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Principal® Earns ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year Sustained Excellence Award
Fifth consecutive year of the award shows longstanding commitment to ESG standards DES MOINES, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Principal Real Estate Investors, the
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nFifth consecutive year of the award shows longstanding commitment to ESG standards\n\n DES MOINES, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nPrincipal Real Estate Investors, the real estate investment team of Principal Global Investors®, has been named an ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year Sustained Excellence award winner for the fifth consecutive year. This recognition, the highest honor among ENERGY STAR awards, is reserved for ENERGY STAR partners that demonstrate outstanding leadership and superior contributions year-over-year.\n\nA top 10 global real estate manager1, Principal has been an ENERGY STAR partner since 2009 and continues to integrate energy efficiency into its Pillars of Responsible Property Investing (PRPI) initiative. PRPI is an overarching environmental, social, and governance (ESG) framework that Principal has used since 2013 as it seeks to deliver positive financial results and ESG outcomes through asset management and fiduciary governance. In 2021, the PRPI platform was enhanced to reflect current best practices, including the expansion from three (market resilience, corporate governance, and property performance) to five guiding principles: environmental performance, occupant experience, community impact, climate resilience, and managerial excellence. These principles align to the commitment by Principal Real Estate Investors to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.\n\n“Receiving the Sustained Excellence award for the fifth consecutive year is testament to the ongoing commitment our property management team and partners have made to sustainability,” said Jennifer McConkey, managing director of ESG and operations for Principal Real Estate Investors. “With the enhanced Pillars of Responsible Property Investing as our guide, we are committed to investing in high-performing, energy-efficient properties that minimize the impact on the environment while delivering attractive returns for our clients.”\n\nENERGY Star certified buildings use an average of 35% less energy than similar buildings nationwide and have been shown to have higher occupancy and rental rates.2 Since 2008, Principal has achieved 14% energy savings, avoided more than $48 million in cumulative energy costs, and prevented more than 135 thousand metric tons of cumulative carbon dioxide emissions3. In 2021 alone, Principal achieved:\n\n\nENERGY STAR certifi...