Most companies don’t own their offices. They lease them. Typically, half the energy use in an office building is directly controlled by the tenant through the use of lighting, supplementary air conditioning, the data centre and other IT. That means companies leasing office space have a lot more control over their energy and resulting greenhouse emissions than they realise. Moving to a building where the base-building services have a high NABERS greenhouse rating is only half the battle. What you do in your tenancy matters just as much.
Big Switch Projects specialises in working with major corporate office tenants to identify and deliver financially compelling energy-efficiency opportunities.
These days, both staff, clients and perhaps your shareholders through global projects such as the Carbon Disclosure Project are asking what businesses are doing about carbon emissions, climate change and corporate sustainability. And for most services-sector companies, the largest part of their carbon footprint is due to their property-related energy consumption. With energy prices rising rapidly, and the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) coming in 2011, there’s never been a more profitable time to examine how to make your offices energy-efficient and low-carbon.
How can Big Switch Projects help?
We’ll tailor a program to suit your organisation’s needs and budget. This might include:
1. Establishing your environmental baseline:
Conduct a
NABERS rating to understand how your energy performance compares against best practice
2. Identifying opportunities to save energy in your existing tenancy:
eeco2 Helping you get the best out of your new fitout.
3. Working as energy efficiency advisors to your design team when you’re designing a new office, performing the business modelling for different NABERS Energy outcomes
4. Acting as a client-side project manager to implement energy saving projects on time and on budget
5. Engaging with your leadership team, staff and external stakeholders running executive environmental workshops, staff engagement programs and helping with external schemes such as CitySwitch Green Office and the Green Building Fund.