Energy Risk Management
Green Building Design Group uses innovative design thinking and smart digital technologies to ensure Monitoring, Alarming, and ESG Reporting tools to enable enhanced safety and energy risk management for real estate and manufacturing asset client portfolios.
Bertha House Light House Project.
Bertha House is more than a building. It’s about creating a vibrant community of people wanting to change the world – a space recognised locally & globally as a cutting-edge hub for collaboration and innovation in activism. This space is used by an average of 1500 young creative people a day and is situated in a heritage building. Faced with a possible negative impacts of power failure and load shedding, the facilities team at Bertha House reached out to our sustainability team to investigate the electrical reticulation issues with the objective of optimising energy efficiency in the building.
Our team performed a Level 1 ASHRAE energy audit* and proposed the installation of smart meters and a small renewable energy system to alleviate the building’s energy challenges.
*Walk-Through Analysis - A Level 1 energy audit is the most basic and least expensive type of energy audit. It involves a walk-through of the client's building by an energy auditor who will inspect the building envelope, lighting, HVAC, water heating, and other major energy systems.
Energy Management Technology Innovation
In December 2023 a 44 kwp solar system with a 20kWh li battery was installed to service 50% of the day-time load. The installed smart technology comprises state of the art smart metering infrastructure that provides real time monitoring for the installed hybrid renewable energy system with backup battery storage. Today, the Facilities Management team relies on the multichannel Smart Meter and the hybrid Solar PV system to ensure uninterrupted power supply for its vibrant community.
Ongoing Energy Performance Measurement
The smart technology dashboard is being used by the Bertha House Facilities Management team to actively monitor and track overall performance of the integrated energy managed system and report to management and all the ESG stakeholders.
This also ensure transparency, trust and accountability by all project stakeholders and asset owners.
By implementing all these energy efficiency interventions Bertha House reached its energy efficiency goals and is well on its way to achieving its long-term sustainability goals by 2030!