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The Newsletter for Pennzoil Place Tenants 1st & 2nd Quarter 2016 Issue Iconic Pennzoil Place Wins Local ‘The Outstanding Building of the Year’ Award! ennzoil Place is the proud winner of the 2015/2016 PHouston Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) The Outstanding Building of the Year (TOBY) Award in the Over One Million From The Manager The From Square Feet Category. Members of hat a great time the hard working Transwestern prop- for Pennzoil Place! erty management team received the For those that may prestigious award at the Houston TOBY W not know, in January we won Award dinner in January. Houston BOMA’s local TOBY (The Outstanding Building of Each year, the TOBY is awarded to the the Year) Award! This was only highest scoring building in each of possible through the efforts in 15 categories, beginning at the local tenant programs, community level. The categories consist of five team. Judges are introduced to the score of 85, Pennzoil Place easily outreach, energy reduction, square footage awards ranging from building’s energy efficient systems, received these coveted bonus points. and environmental initiatives, under 100,000 square feet to over tenant amenities, and environmentally with great success; along with a Congratulations to the Transwestern lot of work and help from many one million square feet, along with friendly features during the tour. Pennzoil Place management team vendors and our great Pennzoil categories for medical, corporate, Among other prerequisites, each for garnering the TOBY Award. The Place tenants! A special thanks historic, low-rise and mid-rise subur- competing building must bench- team worked hard to prepare for the goes out to all team members ban office park, government, reno- mark energy usage through the EPA competition while completing dai- who contributed to winning this vated, retail, industrial office park, and year’s TOBY Award and making ENERGY STAR® website. Buildings with ly building operations and providing an Earth Award category. Pennzoil Place a great place an energy benchmark score of 60 the high standards of tenant service to be. Since winning the TOBY, Local judging consists of a building or higher receive additional points. Pennzoil Place tenants have come to we’ve completed the renova- inspection by a panel of judges guid- Having received the 2016 ENERGY expect. tion of all elevator interiors, host- ed by the property management STAR designation with a benchmark ed our most successful E-Cycle drive to-date, inaugurated our “Cookies and Coffee” lobby In This Issue event, and hosted our most successful blood drive in recent Pennzoil Place Team Member Highlights; Which Wich Page 2 years. Winning Pennzoil Place Tenants!; Tenants Enjoy Cookies & Coffee; Earth Day Event; Please check out the remain- Thank You For Giving!; Upcoming Blood Drive Page 3 der of our news in this edition, LEED Dynamic Plaque - Performance Monitoring & More; 1st Quarter 2016: Together and look for upcoming Pennzoil We’ve Recycled...; Houston’s Official July 4th Celebration Page 4 Place events in the Building Summertime at Miller Outdoor Theatre; Houston Ballet, Alley Theatre, TUTS & Calendar on Page 4! Broadway Across America Special Offers Page 5 Jacob Roberts Contact Information; Building Calendar; Enjoy City Hall Farmers Market This Summer; Property Manager Hurricane Preparedness Page 6 Transwestern Pennzoil Place Team Member Highlights Thank You, Day Cleaning Crew! Lead Engineer Paul Gregoire ead Engineer Paul Gregoire has been with the Pennzoil LPlace Property Management Team since 2010. Paul is responsible for our HVAC water treatment pro- gram and Central Plant operations. He began his engineering career here after working in utility construc- tion. Paul’s hard work, dedication and attention to detail recently earned his promotion to Lead Engineer. Congratulations, Paul! ISS Employee of the Month lexis Moreno is the Pennzoil ennzoil Place would like to thank our ISS Janitorial daytime crew (pictured Place, May 2016 janitorial staff left to right): Assistant Day Supervisor Jose Bonilla, Day Supervisor Employee of the Month. Alexis Humberto Rosales, Rosa Reyes, Celestina Rodriguez, Oscar Mora, A P joined the ISS day staff earlier this year. Elvira Gonzalez, Augusto Perez, Philemon “Bibi” Bibbins, and Project Among other duties, he oversees the Manager Juan De La Cruz. We appreciate your service and dedication in exterior glass cleaning, maintaining serving our tenants and keeping Pennzoil Place beautiful! our iconic building’s Class ‘A’ appear- ance. His personality and hard work in Security Officer/Shift Supervisor Jonathan Barber his few short months here are worthy of mentioning, and we congratulate him on this award. ecurity Officer Jonathan Barber was born and raised Sin Chicago, Illinois where he attended Dunbar Vocational Academy, majoring in Television Production. After moving to Langston, Oklahoma, Mr. Barber attended Langston University, where he graduat- ed with a degree in Music Education in 2005. Officer Barber became a member of the Pennzoil Place Security Staff in 2013 and has shown a strong work ethic during his time here, working his way up from a Security Officer posi- tion over-night to Morning Shift Supervisor. 2 Winning Pennzoil Place Tenants! Tenants Enjoy Cookies & Coffee; Earth Day Event he Transwestern Pennzoil Place property management office held a drawing for two iPad Air 2s! Each tenant that completed the LEED TTransportation Survey was entered into the drawing for the covet- ed prizes. Congratulations to our winners: Keeley Lombardo with Munsch Members of the Transwestern Pennzoil Place property management team Hardt Kopf & Harr, PC (pictured above, left) and Todd Burnell with greeted tenants with cookies and coffee in the lobby on Friday, February Houstonian Lite Health Club (above, right.) More than 1,000 surveys were 26th to give everyone’s Go Texan Day a kick-start. completed by our great tenants! Tenant participation in the completion of the survey is another step in the building’s LEED Dynamic Plaque re-certifi- cation process. What is the LEED Dynamic Plaque? Check out the article on Page 4 for information about this environmental performance monitoring and benchmarking program. Congratulations to the Toys for Tots Drop-Off Drawing winner - Veronica Smith with Seyfarth Shaw (pictured right.) Veronica won 4 tickets to the Texans vs. Jaguars game in January! Congratulations also to Lisa Pollock with Wolf Family Management - Lisa won the drawing for completing The Pennzoil Place Transwestern property management team took a min- the Tenant Satisfaction Survey and ute during the Earth Day Electronics Recycling Drive in April to pose for a received four tickets to the Texans vs. meaningful photo. We think everyone got the message - the drive was the Patriots game in December. most successful recycling event hosted at Pennzoil Place so far! Thank You For Giving! Upcoming Blood Drive The Gulf Coast Regional Tuesday, August 2 Blood Center and area pa- 8:30 am – 2:30 pm tients thank you for Giving Please visit www.giveblood.org the Gift of Life! and login to Digital Donor to make an appointment. Enter Thirty-five units were donat- sponsor code V723. Tenants may th ed during the May 10 also register by contacting Abby Pennzoil Place Blood Drive, Johnston at 713.224.5930, emailing potentially saving 105 lives! [email protected], or by signing-up at the Transwestern Look for information about property management office, Suite Gensler & Associates Facilities Manager Lisa Bench was gifted with the next Pennzoil Place 100 (across from the escalators.) Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo tickets for the Billy Currington con- Blood Drive, and another Appointments are available on a cert. Lisa took her granddaughter, Lily, and the two had a great time. opportunity to Give the Gift first-come, first-serve basis. Walk-ins Lisa graciously shared these photos of their fun evening together. of Life, in the ad to the right! will be taken only if time permits. 3 LEED® Dynamic Plaque - Performance Monitoring & More 1st Quarter 2016: Together, We’ve Recycled... ennzoil Place garnered the prestigious Leadership in Energy and Environmental P 1st Quarter Recycling Totals Design (LEED) Gold certification in 2011. Under the normal LEED process, 53 Tons Recycled properties must go through a re-cer- Resources Saved Trees 902 tification process every five years. In Yards of Landfill 186 keeping with ownership and manage- Pounds of Pollution 3,184 ment’s forward thinking, energy con- Gallons of Oil 24,603 servation and environmental initia- Gallons of Water 371,459 tives and building improvements over more comfortable. The powerful Kilowatts of Electricity 217,827 the years, the Pennzoil Place team is performance software enables users Materials Recycled using the cutting edge LEED Dynamic to track current and historic perfor- (Pounds) Plaque building performance mon- mance, input and update data, Shredding 55,800 Paper 42,000 itoring and scoring platform for its view trends, and manage projects. Cardboard 7,580 2016 LEED Gold re-certification. The data collected through the LEED Plastics 460 42% of Waste What Is LEED & The LEED Dynamic Plaque software is applied Aluminum 40 Diverted from Dynamic Plaque? toward LEED re-certification, allowing Landfills Governed by the U.S. Green Building properties to conveniently re-certify Council® (USGBC), LEED is an interna- each year. tionally recognized program that pro- How Does LEED Certification vides third-party verification of green Benefit The Building, Its buildings and equips building owners Tenants & The Environment? and operators with a framework for LEED buildings are more efficient, identifying and implementing practi- leave a smaller carbon footprint, cal and measurable green building and provide a more healthful work- design, construction, operations and ing environment. Again, the higher maintenance solutions. Participation the level of certification, the greater in the voluntary LEED process demon- the benefits for the tenants and the strates leadership, innovation, envi- environment. LEED Gold buildings ronmental stewardship and social consume 25% less energy, use 11% responsibility.
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