April 23, 2010
Companies Going Dark Smart in 2009
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Air Zone International / Carl H. Duke
Behringer Harvard
Billipp/Portwest L.P.
BMS Management, Inc.
Brookfield Properties
Cameron Management
CapStar Commercial
CB Richard Ellis, Inc.
CenterPoint Energy
Central Management
Chevron
City of Houston
City of Sugar Land
Crescent Real Estate Equities, LLC
Cushman & Wakefield of Texas, Inc.
Dienna Nelson Augustine Company
Ellman Realty
EPEC Realty
ExxonMobil
FC Tower Property Partners, LP
Franklin Post Oak Ltd./Tanglewood Property Management Co.
FSP Energy Tower One Limited Partnership/Mac Haik
Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council
Granite Properties
Greystone Asset Management
Griffin Partners
Halliburton Company
Heritage Plaza Property Services
Hines
Humble ISD
Houston ISD
Houston Rockets / Toyota Center
JPMorgan Chase
Koswood Investments Corporation
Lamesa Properties, Limited
Lincoln Property Company
Marathon Oil
Means Knaus Partners, LP
Memorial City Mall
Memorial Hermann Hospital System
MetroNational
Moody Rambin
Navisys Group
PM Realty Group, L.P.
Prime Electric
Richmond Honan Property Management, LLC.
SCI Management
Senterra
Sentinal Real Estate Corporation
Shell
Shorenstein Realty Services, LP
Solvay North America, LLC
Spectra Energy
Spire Realty
Stream Realty
St. Joseph Medical Center
Sunchase American
Tanglewood Property Management Co.
Tarantino Properties, Inc.
Texas Tower Limited
The American Pediatric Society and the Society for Pediatric Research
The Appelt Company
The Audley Society
The Woodlands Commercial Properties Co., L.P.
Town Center Development Company, L.P.
Transwestern Commercial Services
Universal Health Realty Income Trust, LP/PM Realty Group
Vanderbilt Square
Walton Houston Galleria Office, L.P.
Wells Real Estate Funds
Woodforest National Bank
Yancey Hausman
2009 Signage Competition
Page Southerland Page, LLP
WHR
Abel Design Group
Gensler
E3 Electric
Morris Architects
HOKWinner: Page Southerland Page, LLP
Runner-Up: Abel Design Group
Lights Out Houston
The "Energy Capital of the World" has made a sustained commitment to become the "Energy Conservation Capital" by turning off the lights on April 23, 2010. LightsOutHouston started in 2008 as a city-wide commitment to energy efficiency by commercial building owners and their tenants. The goal of the program has expanded to establish a sustained reduction in the use of non-essential electricity by all buildings throughout the Greater Houston area. Participants are asked to sign a pledge of their commitment to energy conservation.
Security lighting, any obstruction lighting, emergency lighting and lights in occupied offices will remain lit.
When: Friday, April 23, 2010 at 10PM
Where: Houston's Downtown and other areas of Greater Houston
Who: All Class A, B and C office buildings in downtown and all government-owned buildings (excludes hotels, streetlights, etc).
Why:
- To raise awareness among office building operators and tenants to go LIGHTS OUT when the office is not occupied.
- To develop operating procedures, by the property owners and tenants, that change today's lighting habits, including working with janitorial service companies and building security to implement procedures to turn off lights when personnel is not present.
- To establish a sustained reduction in the use of non-essential electricity in commercial buildings. The downtown area has approximately 35 million square feet of office space. It is estimated that by eliminating just 50% of the lights routinely left on overnight and on the weekends, we can save 8.4M KW-Hours annually. That equals to almost $1 million annually. This is enough energy to power more than 600 Houston area homes for a year!
- To change Houstonians' habits at home by also remembering to turn off lights.
If you are interested in participating, please sign the pledge or email us at lightsout@houston.org.
Downtown Houston in Process of Going Lights Out – 9:45 PM, April 24, 2009
Panoramic
2008 LightsOutHouston avoided 43,000 tons of CO2, which is equal to taking about 7,500 passenger vehicles off the road. The electricity saved is enough to power 4,600 average Texas homes for a year.
