EPA Recognizes Brandywine Realty Trust With 2015 Energy Star® Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence Award

RADNOR, Pa., April 7, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Brandywine Realty Trust (NYSE: BDN) announced today that The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recognized the Company with a 2015 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence Award for continued leadership in protecting our environment through superior energy efficiency achievements.  Brandywine's accomplishments will be recognized in Washington, D.C. on April 20, 2015.

Brandywine Realty Trust, an ENERGY STAR partner since 2013, will be honored for its long-term commitment to energy efficiency.

Key accomplishments of Brandywine's award-winning energy management program include:

• 139 properties (21.5 million square feet) have earned the ENERGY STAR Label
• 70.4% of the square footage in Brandywine's 260 owned and managed properties has earned the Label at least once
• In aggregate, including re-certifications, Brandywine has earned 304 Labels in the past 3 years for our owned and managed properties

"We truly value our partnership with ENERGY STAR and it is an honor to be recognized for the third consecutive year as an ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year," said George Johnstone, Executive Vice President – Operations of Brandywine Realty Trust.  "Our property management and engineering teams remain diligent and focused on making our portfolio more energy efficient.  These efforts led to 26 new ENERGY STAR Labels and 61 re-certification Labels in 2014."

Since its inception in 1992, ENERGY STAR and its partners have helped prevent a total of more than two billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions. In 2013 alone, ENERGY STAR and its partners provided more than $12 billion in societal benefits due to reducing damages from climate change.

"Through their sustained participation with ENERGY STAR, Brandywine Realty Trust is helping American families and businesses save money, save energy, and do their part to reduce our nation's greenhouse gas emissions that fuel climate change," said EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. "I applaud Brandywine for earning EPA's highest ENERGY STAR award, the 2015 Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence Award, demonstrating a strong commitment to energy efficiency and to preserving a healthy planet for future generations."

The 2015 Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence Awards are given to a variety of organizations to recognize their contributions to reducing greenhouse gas emissions through superior energy efficiency achievements. These winners have reduced greenhouse gas emissions by setting and achieving aggressive goals, and employing innovative energy efficiency approaches. These awards recognize ongoing leadership across the ENERGY STAR program, including energy-efficient products, services, new homes, and buildings in the commercial, industrial, and public sectors.

For a complete list of 2015 winners and information, and more information about ENERGY STAR's awards program, visit www.energystar.gov/awardwinners.

About ENERGY STAR

ENERGY STAR® is the simple choice for energy efficiency.  For more than 20 years, people across America have looked to EPA's ENERGY STAR program for guidance on how to save energy, save money, and protect the environment. Behind each blue label is a product, building, or home that is independently certified to use less energy and cause fewer of the emissions that contribute to climate change. Today, ENERGY STAR is the most widely recognized symbol for energy efficiency in the world, helping families and businesses save $300 billion on utility bills, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions by two billion metric tons since 1992. Join the millions who are already making a difference at energystar.gov.

About Brandywine Realty Trust

Brandywine Realty Trust is one of the largest, publicly traded, full-service, integrated real estate companies in the United States.  Organized as a real estate investment trust and operating in select markets, Brandywine owns, leases and manages an urban, town center and transit-oriented office portfolio comprising 286 properties and 34.1 million square feet as of December 31, 2014. For more information, please visit www.brandywinerealty.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements in this release constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.  Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance, achievements or transactions of the Company and its affiliates or industry results to be materially different from any future results, performance, achievements or transactions expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.  Such risks, uncertainties and other factors relate to, among others, the Company's ability to lease vacant space and to renew or relet space under expiring leases at expected levels, the potential loss of major tenants, interest rate levels, the availability and terms of debt and equity financing, competition with other real estate companies for tenants and acquisitions, risks of real estate acquisitions, dispositions and developments, including cost overruns and construction delays, unanticipated operating costs and the effects of general and local economic and real estate conditions.  Additional information or factors which could impact the Company and the forward-looking statements contained herein are included in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2014.  The Company assumes no obligation to update or supplement forward-looking statements that become untrue because of subsequent events.

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