Energy Surveys

For the most part, an energy survey of a building will be required to identify opportunities to reduce energy consumption costs and increase energy efficiency in the building fabric, building services and equipment.

In order to carry out your survey issued initially identified the scope of the imaging system and develop the survey brief. The state should aim to identify the level of detail that you intend to explore in the survey. If there is not enough detail then the survey will probably produce few opportunities to develop the energy management system. However, if there is too much detail then you may be left with too many ideas and opportunities that make it difficult to identify priorities.

As a rough guide, each opportunity for better energy management should also be accompanied by some information about the energy drivers (the equipment and activities that affect energy consumption), the action required, the estimated cost of implementing change, the financial and CO2 value making a change, the reduction target, timescales and outcomes. To this end, even one or two dozen energy-saving initiatives can soon require a fair amount of work to properly implement.