Healthier Energy Efficient Buildings
Owners and tenants alike benefit from improvements in energy efficiency, namely reducing costs while improving indoor work environments. The Energy Alliance of North America recommends focusing on the basics first, such as improving air quality, lighting and replacing or retrofitting older technologies that waste energy and hamper productivity.
Prior to Covid demand for space matched or exceeded supply. This coupled with the fact that most tenants pay for their own energy directly, gave little incentive for landlords to adopt conservation measures. Covid has reduced demand and owners wishing attract new tenants may gain a competitive edge by upgrading their properties.
Conserving Energy Can Mean Big Savings
Energy saving advances are part of the “Smart Building” trend. Networks of sensors continuously send a stream of occupancy, temperature, lighting, HVAC data to a cloud based neural network driven by API programs. In turn the APIs direct building controls within the building’s infrastructure, offer real-time response to operator queries, deliver management reports and SMS exception alerts to designated responders whenever key infrastructure falls outside normal operating parameters. Many of today’s device sensors and controllers are wireless, making them ideal for installation in existing buildings.
Zero Cost Projects
"ECM" projects don’t require Cash Outlays, instead Financing is accomplished with cash-positive contracts by which the payment terms are smaller than the value of the ongoing energy savings. Project paybacks are generally within 18 to 36 months.
Making Your Indoor Environment Continuously Visible
Helps you to quickly see areas that are underutilized, require HVAC rebalancing or would benefit from thermal or shade blinds, etc. This enhances occupant wellbeing, improves infrastructure longevity, reduces breakdowns and maintenance.
An Efficient, Superior Space Attracts Tenants
One of the biggest advantages to landlords of efficient buildings is attracting good, long-term tenants. A comfortable efficient space leads to better productivity and reduced costs, this in turn leads to greater demand for the property and better margins for property owners.
Improved Building Reliability:
Green Management will make your building’s energy consumption visible and deliver the tools to locally or remotely monitor building infrastructure. Continuous M&V “monitoring and verification” technology ensures your building(s) are operating at peak efficiency and that your tenants have no complaints.
Benefits of Renewable Energy
Renewables such as rooftop solar PV or heat can be installed to assist energy supply help reduce costs and boost the halo of your brand.
Institutional Sector Buildings
Tax supported infrastructure should serve as a model of financial prudence, good stewardship and societal leadership. The financial and environmental benefits from energy conservation cannot be overstated and should not be overlooked.
Benefits of Renewable Energy
Renewables such as solar panels for either electricity or heat can be installed to assist supply while helping to reduce costs.
An Efficient, Superior Space Attracts Tenants
One of the biggest advantages to owners with efficient buildings is attracting good, long-term tenants. A comfortable efficient space leads to better productivity and reduced costs, this in turn leads to greater demand for the property and better margins for property owners.
Building Operation Reliability
Green Management will help you make energy consumption visible and deliver the tools to monitor building infrastructure performance while reducing waste. Continuous M&V technology verifies efficient energy usage, and can include SMS alerts so you’re always confident that your building is performing optimally and your tenants are continuously satisfied.
Free Survey
Before we can start the process of reducing your energy consumption, we need to understand the basics of how your building and operations perform and what potential opportunities exist. If the results of our free survey indicate that there is a high probability that we can reduce your energy bill by at least 15% with a payback of 2.5 years of less we will recommend and quote a detailed energy audit.
Audit & Consult
After completing the free survey we're ready to discuss the focus, scope and cost of an energy audit. Without an energy audit by certified energy auditors using Monitor & Verification technology'M&V' technologies you will be unable to see and understand how to efficiently and effectively reach your potential energy savings. The audit will prioritize the projects that cost the least with the shortest paybacks.
Our Performance Guarantee:
If the results of our audit cannot achieve a minimum of 20% energy reduction within 2.5 years or less the price of the audit will be refunded.
Install & Verify
Your 'ECM'* projects do not have to be done all at once. We start by installing the "lowest hanging fruit" but frequently adjust the sequence to accommodate your priorities. GMG design-builds all projects in consultation with you and only subcontracts installation to licensed professional trades. We manage and verify all installations to ensure that they are to code and operate flawlessly. As each project segment is completed the monitoring equipment used for the audit is left in place for a minimum of 24 days to verify that the energy savings achieved match or exceed those that were predicted by the audit.
Continuous Cloud Services
Because it is almost impossible to manage what you can't see we recommend that the M&V cloud connected equipment remain installed.
M&V technology allows you several advantages:
1. Real time view of equipment performance.
2. Historical database documenting compliance to regulations specific to your industry.
3. Baseline performance criteriaon which to set 'SMS' exception reporting and alerts
"ECM" Energy Conservation Management
“Building Intelligence” sensors and controls forming an automated and continuous supervisory system
"M&V" Monitoring & Verification (usually cloud based)
"SMS" Pre established criteria that triggers an alert to a designated "smartphone" or other system
"API" Application programing Interface based on database content