What tools are available to measure and monitor your sustainability initiative? How do you weigh costs/benefits and positives/negatives of different systems?

What tools are available to measure and monitor your sustainability initiative?

How do you weigh costs/benefits and positives/negatives of different

systems?

Moderator: James Boyle- President & CEO, Sustainability Roundtable, Inc.

● Tad Radzinski – P.E., LEED AP, SFP, President, Sustainable Solutions

Corporation

● Steve Ashkin – CEO, The Sustainability Dashboard, LLC

● Rudi Miklosvary – EVP, Carbon Systems

1Sustainable Real Estate Roundtable © 2011 Sustainability Roundtable, Inc. Confidential – For use in connection with SR Inc Services only.

Sustainability Symposium PA/NJ 2012What you Can't Measure You Can't Change-

Measurement and Verification11:30 am – 12:30 pm ET

What You Can’t Measure You Can’t

Change Tad Radzinski, PE, LEED AP, SFP

Copyright 2012 by Sustainable Solutions Corp.

Why Measure?

• “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.”• Periodic data analysis and trending will help

identify sources of loss or waste.• Simple spreadsheets to track raw materials,

chemicals, water, utilities, waste, and the associated costs.


Measurement Tools

• Consultants• ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager• Spreadsheets• Auditing Systems • Sustainable Purchasing Guidelines

– Site Specific Dashboards • Software

– Energy and Carbon Accounting Systems


Value of Benchmarking

• Helps to decide where to focus efforts• Useful in developing and meeting sustainability

goals• Required by law in some municipalities• Often required for green building

documentation (e.g. LEED)


But Where Do I Start?

• Where to begin is actually a very important decision• When approached correctly, some capital

improvements may be “paid from savings” by lower cost measures


Sustainable Buildings & Operations

• Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certification Services

• ENERGY STAR Benchmarking and Certification

• ASHRAE Level 1 and Level 2 Audits• Building Performance Improvement

Program (BPIP)

• Building Energy Modeling • High Performance Facility Assessment• Green Building Consulting

• Building and Campus Design • Photovoltaic Feasibility and Design • Energy Efficiency Design


The Performance Improvement Process


ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager

• Tracks energy use across entire portfolio of buildings• Normalizes energy use (for weather, type of building,

occupancy, etc.) and compares to national averages• Ongoing benchmarking will verify expected energy

performance improvement• Maintaining a current database is essential to the program’s success


LEED EB: O&M Energy And atmosphere• Prerequisite 1: Minimum Energy

Performance – Requires a minimum ENERGY STAR Score of 69

• EA Credit 1: Optimize Energy Efficiency Performance.– Intent: To achieve increasing

levels of operating energy performance relative to typical buildings of similar type to reduce environmental and economic impacts associated with excessive energy use.


Case Study Building

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83• Benchmarking of energy

cost and consumption• Lighting changes and

occupancy sensors• HVAC operating hour

changes• Better use of BAS• Training of building

engineers


Case Study Building - Electricity• Reducing energy consumption by 20%, resulting in cost savings of $120,000 • Minimal capital cost• Carbon footprint reduced by over 20%• Additional energy conservation measures will reduce the energy

consumption an additional 14%• Anticipated cost savings of $40,000/yr. with a simple payback of 1.8 years

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Contact

• Tad Radzinski, P.E. LEED AP, SFP– 610-569-1047 office– [email protected]

www.SustainableSolutionsCorporation.com

Sustainability Tools

Making Buildings BetterReducing Environmental Impacts

Saving Money

Stephen Ashkin, CEOSustainability Dashboard Tools, LLC

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3 Take-Aways

• Climate change is the issue of our generation, but sustainability is more than just energy.

• Sustainability affects everything we do including what we buy and what our people do.

• Sustainability for most organizations requires a culture change. Herein lies our greatest challenge.

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Why OrganizationsShould Care?

Buildings Are Important

• 39% of total energy use• 68% of total electricity

consumption• 30% of landfill waste• 38% of carbon dioxide

emissions• 12% of total water

consumption

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Buildings Are Important

• $2 to $4 per sq ft for energy• $1 to $2 per sq ft for cleaning• $0.02 to $0.20 per sq ft for

water and waste• Other purchases including

office supplies, food, raw materials, etc.

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Total ImpactsCost

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CleaningTotal Cost

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CleaningPer Sq Ft

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CleaningCost per Occupant

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Cleaning% Green

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Creating a Culture of Sustainability

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Creating a Culture of Sustainability

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Contact:

[email]

www.green2sustainable.com

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Stephen Ashkin

(812)[email protected]


You can’t manage what you don’t measure.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Peter Drucker

Contact:

[email]


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Stephen Ashkin

(812)[email protected]


Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

NJ/PA Sustainability SymposiumRudi MiklosvaryMarch. 2012

Developing a Strategy

Manage ‘total’ energy and environmental impact to control costs, achieve sustainable targets and optimize value of assets

• Understand/ Examine your business needs• Define the scope• Acquire cost & consumption data• Evaluate and analyze• Action (implementation & control)• Performance measurement (programs)• Systems integration

The Sustainability Journey

Focus Compliance Voluntary Reporting Performance Management

Example EH&S, US EPA, CRC (UK), NGERS

CDP, CSR, GRI, DJSI Operational Efficiency & Savings

Stakeholders Risk and Compliance Managers

Sustainability and Environment Managers

Facilities & Energy, Procurement and Business Managers

Scope Internal Operations Internal Operations Entire Value/Supply Chain

Frequency Annually 6 Monthly or Annually Daily, Weekly, Monthly

Data Sources Internal Surveys Supplier Accounts Meters & Infrastructure

Tools Spreadsheets Web Forms Enterprise Software

Sustainability

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Sustainability

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Sustainability

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Data collection

There a variety of tools available on the market today

Match the tool set that best suits your organization and solution needs

• Simple tools – Microsoft excel, access db etc.

• Site or Local tools – BMS, dashboards, metering, automated control systems etc.

• Enterprise tools – Cloud based, systems integration, global infrastructure

Evaluate and analyze

• Evaluate the scope of your strategy and determine what goals can be achieved with the available budget

• Examine all the tools available on the market and select one that best suits your needs and objectives

• Begin identifying source data, access to source data will define the levels of automation that can be achieved in collection

• Analyze data to refine focus on the largest impact areas

Systems integration and reporting

Automated Data CaptureCapture copies of electronic data files from smart meters, supplier reports, electronic invoices and your internal IT systems for automated upload to a secure database

Manual Data CaptureQuickly and accurately enter data manually via customised web forms or preconfigured spreadsheet templates

Data Services HubsFiles in various electronic formats can be emailed to the services hubs for secure data extraction, verification and integrity testing

Global databaseThe secure SQL server manages your data and a database of global data formats, metrics and carbon emission factors for all major reporting regions around the world

Benefits of this approach

Reduce time and cost to manage energy & sustainability data• Simplify the collection of data via electronic data interchange • Free up time through scenario and rules based reporting – allowing key personnel to focus on

driving change, not managing information

Deliver up to date, business and compliance reporting• Exception reporting, automated error checking and audit trails gives you confidence in your

business decision making and reporting • Manage complex and dynamic organizational structures

Drive operational efficiency and cost savings • Develop a comprehensive sustainability performance management framework using analytical

tools and scenario models • Identify areas for operational improvement (e.g. via benchmarking) and harness cost saving

opportunities

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