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28 buildingoperatingmanagement SEPTEMBER 2011 guru. Transwestern sustainability services helps the organization’s property managers use the LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance (LEED-EBOM) rating system and Energy Star rating system to green their clients’ buildings. But Transwestern sustainability services also acts as a sort of side business, working in a consulting role for other customers interested in help with LEED certification, Energy Star, commissioning or an energy audit. He describes this function as a “means to an end.” Every dollar Transwestern sustainability services earns with its expertise in green is reinvested back into the company to build tools and fund other initiatives that benefit the company at large. Yet another part of Skodowski’s charge is “turning Transwestern green from the inside out,” as he puts it. That is, he makes the space Transwestern itself leases — as strictly a third-party manager with no owned space – sustainable as well. But this is no run-of-the-mill “walking the talk” story. It’s a story about how Skodowski and Transwestern, one of the largest privately owned real estate and property management firms in the country, use sustainability as a cornerstone of an effort to standardize the practices and policies for a national organization that operates on a de-centralized, regional basis and manages more than 770 properties comprising 192 million square feet. There are two main prongs of this standardization approach. One is what Skodowski calls the “good, better, best” approach to rating the level of sustainable performance of the organization’s portfolio of managed space. The other is an internal committee, of which Skodowski is a member, called the innovation and quality assurance (IQA) team. Both initiatives work toward moving Transwestern to what Skodowski says is its ultimate goal, that every building it manages meets LEED-EBOM criteria. Innovation and Quality Transwestern was founded in 1978 as a small Texas-based development company. Throughout the 1980s it Transwestern’s “Good, Better, Best” Rating System Not rated Good Better Best/LEED Certified Energy Not benchmarked or Energy Star score < 50 Energy Star score of 51- 65 and data are current Energy Star score of 66 - 74 and data are current and water is metered LEED CERTIFIED Energy Star labeled (score of 75 or above); and water is metered Water Aerators: > 1.5 gpm Toilets: > 3.5 gpf Urinals: > 1.5 gpf Aerators — 1.5 gpm Toilets — 3.5 gpf Urinals — 1.5 gpf Aerators — 1.0 gpm Toilets — 1.6 gpf Urinals — 1 gpf Must achieve 2 of 3 LEED CERTIFIED Aerators — 0.5 gpm Toilets — 1.28 gpf Urinals — 0.5 gpf Water Systems Submetered Operations and Maintenance No documented Building Operations Plan, no documented Preventive Maintenance Program Documented Building Operations Plan OR Preventive Maintenance Program Documented Building Operations Plan AND Preventive Maintenance Program LEED CERTIFIED Documented Building Operations Plan AND Preventive Maintenance Program Indoor Air Quality No Green Cleaning Program implemented Green Cleaning Program implemented OR Integrated Pest Management Program (IPM) implemented Green Cleaning AND IPM Programs implemented WITH contracts LEED CERTIFIED Includes Better plus Regular Tentant Communication Programs implemented Resources and Materials Recycling Rate: ≤ 25%. Has a current recyclinghauler OR waste-hauler contract Recycling Rate: 26% - 50%. Includes paper and cardboard AND has current recycle-hauler AND wastehauler contracts Recycling Rate: 26% - 50%. Includes Good plus 3 of these 4: plastics 1&2, glass, mercury lamps, batteries. Has current contracts with waste-, recycling-, battery/lampsand lighting haulers LEED CERTIFIED Recycling Rate: > 51% Includes Better plus recycling metal and E-wastes, or a comingled pick-up AND tenant participation in outreach programs related to sustainability
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