Isramart llc: Improving Building Efficiency with Carbon Management Software

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Carbon Management Software is the best solution to ensure that the management of energy consumption within the company estate is controlled centrally. A key aspect of carbon management software is its ability to group company buildings by similarity or type in order to specifically benchmark energy spending

It is essential for Energy Managers to identify high consumption buildings to reduce emissions and comply with carbon reduction commitments, but this critical area of work is complicated without access to carbon management software. The ability of software to identify high consumption buildings is an important initial stage, but furthermore, software that can propose improvement programmes, suggest alternative scenarios and even create virtual retrofit solutions and the effects such solutions would have on carbon reduction is invaluable.

Virtual retrofitting scenarios optimise and justify capital spend, as the effects of carbon reduction programmes can be seen virtually before any expenditure is incurred. Carbon management software, such as CADmeleon, that facilitates virtual retrofit recommendations offers a very practical solution for companies to reduce carbon emissions. The ultimate aim of such virtual retrofit suggestions is to propose a company model for existing buildings that is sustainable and consistent. Most importantly, reduction in carbon emissions is underpinned by the government’s initiative and companies will have to provide evidence-based results that the measures and strategies put into place really are reducing carbon footprints. This should not be based on unsupported retrofit solutions that in the long term may fail. The crucial notion behind virtual retrofitting is the ability to see the effects of carbon reduction strategies in advance before strategies are put into place that could possibly fail and be very costly.

Fundamentally, any carbon reduction strategy that is implemented needs to be based on up-to-date data. Web-based carbon management software ensures that data is current as the software will be automatically updated, giving companies the peace of mind that reports will always provide accurate data. It is a very simple process to record, analyse and report the results of virtual retrofit solutions that have been implemented and view the evidence of a building’s carbon reduction. This is a very important aspect of a ‘spend to save’ decision for companies, in terms of evidence that carbon reduction programmes are operating successfully and more importantly they are sustainable.

Carbon management software is an essential facility in such austere times, helping to achieve a ‘spend to save focus’; it will be an important acquisition in order to monitor, analyse and report on carbon reductions. Companies should not be put off by initial outlay costs, as the benefits of utilising web-based carbon management software to help reduce emissions, will in the long run result in lower operational costs and a ‘spend to save’ outcome.

Peter Finch has a number of years experience working in the Energy Management field.