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About Lights Out Houston

Just in time for Earth Week 2008, the “Energy Capital of the World” launched a commitment to become the “Energy Conservation Capital” by turning off the lights.

Top property owners and their tenants, in conjunction with the Greater Houston Partnership, the City of Houston, Central Houston, Inc. and CenterPoint Energy, announced the launch of “Lights Out Houston.” The program is a commitment to energy efficiency and includes wide participation by building owners and their tenants. The goal of the program is to establish a sustained reduction in the use of non-essential electricity in commercial buildings. Participating property owners and tenants signed a pledge of their commitment to energy conservation.

Over 104.8 million square feet (36.6 million square feet in downtown) and 100 companies participated in this conservation and awareness initiative. Data was collected and evaluated to determine the initial impact of the program and results can be viewed here. The initial LightsOutHouston weekend showed a total savings of about $55,000 or 495,000 kilowatt hours of electricity, enough to power 35 homes for a year.

Participating property owners and managers are adopting varied energy efficiency measures and operating procedures as a result of this initiative including:

  • adjusting hours of janitorial staff
  • training janitorial staff to turn off lights as work is completed
  • resetting lighting control systems
  • reviewing lighting schedules
  • asking vendors and tenants to turn off lights when not in office
  • reducing hours on interior and exterior lighting systems

LightsOutHouston is committed to the goal of saving energy by encouraging individuals to turn off non-essential electricity.

Downloads

Learn more about Lights Out Houston by downloading the following:
Lights Out Houston program brief
Presentation
Earth Hour poster
Lights Out Houston poster

Houston goes smart and dark in 2008

Projected Annual Savings

The Following are some of the companies that went Dark Smart in 2008:

  • 1111 Bagby Investor LP
    1225 North Loop Investments, Inc. / CB Richard Ellis
    4900 Woodway Associates, L.P. / Fidelis Realty Partners
    55 Waugh LP / Holmes Investments
    ABPF Riverway Ltd. / American Ventures Realty
    American National Insurance / CB Richard Ellis
    Barnhart Interests, Inc.
    Behringer Harvard
    BMS Management, Inc.
    BNIM Architects/Leo Kozadinos
    Brookfield Properties
    Cameron Management
    CB Richard Ellis
    Central Management, Inc.
    Chevron
    City of Houston
    City of Sugar Land
    Coast Range Investments / Coast Range Property Management
    Craig Koopersmith / Pete Schmeisser
    Creekstone Properties
    Crescent Real Estate Equities, L.P.
    Crimson Services, LLC
    Cushman & Wakefield of Texas, Inc.
    Dienna Nelson Augustine Company
    El Paso Corporation
    ExxonMobil
    Four Properties
    Franklin Street Properties / CB Richard Ellis
    Franklin Street Properties/Mac Haik Management
    Fretz 420 Main, Ltd
    Global Property Management
    Glory WPC I / PM Realty Group
    Granite Properties
    Griffin Partners
    Group 1 Automotive
    GSA
    Halliburton / John Scheibelhut
    Harry Gendel Architects
    Hines
    Houston Astros
    Houston Business Development, Inc.
    Humble Independent School District
    IBC Bank / Senterra Real Estate Group, LLC
    JCS/NASA
    John Scheibelhut/Global Property
    JPMorgan Chase
    PM Realty/Kan Am/1000 Main
    Kathy Douglass
    KBS REIT / KBS Realty Advisors / PM Realty Group
    Lamesa Properties & The Appelt Group
    Manhattan Construction Company
    Maritime Pension Fund / CB Richard Ellis
    McCord Development/The Offices at Pin Oak Park
    MetroNational
    Moody Rambin Interests
    Navisys Group
    Parkway Properties Inc.
    Plan B MOB, LP / Stonehenge Management, LLC
    Realty Associates Fund VII, LP / CB Richard Ellis
    Rice University
    Scorpion Properties Ltd. / PM Realty Group
    Solvay North America / Senterra
    St. Joseph Medical Center
    Tanglewood Property Management Company
    The Lionstone Group
    The Woodlands Commercial Properties company / PM Realty Group
    Thomas Properties Group
    Trammell Crow/CBRE
    Transwestern
    UBS/CB Richard Ellis
    Unilev Management
    Upper Kirby District Center
    Walton Houston Galleria Office, L.P. / CB Richard Ellis
    Wells Real Estate Funds
    Woodforest / PM Realty Group
    Younan Properties

2008 Signage Competition

First Entry PageSoutherlandPage
HOK HOK
Third Entry BNIM Architects
Fourth Entry Morris Architects
Fifth Entry Studio Red Architects
Sixth Entry E3 Electric
Seventh Entry Gensler
Eighth Entry Kirksey
Nineth Entry WHR Architects

       Winner: Gensler
       Runner-Up: HOK



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