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keeping and target setting is in place the credit shall be awarded.
c) Energy Management Plan
Documents shall be submitted to provide information about how financial
and other resources are deployed for building energy management. The
submission shall include data collection, analysis, indicator, programme,
auditing, target and person in charge.
Credit shall be awarded where energy efficient measures are financed at
an appropriate level, either from operating budgets and/or from savings
in energy costs.
d) Energy management manual
The onus is on the Client to demonstrate that an appropriate energy
management manual exists.
e) Energy charge
The bonus credit shall be awarded where, in buildings with tenants,
energy costs to tenants are charged separately and not included in base
rents. In buildings under single ownership/occupancy the credit may be
awarded if it can be demonstrated that individual departments within the
organisation are charged for energy use from within their operating
budgets. In all cases the accounting details shall be provided.
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Proactive management will seek to improve the performance of systems
and equipment, i.e., improved energy efficiency, and promote energy
conservation, i.e., minimise wastage of energy. Staff awareness of the
importance of energy costs and efficiency is important if efficiency is to
be improved through management procedures. Financial support for an
action plan for implementing energy-saving measures is essential, either
by a budget allocation or by allocation of all or part of savings in fuel bills.
It is also vital that an appropriate senior person in the organisation be
responsible for energy management. End-users of premises in a building
should also be made aware that reducing energy use within their
premises not only will reduce their own energy bills, it will also lead to
reduced energy cost for providing air-conditioning for their premises.
Tenants will be motivated to reduce their own energy use and to
minimise use of air-conditioning if they can share the benefits of reduced
energy cost on the landlord side.
Similar to the function of financial audit to a company, energy audit
needs to be conducted at regular intervals to provide the building
management with a clear picture about the types and quantities of
energy being used in a building and for what purposes, whether energy
has been used efficiently and effectively, and the room for
improvements.
Effective energy management in building services requires an easy-to-
follow up-to-date manual. All documentation, including operating
manuals and maintenance instructions should be clearly written, detailing
the design approach and describing the actual systems and equipment
and controls installed.