Energy Auditing l gathering the information for positive change
entire building auditing
An essential part of developing an energy management strategy is assessing information on the energy efficiency of the stock as it is now, and where it might be after carrying out improvements.
Auditing is also an important activity to carry out in the early stages of energy performance certification, commissioning an audit early can speed up the process of certification before it holds up a transaction or even worse incurs penalty.
Property/Facilities Audit
To audit your facilities is very important to understand where your utilities are being utilized. Commonly clients make assumptions based upon what can be seen and few give thought to equipment behind closed doors or the magnitude that several small power devices can have when all switched on at the same time. The outcome of a property audit can sometimes be shocking, it can focus an organizational strategy and also provided essential information to enable energy purchasing, metering strategy decisions and other areas. Once a property audit is carried out it is essential to maintain a continual record using a building log book.
plant and equipment
office equipment
Behavior and processes
Property and equipment is only one aspect of a energy audit. i-Prophets will spend time auditing firstly your processes and management actions that encourage (or don't encourage) energy efficiency and carbon reductions. We will follow this by a consisted audit of your employee base at all levels, both permanent and temporary staff. This audit is essential to understand if actions made as a result of and energy survey will have the desired effect.
A behavioral audit will also create an important key performance indicator as a measure of success through change.
Energy Accounting
Finally i-Prophets will make an official audit of your organizations energy accounts. Considering purchasing policies, tariff structure for all utilities (including water) and identify potential areas for savings through re-negotiation or other action.