Energy Management
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, businesses squander around 30% of the energy consumed in their commercial buildings, while buildings account for 32% of global energy use and also 19% of energy-related greenhouse emissions. Therefore Organizations are increasing focused on reducing energy waste, and facility managers are being asked to provide advice and guidance on how to enhance the energy efficiency of their building systems. Because improving energy efficiency cause to enhance operational efficiency while also lowering energy usage and overall costs.
Facility managers are cover a wide range of disciplines to ensure that the people, process, space, and technology that make up a building all work in harmony. As well as facility managers are in a unique position to identify and act on energy consumption efficiency improvements throughout their facilities by leveraging local operational efficiency initiatives. There's a risk of missing out on opportunities to improve a facility's operational performance if it doesn't have excellent facility energy management in place. Also facility managers have a better awareness of the site's unique challenges and opportunities, and can advise on how to best combine people, processes, and technology to achieve maximum efficiency.
In order to archive energy efficiency of the building, facility managers can be conducted a survey to provide information needed to identify low/no cost opportunities and identify the current scenario of the relevant building. As well as through this survey, facility managers can be found energy efficiency to be proven and worthwhile investment strategy. All are known HVAC system and lighting system are the highest energy consumption systems of the any building. Normally HVAC system consumes 40-70% of the total energy consumption of a building. Hence facility managers can save energy by implementing energy efficiency methods for those systems. Also the key to ensuring that building systems remain functional, comfortable, safe, and efficient is to guarantee that equipment is well-managed and maintained through routine inspections and preventative maintenance. Because, when maintenance is ignored for an extended period will cause to reduce equipment efficiency and asset damages. In addition to that, facility manager can be implemented following methods in-order to achieve energy efficiency of the building.
• Developing short and long term programs to control energy use in the facilities.
• Implementing reporting procedures for all energy conservation projects
• Working with the Finance Department to develop an annual and long-term budget planning effort to support efficient energy consumption and goals.
• Promoting research for the development of efficient energy strategies.
• Reporting periodically to the Executives and Board Members on energy conservation goals, objectives, and accomplishments.
• Establishing specific energy standards that will serve as guidelines for architects and engineers.
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