Level 1 & 2 Energy Audits and LEED Exisiting Buildings: Operations and Maintenance

Healthy Buildings’ Energy Audit Approach

Healthy Buildings studies and evaluates your building’s systems and recommend solutions allowing installed systems to function better while achieving the owner’s criteria of optimum energy and resource efficiency. Our approach is to improve your competitive position by focusing on operations, maintenance effectiveness and building efficiency.

Maintenance is frequently regarded as an overhead cost rather than a contributor to profits. This traditional mindset is typically the direct result of the maintenance department’s limited resources to capitalize on its many opportunities to increase efficiency, maximize revenues and improve the performance cost. We benefit our clients by documenting the value of improvements achieved through process and technology in maintenance and reliability. Our depth of expertise in building systems operations, facility services and management analysis allows us to develop a comprehensive and integrated master energy and resource plan recognizing scheduled and unplanned activities and tasks.

Healthy Buildings believes in a measured approach that ties return on investment (ROI) to the project scope. Many times we have substantiated the worth of a project by function but more often by the ROI. Our experience proves this measured method takes all the guess-work out of the process.

Our “walk-through” evaluates the building’s performance giving us a view of how the building operates in real time. We identify areas by strength, weakness and baseline. We begin the evaluation by working with your facilities department. Our experience with building systems allows us to quickly identify opportunities. Key areas of concern will be “data logged” to capture actual energy usage and prepare day files detailing their potential. Once this process is complete, we author an Audit Report with our findings, baselines, energy efficiency measures (EEM) or ways to improve, non-bias costs and the financial model showing return on investment and payback information. Once EEMs are implemented, we will Post-Monitor to ensure efficiency and provide a final report to compare the initial Audit Report against the Post-Monitor Report for verification of energy and/or resource efficiency. This process may include: electricity, natural gas, steam, water, geothermal or on-site generation.