​Client

The GPT (General Property Trust) Group

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Partners

​Sustainable Business and Jones Lang LaSalle with funding provided by the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage

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Brief

• Design and pilot a training program for building operations teams to deliver energy savings in commercial buildings by improving the frequency and effectiveness by which the building operations team utilises energy sub-meter data

• Write up the training as a package to allow other training and commercial property owners to implement the training

• Evaluate the outcomes from the training

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About  the training ​

​The training:

• is practical and applied

• Involves 4 x 2 hour workshops delivered over an 8 week period.

• Is targeted at the building operations team (facilities manager, mechanical, electrical and controls contractors) in a specific building

• Is intended to be supported by coaching on technical issues between workshops

• Involves development of an action plan that is presented to a senior asset or other key manager in the final workshop session.

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Outcomes

Evaluation of the pilot program applied within The GPT Group highlighted that by the end of the training building operations teams involved had:

• ​A better understanding of energy use in their buildings and the action they could take to improve energy efficiency​

• Implemented processes that meant they reviewed energy data on a more regular basis

• Improved collaboration on energy and other building management issues within the operations teams

• Implemented projects that had saved energy and contributed towards a higher NABERS energy rating of the buildings involved

 

Patrick Crittenden in currently customising and delivering the training for a number of other property groups including the Government Property NSW.

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Downloads

• A case study summarising the training and the results achieved by The GPT Group

• A conference presentation describing the training and the outcomes achieved