e-Bench
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Posting Date | 18 December 2009
Type of tool | Benchmarking tool
Countries where the tool has been developed | Oceania
Geographic Coverage | International
Theme | Building operation, monitoring, energy management, Environmental issues related to buildings
Conditions of availability | Sale
Price | 100
Expertise required | The majority of New Zealand's universities, many government departments, hospitals, schools, local authorities, property management companies and a number of key industry sector participants.
Input of the tool | Required data on energy and utility consumption, e.g. from electricity, gas and water meters, physical attributes, i.e. the floor areas, construction of walls, floors, roof, their materials, thickness, orientation, shape, etc. and utilisation information, i.e. hours of business, internal temperature settings, occupancy, widgets produced, etc. It probably requires more initial data than any other type of database as it has been developed to truly compare apples with apples. However once this data has been entered it may require no further input from a user's perspective as the database has been configured to accept electronic batch files on consumption and data from production or building management systems automatically.
Output of the tool | The range of outputs is limitless and is capable of being fully customisable by the user. It verifies and reports on any errors in invoices and / or any unexpected variations in consumption. It reports by individual buildings, process segments and provides it in an easily interpreted format of $, CO2 and kWh. It compares like facilities or processes against the sample average, best and worst and quantifies these differences again in $, CO2 and kWh. Information is available both graphically and in individual reports. There are a range of pre-formatted reports but a user can customise and configure it to suit any application or process.
Tool Languages | English
Desktop computer tool for comprehensively measuring the energy, utility and environmental efficiency of a facility or process and comparing it to established benchmarks.
e-Bench enables organisations, industry sectors and even countries to improve energy, utility and environmental performance. It is a management tool that will create financial savings through reduced energy use and improved load management, and improve indoor environmental quality (IEQ) (and consequent staff productivity). It also enables organisations to achieve financial savings through picking up on errors in their supplier invoices and through additional process and production efficiencies as well as to more adequately meet the requirements of Triple Bottom Line reporting.
e-Bench has been designed as an interpretive tool suitable for use by everyone within an organisation from the Facilities Manager to the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer. In New Zealand it is being used by their parliament, majority of it's universities and many local health authorities and hospitals. It is also in extensive use by many primary and secondary schools where it is not only being used as a means of invoice checking and monitoring consumption and improving energy efficiency, but also as part of the science and math curriculum. It therefore has to be understood by students as well as more technically proficient individuals.
Tool website URL(s) | http://www.energyts.com/
Submitted by Hicham LAHMIDI (BUREAU VERITAS)
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