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It’s the “Battle of the Buildings!”

Propp Realty’s Golden Hill Office Center in Lakewood, Colorado, has been selected to participate in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA's) ENERGY STAR National Building Competition: Battle of the Buildings to help improve the energy efficiency of commercial buildings and to protect the environment. In the spirit of popular weight-loss competitions, Golden Hill Office Center will battle it out against hundreds of other buildings from across the country to reduce their waste profile through improvements in energy efficiency with help from EPA’s ENERGY STAR program.

"Once again the Golden Hill Office Center, where my District Office is located, is being recognized for its high level of energy efficiency by participating in Energy Star's Battle of the Buildings competition," stated U.S. Representative Ed Perlmutter (CO-07). "The great thing about this type of competition is that we all win. Using less energy is good for the bottom line and good for the environment. Additionally, when buildings replace windows and add insulation and renewable energy features, jobs are created that can't be outsourced."

“Propp Realty is honored to be a part of EPA's ENERGY STAR National Building Competition,” says Daryll Propp, Propp Realty Founder. "We have been committed to improving our energy efficiency for the past 30 years, and we look forward to seeing how we measure up against other buildings across the nation.”

The 2011 ENERGY STAR National Building Competition includes 245 teams from 26 different types of commercial buildings─such as retail stores, schools, hotels, and museums─that hail from 33 states and the District of Columbia. Eleven buildings are 100 years old or older, the smallest building is just over 6,000 square feet, and fifteen buildings cover more than 1 million square feet of floor space with the largest totaling nearly 3 million square feet.

As the 2011 ENERGY STAR National Building Competition spokesperson, actor John Corbett will provide energy- saving tips and encouragement through videos posted on the competition website. The competition website will also feature a flash media wall with photos of all of the competitors, a live Twitter feed, and a Competitor Forum for exchanging ideas and strategies.

“Buildings of all shapes and sizes are saving money and energy with help from EPA and ENERGY STAR,” said Jean Lupinacci, Director of EPA’s ENERGY STAR Commercial Buildings Program. “We applaud the contestants of EPA’s ENERGY STAR National Building Competition for taking action to protect the environment and save energy in the buildings where we work, play and learn.”

Competitors will measure and track their building's monthly energy consumption using EPA's ENERGY STAR online energy tracking tool, Portfolio Manager; make improvements to their building's energy performance; and share their progress. Of the initial pool of 245 competitors, a small group of buildings will be selected as finalists in July. Among the finalists, the building that demonstrates the greatest percentage-based reduction in energy use intensity will be recognized as the winner on Nov. 2, 2011.

Thousands of businesses and organizations work with EPA’s ENERGY STAR program and are saving billions of dollars and preventing millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions from entering our atmosphere each year. ENERGY STAR recently awarded a 99-point rating (out of a 100-point maximum) to the Golden Hill Office Center. Although the office complex was constructed almost 30 years ago, the ENERGY STAR score of 99 places the facility's performance in the top 2% of all buildings of its type in the country. Augmenting the Golden Hill performance is a roof-mounted solar photovoltaic system that was added in 2008.

The building systems that enable the facility's exceptional performance were originally designed by The RMH Group, a mechanical, electrical, and industrial process engineering firm that has been a tenant at Golden Hill since it was built in 1983. "Golden Hill uses technologies that are just recently being introduced into contemporary facility design," says Bill Green, president of The RMH Group.  

Watch the battle unfold: www.energystar.gov/BattleOfTheBuildings

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