subject: Hurleypalmerflatt Provides Five Energy Management Tips For Businesses [print this page] For both businesses and for the environment, energy can be a costly commodity. Building services consultancy hurleypalmerflatt (http://www.hurleypalmerflatt.com/) specialises in energy management and has put together five tips to help businesses make key savings.
1. Understand your energy use through meters and monitoring
2. Streamline the collection and reporting of data to ensure efficiency compliance with CRC
3. Regularly review your building controls strategy to ensure you are not wasting energy unnecessarily
4. Identify the investments that could be made to reduce your energy use
5. Get buy in for your approach to CRC from both a senior level sponsor within your organisation and from staff and stakeholders across the organisation
On the subject of CRC, Stuart Bowman of hurleypalmerflatt recently stated: The Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) has been a much talked-about issue since it was conceived, with many pages dedicated to the topic across the national and trade media. Yet the publication of the first league tables in early November went largely unnoticed, raising questions about the profile of the CRC and whether it has dropped off the business agenda.
The old style CRC would have financially rewarded the most energy efficient. No longer. Many organisations now view it as an unavoidable cost rather than a business opportunity. This shift has meant the CRC has slipped down the priority list for most organisations.
It is clear that sustainability initiatives have lost some resonance with managers who arent directly responsible for sustainability and compliance. However, this is likely to be temporary, as the CRC has further to evolve.
The CRC provides a focus for energy cost reduction and achieving high return on investment. For these reasons the CRC should be firmly on every participant companys corporate agenda.
My bet is that next year people wont be saying remember the CRC? but remember how we used to pay it so little attention?
Today hurleypalmerflatt is the largest privately owned firm of consulting engineers in the UK. The recent Datacenter Dynamics awards saw group chairman Paul Flatt named 2011s European Data Centre Business Leader of the Year.
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hurleypalmerflatts vision is to deliver world class sustainable solutions for the built environment. In doing this, building services consultants hurleypalmerflatt aim to become the clear leaders in the mission critical engineering market for global corporate organisations, thought leaders in low carbon building and sustainability and the providers of the highest standards in engineering design.
