Performance and Profitability: Benchmarking best practices
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Performance and Profitability: Benchmarking best practices Philip B. Jago Director, Buildings Division, Natural Resources Canada
Transcript of Performance and Profitability: Benchmarking best practices
Performance and Profitability: Benchmarking best practices Philip B. Jago Director, Buildings Division, Natural Resources Canada
We are the Buildings Division, Office of Energy Efficiency, Natural Resources Canada
The Buildings Division plays a role in the following areas….
NEW BUILDINGS
NECB - 2011
Update NECB - 2016
Commissioning
EXISTING BUILDINGS
Canadian Adaptation of ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager Recommissioning
CAPACITY BUILDING AND ENABLING TOOLS
Training - Dollars to $ense Workshops Tools Information Retrofit Guidelines
FEDERAL BUILDINGS
FBI
Technical resources and assistance
Helping Canada’s buildings sector to become
a world leader in energy performance
We encourage a strategic approach to energy management
Source: http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/sites/www.nrcan.gc.ca/files/oee/files/pdf/publications/commercial/BenchmarkPrimer_eng.pdf
Benchmarking is essential to understanding how well a building
is performing.
Energy benchmarking is the ongoing review of your organization's energy consumption to determine if a building's energy performance is getting better or worse in comparison to itself, other buildings in your portfolio and/or its peers.
We have adapted Portfolio Manager to Canada as a Metrics Calculator and a Management Tool
Based on the only National building energy use data survey
Tracks changes in energy, water emissions & cost over time
Uses Canadian factors for energy and emissions calculations Indirect, direct, total and avoided
Bilingual
Metric and imperial
Weather normalization - auto mapped to postal code
Share/Report/request data with others
It is already a “hit” in the US
67% of Building Managers in the U.S. use Portfolio Manager as the first step in a project
Number of buildings: 11,579 Floor space : 152.6 M m2
18.8% of Floor space
Since its launch in 2013, Portfolio Manager’s Popularity is growing and it is now coast to coast to coast
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And growing and growing and growing
Growing by 200 bldgs and almost 2 million m2 of floor space/month
Portfolio Manager is simple but highly effective
A score of 50 is the median. If you receive a score of 50, then half of similar buildings are performing worse and half are performing better than your building. A score of 75 or higher would be considered a top performer (in the top quartile).
There are things it does do and things it does not do
The score: • Evaluates actual metered energy use
• Normalizes for business activity
• Compares a building to the national population of buildings
• Indicates the level of relative energy performance
The score does not: • Calculate the energy use of each piece of equipment
• Credit specific technologies
• Compare buildings with others in Portfolio Manager
• Explain why a building performs well or poorly
We now have scores for …
– Office Buildings – K-12 Schools – Hospitals – Retail – Food: Supermarkets and Food stores – Medical Offices
Before the end of March we will score: – Nursing and residential care facilities
NRCan’s: Role and Support
NRCan supports energy benchmarking as an integral part of strategic energy management
NRCan Portfolio Manager Support Step-by-step training guides, FAQs, and technical
reference documents, on-demand user support in the tool Live and recorded demo webinars Dollars to $ense energy management workshops series
with a new customizable Portfolio Manager module
Other NRCan Resources Buildings Division Info Services
1-877-360-5500 / [email protected]
Heads-Up: Building Energy Efficiency newsletter Subscribe at https://oeeforms.nrcan.gc.ca/index-eng.cfm?event=heads-up-
newsletter-subscription
Customizable Dollars to $ense ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager workshop module
NRCan energy benchmarking Circle of Champions (http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/energy/efficiency/buildings/energy-benchmarking/3771)
Publications including NRCan’s Energy Benchmarking Primer (http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/sites/www.nrcan.gc.ca/ files/oee/files/pdf/publications/commercial/ BenchmarkPrimer_eng.pdf)
