Energy Star Partner organizations that adopt a continuous energy management strategy across the organization’s entire portfolio of buildings and plants. The winners were chosen from a network of 16,000 Energy Star partners.
PepsiCo, Sears Holdings and Samsung were among the 127 recipients of the 2014 Energy Star Partner of the Year Award.