Helping to reduce your Carbon Footprint

Any organisation seeking to reduce its carbon emissions should first take a closer look at its building energy management system (BEMS).

Owners and tenants of non-domestic buildings are under mounting pressure to cut their energy usage and carbon emissions. They are faced by the prospect of higher utility prices and ever more stringent legislation, not to mention public and stakeholder demands that they show high standards of corporate social responsibility.

So what should be the first priority for hard-pressed energy and facilities managers? The logical answer is that they should focus on those areas where large energy savings can be made quickly and easily. This will often mean looking no further than their building energy management system.

The principal role of a BEMS is to regulate and monitor heating, ventilation and air conditioning – and often lighting too. It typically controls 60-80% of a building’s energy usage. By applying a range of control and monitoring routines – both simple and sophisticated – it is capable of operating the building services in strict accordance with usage & demand, thereby avoiding unnecessary use of energy;

However additional energy savings can be made if the building occupants are also involved in energy saving programmes.

Playing your part

So how do you demonstrate your energy saving commitments & also encourage your building occupants to participate. Much of the investment will be wasted unless the business can encourage their employees to participate by demonstrating energy commitments and illustrating performance targets, thereby motivating individuals to play their part in energy reduction programmes. Equally in today’s climate it is important for all businesses to let their customers know their green credentials.

Custom Energy Displays

GBC can provide a range of custom Energy Displays that help a a business demonstrate its commitment to reducing energy. We can provide simple displays through to the latest Trend developed "EnergyEYE" This is a software application that provides a dynamic view of a buildings energy performance, allowing building occupants and visitors alike to see an organisations commitment to improving the management of energy and its performance against targets.

The Trend EnergyEYE has been designed to be shown on a large format monitor and viewed in high traffic areas..

EnergyEye Key Features Include:

• Displays daily, monthly and YTD consumption of gas and electricity
• Traffic light indication against performance targets
• Movie files can be played on the screen concurrently with the performance data
• Market messages can be communicated by scrolling text
• Corporate video messages can also be incorporated into the display


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