Kilroy Realty Corporation announced today that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has for the seventh year in a row recognized KRC as an ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year. In addition, the EPA has also recognized KRC for the fifth time with its Sustained Excellence designation.
EPA’s annual ENERGY STAR Awards honor organizations that have made outstanding contributions to protecting the environment through superior energy efficiency. Since 1992, ENERGY STAR and its partners have saved over four trillion kWh of electricity, while achieving broad emission reductions, and in 2018 alone helped Americans avoid over $3.5 billion in energy costs.
Trumark Communities recently announced that Wallis Ranch, the 184-acre master planned community in Dublin, CA, was named “Master Planned Community of the Year” at the 54th Annual Gold Nugget Awards presented by PCBC, the largest annual homebuilding trade show in the Western United States. The awards gala, held on Thursday, June 29, 2017, marks Trumark’s trifecta of wins for the prestigious title at the building industry’s three most esteemed annual awards ceremonies. In addition to the Gold Nugget Awards, Wallis Ranch was named “Master Planned Community of the Year” by the 2017 National Association of Home Builders’ (NAHB) Nationals Awards and the 2017 Building Industry Association (BIA) Excellence Awards.
Recognizing the best in community improvement through exceptional concepts in design, planning and development, the Gold Nugget Awards are a highlight of the annual two-day PCBC Conference held at the San Diego Convention Center, which draws more than 10,000 respected industry professionals across North America and beyond.Read More
Trippel Survey & Research, LLC conducted its fifteenth annual survey to obtain evaluations from corporate relocation managers regarding their level of satisfaction with temporary housing service providers.
For the second year in a row, Nomad Temporary Housing achieved the highest average survey score, rating higher than all other national and regional temporary housing brands. Nomad is also the only brand with all survey scores in the 8 – 10 range, on a scale of 1 – 10. In addition, Nomad has also scored at the top of the Trippel survey in Net Satisfaction for 2016 and 2015.Read More
Photo from left to right: Dietrich Schmitz (Washington State Housing Finance); Mark Leingang, Tim Bower and Paul Poirier (Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Northwest Real Estate); Krystal Meiners (Green Canopy Homes).
Green Genius Award Goes to Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Northwest Real Estate received the Green Genius Top Listing Company Award at the 4th Annual Built Green Conference in Bothell, WA.
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Northwest Real Estate agents Tim Bower (Burien), Sunny Tumber (Burien), Paul Poirier (West Seattle), Mark Leingang (Bellevue) and Ken Arkills (West Seattle) accepted the award on behalf of the company. These award-winning agents have partnered with Green Canopy Homes to promote green building and sustainability in the Pacific Northwest community.
“I applaud Green Canopy Homes for creating sustainability-focused communities and educating others about green-building practices,” says Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Northwest Real Estate president and CEO, Jason Waugh. “And I appreciate the efforts our brokers put forth in promoting sustainability in the Pacific Northwest.”Read More
The Luxury Real Estate Board of Regents continues to expand its reach with the newest appointment of Brazen Sotheby’s International Realty to represent the city of Bellevue in Washington State. Each member of the Board of Regents is selected based on their leadership and enduring accomplishments in the real estate industry and are armed with an exclusive array of impressive marketing tools and solutions.
The Brazen name has been renowned in luxury real estate for over 37 years, Read More
Redmond-based ABODA, has recently won the “Superior Quality Achievement Award (Relocation)” from Graebel Relocation at its recent 14th Annual Relocation Alliance Conference in Aurora, Colorado.
Each year, Graebel recognizes leading companies that have provided extraordinary service, value and excellence in performance to its relocation clients.
Lee Curtis, President, ABODA Corporate Housing
Lee Curtis, President of ABODA Corporate Housing, who accepted the award at the Graebel presentation ceremony, noted customer satisfaction surveys completed by corporate employees who were relocating led to the selection of ABODA.
“When an award is based on how Graebel clients feel about ABODA and all the services we provide, it is especially heartening,” said Curtis. “This honor is a great tribute to all the employee owners of ABODA who take personal pride in setting the bar for superior customer service as they have for over 25 years.”
The worldwide Graebel conference drew 150 top relocation executives, including 90 Graebel Alliance Partners from 39 countries. The Graebel Relocation Alliance awards ceremony was held at the Denver Art Museum in downtown Denver, Colorado.
About the Graebel Relocation Alliance
At the dawn of the 21st Century a by-invitation member consortium of twenty global moving and storage (removals) firms was brought together under the mantle, The Graebel Alliance, with the objective for the moving industry’s respected company ownership and executives to collaborate and to share best-in-class service practices and programs. Renamed the Graebel Relocation Alliance the membership has expanded to include leading global relocation and mobility service firms in 2005. In its fourteenth year, the Graebel Relocation Alliance member companies total two hundred and are found on six continents.
