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building, collecting and analyzing the
building metrics.
“The reason I really am proud of
that is because there are a lot of
different attributes of building sys-
tems that dovetail into the energy
management system,” she said. “For
every multimillion capital project,
energy savings is always the goal.”
Since implementing the technol-
ogy, building engineers, led by Tallent
and Andrews, have made operational
changes and implemented a policy
known as “trim and response,” in
order to make the building more effi-
cient. In the 14 months of operation,
1670’s Energy Star score has risen one
point every month, and Xcel Energy
awarded the building an achievement
award for the energy it saved.
“If you show me a variance number,
whether its income or expenses, that
number tells you a story,” Purviance-
Anderson said. “I don’t want to just
know what makes up that number. I
want to know why it’s there, I want
to know what the trend is and I want
to know what its telling me about the
building.”
This information aids the third
management priority shift: report-
ing. “We are always reporting,” she
said. “If we’re not reporting, we’re
reporting on a report that we just
reported on. Oh yes, the demands are
extensive. And how many different
ways can you explain one variance is
crazy.”
However, truth be told, this analysis
is her favorite part of the job.
“I think a lot of people would prob-
ably recoil at this, but I love the
financial aspect,” she said. “I love to
analyze what the building is doing.
This building is a living, breathing
being, and it changes every day.” Hav-
ing the ability to drill down into the
metrics to understand what they can
change and improve, and then see
the results is fun, she said.
This desire to understand the
backstory flows into her personal
life as well. Living in Parker with her
husband, Alan, Purviance-Anderson
admits that her personal passion is
genealogy, which she’s been inter-
ested in since the late ’70s. She sticks
strictly to direct ancestry. Once she
tracks down a relative, she does
everything she can to learn about
the era that he lived, about where he
lived and about what was going on
historically at the time. “So I can kind
of get to know them and bring them
to life,” she said.
Whether discussing the imple-
mentation of energy-efficiency ret-
rofits, free tenant safety trainings or
the tenant improvement projects,
Purviance-Anderson always brings it
back to the building’s ownership and
investors.
“This group is just incredibly sup-
portive,” she said of 1670 Broadway
Investors. “They make us feel like
we’re part of the team effort and it
makes us want to keep doing more
and more to do well for them.”
The building has enjoyed the same
ownership since 1988 and, since
opening in 1980, has only had four
property managers. She tells her staff
often that this is a unique situation
and one that they will probably never
experience again.
“I am so attached to this building,
it would be like losing a part of me if
I left,” she said. “It’s dangerous to get
too attached to a piece of real estate,
but this building is personal.”
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A team photo at the 2015 BOMA TOBY awards ceremony. 1670 Broadway won the TOBY award for 500,000 to 1 million square feet.
