Whitman will be joined by Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk at the 3 p.m. ceremony at Harwood International Center Phase II, also known as the Centex Building, located at 2728 N. Harwood. Doug Walker, president of Harwood Management Services and Robert Van Cleave, president and CEO of Centex Construction Co. Inc., will be accepting the Energy Star designation. Harwood also is being recognized as a charter member from the state for its Energy Star participation. The developer had been named Energy Star partner in 2000 and holds the distinction of being the leading Dallas developer in the program.

According to Harwood, it is the first Energy Star developer to receive a near-perfect score in the program's benchmarking process. To date, Harwood has 589,233 sf of commercial office space in five Energy Star-designated buildings registered in the program.

Today's Energy Star designations will be conferred upon the one-year-old Harwood International Center Phase IV, a class-A, 220,661-sf office structure at 2828 N. Harwood; 5401 N. Central Expressway, 46,597 sf that delivered in 1982; Oaks on Turtle Creek, 59,791 sf built in 1981 at 2929 Carlisle; and the 86,178-sf Harrington Place, built in 1983 at 1700 Alma Rd. in Plano. Harwood's fifth Energy Star building is the 176,384-sf Centex Building.