Beacon Capital Partners Earns 11th Consecutive ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence Award
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Boston, March 28, 2024 -- Beacon Capital Partners (“Beacon”) received the 2024 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year -- Sustained Excellence Award for its continued leadership and commitment to successfully improving and optimizing energy efficiency across its portfolio. Beacon has been recognized as an ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year for the past 13 years, and has earned the Sustained Excellence award, the highest designation bestowed by the ENERGY STAR program, for 11 consecutive years.
“As a leading real estate developer, owner, manager, and employer, our responsibility includes a commitment to energy efficiency and sustainability throughout our portfolio. It is one of the hallmarks of how we transform buildings,” said Beacon Capital Partners Managing Director Al Scaramelli. “We are proud that our efforts and innovation in creating energy efficient buildings continue to be recognized by ENERGY STAR.”
ENERGY STAR award winners lead their industries in the production, sale, and adoption of energy-efficient products, homes, buildings, services, and strategies. These efforts have saved more than 5 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity over the past three decades.
“I congratulate this year’s ENERGY STAR award winners for their innovation and leadership, in delivering cost-effective energy efficient solutions that create jobs, address climate change, and contribute to a healthier environment for all,” said EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan.
2023 ENERGY STAR award winners are selected from a network of thousands of ENERGY STAR partners. For a complete list of winners and more information about ENERGY STAR’s awards program, visit energystar.gov/awardwinners.
About Beacon Capital Partners
Beacon Capital Partners (“Beacon”) is a leading private real estate investment firm, owning and operating office and life science properties. The firm has a 75-year legacy of successful real estate development, management, and transformation of workplaces. Since 1998, Beacon has raised ten commingled investment vehicles, as well as multiple joint venture vehicles and co-investments, totaling over $19 billion of equity capital commitments from public and corporate pension funds, financial institutions, endowments, foundations, and other U.S. and non-U.S. institutional investors. Today, Beacon manages over $14 billion of real estate and owns and operates a portfolio spanning more than 29 million square feet across 14 U.S. markets.
Beacon’s experienced team creates workspaces that inspire creativity, collaboration, and innovation across a broad range of tenants and industries. The team uses disciplined property selection and innovates with design-driven transformation, curated tenant amenities and experiences, and a strong focus on tenant service to create properties that attract today’s tenants. Headquartered in Boston, Beacon has offices and market-focused teams in eight major US cities.
Beacon supports building a sustainable and inclusive future. The firm has been recognized as ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year for 13 consecutive years and has certified nearly 60M sf of LEED office space. Beyond sustainability, Beacon’s Funds 7 and 8 and a portfolio of Beacon JV assets all achieved five-star ratings (top 20%) in the GRESB assessment in 2022 and Beacon has been designated as a Fitwel champion. For more information, please visit www.beaconcapital.com.
About ENERGY STAR
ENERGY STAR® is the government-backed symbol for energy efficiency, providing simple, credible, and unbiased information that consumers and businesses rely on to make well-informed decisions. Since 1992, ENERGY STAR and its partners helped American families and businesses avoid more than $500 billion in energy costs and achieve more than 4 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas reductions. More background information about ENERGY STAR’s impacts can be found at www.energystar.gov/impacts.
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