3th August 2009
Organisation and facility wide carbon reductions through counting
Tackling energy efficiency and carbon reductions through greater building intelligence is at the heart of i-Prophets Energy Services and its cutting edge information management system, digitalenergy.
digitalenergy is a flexible online resource where managers and occupants can monitor the energy performance of all their buildings or departments, regardless of age or size. This provides a clear picture of energy and carbon performance across all an entire portfolio large or small.
Centric to the platform of digitalenergy is the automatic production of a building logbook for each property to enable all information to be stored and updated on demand, removing the cumbersome burden of trailing through out of date Operating and Maintenance manuals for that key piece of information. With the impending Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) this will be an essential tool to manage the information required for the evidence pack.
“i-Prophets enables businesses to implement a holistic approach to managing carbon emissions and energy consumption in their buildings,” explained Richard Hipkiss, i-Prophets Sales and Marketing Director. “With energy data for all buildings logged and tracked in digitalenergy’s integrated system along with other key variables, the management team can be confident of their ability to meet targets year on year.”
i-Prophets Energy Services are at the coal face, responding to clients’ needs, creating information networks, enabling knowledge transfer and providing solutions to energy and carbon management concerns. Through the company’s mix of award winning software backed by expert consultancy and ongoing support, i-Prophets are providing clients in both the public and private sector with a pathway to positive change through greater intelligence – a sustainable and demonstrative way to improve energy efficiency.
Counting the cost of carbon
The unique approach taken by i-Prophets employs the principle of collect once and use numerous times (COUNT). How often do we carry out activities to produce an output and discard the detail inputted without a thought, only to require similar information in the future? By collecting all information together significant resource and cost efficiencies can be made by reducing the need to engage surveyors and consultants each time an activity is carried out or considered.
In addition to reducing reporting burdens the approach also makes organisation's more agile, having readily at hand information to react to an ever changing market.
Being able to identify your worst carbon or energy performing building, department or floor, and understanding why, empowers the facilities management team to take actions. What is unknown is unmanageable.
Readiness is also an advantage for improvement. With many funding streams expected to come on line in the near future to drive carbon emissions being in a position to understand exactly where and how to implement such funding and being able to forecast the return is a powerful offshoot of the COUNT principle.
Creating an asset out of the burden of legislation
As well as access to tools to improve efficiency and reduce emissions and, vitally in today’s regulated world, demonstrate compliance with the increasing range of energy legislation in the UK, digitalenergy has been government approved for the calculation of carbon emissions and can be utalised to produce DECs (Display Energy Certificates), manage EPCs (Energy Performance Certificates), Air Conditioning Inspections and as well as offering access, in a single resource, to facilitate the reporting for the CRC legislation. All through a user friendly online portal, designed to be used by all skill levels.
“Meeting legislative requirements is a key driver to changing the business infrastructure and generating behavior change” Richard continued. “In a very simple fashion digitalenergy provides a way for all building users to understand and contribute to better energy performance as it provides collective data on current performance, recommendations for future improvement and a workable methodology to implement and track changes.”
For more information on how i-Prophets can help your organisation meet its energy and carbon reduction commitments call to speak to an expert today at 0845 003 9087 alternatively email info@i-prophets.com