Energy Auditing
Uncovering Conservation Opportunities
Ever had a vendor do a free energy audit in one of your buildings? Were you completely happy with the results? If the answer is "Yes", get your auditor to do your other buildings – you’ve found the best deal around.
But if the energy audit looked more like a quick overview and a sales pitch for a product, that shouldn't be a surprise. Outside investigations have found wide differences in the quality of energy audits, attributed to a lack of industry standards, the motivation to make a follow-on sale, and a lack of long-term experience. Next time consider using an independent service provider with a track record and actual design experience. There's really no substitute for independence or proven experience.
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 Many companies in the energy consulting field tend to specialize in feasibility studies, however we believe very strongly that if you don't know how to design HVAC systems you've go no business analyzing them for retrofit.
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Computerized Building Energy Simulation Handbook,
James P. Waltz, PE, CEM |
An energy audit is the due diligence that should come before making significant energy conservation investments in buildings. But investment-grade energy audits are a lot of work. They take a dedicated team, an embedded foundation of system experience, and a well-developed process to do them properly. And it takes volume to do them economically.
Energy auditing is a pillar of our business, not a sideline or marketing expense. It's based on a foundation of mechanical systems training, design, and installation management. And we've taken it very seriously for the past 19 years. Efficiency Engineering is one of the premier suppliers of energy audits in North America, delivering hundreds of building energy audits each year, millions of square feet of floorspace, using the proven managingenergy.com energy auditing system. managingenergy.com is a powerful process for streamlining the analysis and coordinating audit work among our team, your staff, and third party auditors.
Delivery times depend on current workload, but normally we have spare capacity for about 1,000,000 square feet per month with our own staff; more with contributions from others.
Email us with your contact information, for more information on how to get your energy auditing under way. We'll send you:
- a white paper on the energy audit process.
- a sample RFP document for competitive tendering of energy audit services.
- an introduction to the managingenergy.com system.
Government and utility subsidies are available in many regions.