Eugenia Gregorio

Eugenia Gregorio led the strategy, content, and design process for The Tower Companies' first-ever Corporate Responsibility Report. This report is a blueprint that the Tower Team hopes others will put into practice, so everyone's united efforts deliver a sustainable and healthy future in which everyone thrives.

Eugenia Gregorio was interviewed by Bisnow to share her perspective and role on the DC Clean Energy Bill. As part of her role at Tower, she often collaborates with local government and advocacy organizations to help advance policy goals that seek to reduce carbon emissions and fight climate change. In 2019, through Eugenia's role on the Washington, D.C.’s Green Building Advisory Council, She had an opportunity to play a part in shaping one of the most ambitious pieces of clean energy… Show more

Eugenia Gregorio was interviewed by Bisnow to share her perspective and role on the DC Clean Energy Bill. As part of her role at Tower, she often collaborates with local government and advocacy organizations to help advance policy goals that seek to reduce carbon emissions and fight climate change. In 2019, through Eugenia's role on the Washington, D.C.’s Green Building Advisory Council, She had an opportunity to play a part in shaping one of the most ambitious pieces of clean energy legislation in the country. She worked with the public, private, and NGO sectors to raise awareness about the proposed bill in 2018, organized events to talk about it, and collected industry feedback to share directly with DC Council that helped ensure the legislation would be successful and mutually beneficial for all stakeholders. Show less

Real-time water monitoring is an easy-to-implement solution that allowed one building to reduce consumption by 45% in one year, saving over 1.5 million gallons of water and nearly $13,000 on the annual water bill. This session will define water management best practices and demonstrate how to optimize scheduling, identify reduction target areas, and detect faulty equipment.

As Director of Corporate Responsibility for The Tower Companies, Eugenia spoke at a Congressional Briefing on Capitol Hill in February 2016 for a panel organized by the Alliance to Save Energy alongside industry partners, IMT and DOEE. These leaders spoke about the importance of energy benchmarking, energy data access, and energy efficiency best practices. This article is a recap of the briefing.

The Tower Companies, a partner of the DOE Better Buildings Challenge, has committed to reduce both energy and water consumption 20% by 2020 for nearly 3 million SF of commercial office and multi-family residential properties. After successfully implementing a real-time energy management program with 15% use reduction since 2010, The Tower Companies decided to go beyond energy and create a water monitoring pilot project in 2015. The Team blew its goal out of the water (pun intended). Within a… Show more

The Tower Companies, a partner of the DOE Better Buildings Challenge, has committed to reduce both energy and water consumption 20% by 2020 for nearly 3 million SF of commercial office and multi-family residential properties. After successfully implementing a real-time energy management program with 15% use reduction since 2010, The Tower Companies decided to go beyond energy and create a water monitoring pilot project in 2015. The Team blew its goal out of the water (pun intended). Within a year, the team documented total water use reduction of 45% at a multi-tenant office building.

Eugenia Gregorio, Director of Corporate Responsibility, contributed to this case study on behalf of The Tower Companies. Show less

The Tower Companies is a developer and owner of multi-tenant office, multifamily, retail, and mixed-use lifestyle properties in the National Capital Area. Tower is committed to being an environmental leader in the real estate industry and is continuously striving to find opportunities to engage with stakeholders on sustainability. To help achieve this goal and attract sustainability conscious tenants, the Tower Companies pursued the first solar photovoltaic (PV) installation on a large, class A… Show more

The Tower Companies is a developer and owner of multi-tenant office, multifamily, retail, and mixed-use lifestyle properties in the National Capital Area. Tower is committed to being an environmental leader in the real estate industry and is continuously striving to find opportunities to engage with stakeholders on sustainability. To help achieve this goal and attract sustainability conscious tenants, the Tower Companies pursued the first solar photovoltaic (PV) installation on a large, class A office building in Washington, D.C.

Eugenia Gregorio provided content contributions for this case study. Show less

As a follow-up to The Green Edge, NRDC engaged with interested representatives of the commercial real estate sector to explore how property owners and developers think about GSI and conducted a workshop to develop and prioritize recommendations for implementing GSI at commercial development sites. GSI includes green roofs, rain gardens, cisterns, and other mechanisms that mimic natural hydrologic functions or that otherwise capture runoff on-site for productive use.

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As a follow-up to The Green Edge, NRDC engaged with interested representatives of the commercial real estate sector to explore how property owners and developers think about GSI and conducted a workshop to develop and prioritize recommendations for implementing GSI at commercial development sites. GSI includes green roofs, rain gardens, cisterns, and other mechanisms that mimic natural hydrologic functions or that otherwise capture runoff on-site for productive use.

Eugenia Gregorio was a participant in this workshop that resulted in this report and guidance by NRDC. Show less

The nation’s capital is bursting with sustainable workplaces. The next frontier? Green apartments. When Washington, D.C., passed 100 million square feet of LEED-certified building space in September, it became only the fourth city in the United States to hit the benchmark.
Interviews and quotes from Eugenia Gregorio and Sri Velamati of The Tower Companies are included.

The District was the first jurisdiction in the country to require private buildings to measure and report their energy performance. Analysis of the 2013 reported data indicates that DC commercial buildings continue to be exceptionally efficient and save money.
Eugenia Gregorio contributed a quote for this press release.

Eugenia Gregorio, Director of Corporate Responsibility, was featured in a blog post from Montgomery County about Energy Benchmarking.

Even the best commercial buildings have “operational stray” – sensors break, schedules are wrong for the season, and switches are set to manual. NRDC’s 2013 report on The Tower Companies’ Real-Time Energy Management project provided detail on how Tower worked with AtSite to identify and correct stray in three of Tower’s commercial office buildings, reduced the costs of the program while producing savings, determined other values for Tower, and established lessons learned for others exploring… Show more

Even the best commercial buildings have “operational stray” – sensors break, schedules are wrong for the season, and switches are set to manual. NRDC’s 2013 report on The Tower Companies’ Real-Time Energy Management project provided detail on how Tower worked with AtSite to identify and correct stray in three of Tower’s commercial office buildings, reduced the costs of the program while producing savings, determined other values for Tower, and established lessons learned for others exploring similar programs.

In this paper, we review certain key findings from the NRDC report and provide information from Tower and AtSite that offer a glimpse of the second year of the on-going program. Preliminary information (collected by Tower and AtSite) suggests the energy savings seen in the first year appear to persist through year two using similar methods as described in the NRDC Report. Based on Tower and AtSite reports of progress working with building teams, we provide an update to certain lessons learned, with an emphasis on engaging building staff.
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This case study examines the energy management initiative implemented by Tower Companies, Inc. in three large, multi-tenant office buildings it owns and operates in downtown Washington, D.C.

This case study found that Tower's real-time energy management initiative achieved a 13.2 percent reduction in energy use over three buildings, showing that substantial gains are possible when building owners operate their buildings with attention devoted to reducing wasted energy use.