SIG EARNS 2019 ENERGY STAR® PARTNER OF THE YEAR – SUSTAINED EXCELLENCE AWARD
CONTACT:
Jeff Stewart | SIG
ENERGY STAR Team Lead
jeffs@sigearth.com
404-343-3835
Atlanta, GA, April 9, 2019 – Sustainable Investment Group (SIG) is proud to announce that it received the 2019 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence Award for continued leadership and superior contributions to ENERGY STAR®. This is SIG’s 4th consecutive year for winning this award. SIG’s accomplishments will be recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. on April 11, 2019.
“We are honored and extremely proud to be recognized as an ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence Award recipient once again,” said Sustainable Investment Group’s Mechanical Engineer and Energy Star Team Lead Jeff Stewart. “ENERGY STAR is an integral component in helping our clients reach their energy efficiency and sustainability goals as well as setting target thresholds for years to come. Earning the ENERGY STAR label is a prestigious honor for high efficiency buildings, and we are proud to assist our clients in earning that distinction.”
“I applaud the 2019 ENERGY STAR Award Winners,” said EPA Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation Bill Wehrum. “Their innovation and leadership enhance America’s economic competitiveness. Reducing costly energy waste improves air quality and public health while protecting the environment.”
The highest honor among ENERGY STAR Awards is he ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence Award. The EPA presents the Sustained Excellence Award to partners that have already received ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year recognition for a minimum of three consecutive years and have gone above and beyond the criteria needed to quality for recognition. Winners hail from small, family owned businesses to Fortune 500 organizations – representing energy efficient products, services, new homes, and buildings in the commercial, industrial, and public sectors.
For a complete list of 2019 winners and more information about ENERGY STAR’s awards program, visit energystar.gov/awardwinners.
About Sustainable Investment Group
SIG is a full-service green building consulting firm that specializes in LEED, ENERGY STAR, WELL, fitwel, energy audits, commissioning, retro-commissioning, and energy modeling. SIG is comprised of a hard-working group of engineers and sustainability consultants that help commercial real estate owners, developers, and managers meet their sustainability goals. The SIG team can be reached at www.sigearth.com or 404.343.3835.
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. Thousands of industrial, commercial, utility, state, and local organizations—including more than 40 percent of the Fortune 500®—rely on their partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to deliver cost-saving energy efficiency solutions. Since 1992, ENERGY STAR and its partners helped save American families and businesses nearly 4 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity and achieve over 3 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas reductions. More background information about ENERGY STAR can be found at: energystar.gov/about.