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Energy Audit

Kelcroft's energy audits helps lower your building and operating costs, without sacrificing occupational comfort. It reduces pollution and your impacts on the environment. 

Commissions are undertaken range from the small energy assessments to major projects. 

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Surveys indicate that more than seventy five percent (75%) of buildings are operating incorrectly, have inappropriate operating and maintenance contracts or are waste money through inefficient energy usage. And all too often the energy management systems installed to reduce operating costs, don't function as intended adding to further wasted energy.
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You wouldn't operate your business without the advice of an accountant to oversee your finances would you? Likewise an annual energy audit ensures that your energy cheque book is balanced too.

Energy costs rise every year, tariffs increases are threatened, and oil prices are soaring, these effect your bottom line - Kelcroft energy audit helps identify waste and reduce your energy bills.


Why Should I Get an Energy Audit?

Most of us know about low-flow shower heads, CFLs and unplugging our cell phone chargers when not in use, but there is so much more. Real savings need a professional auditor to help locate and remedy.

An energy audit is also an appropriate tool if you are considering an energy efficiency or renewable energy project. The audit can help you decide whether or not these projects are truly worthwhile.


Approach

Kelcroft's approach takes a holistic view, a total energy approach. Our energy audit considers the total picture, not just the low hanging fruit - an overall energy cost in use perspective.

The goal is management of resources without sacrificing end-user comfort. Our energy audits are conducted in accordance with international standards, and local EMSD guidelines as required. Energy auditing needs to be conducted on the ground, energy can't be saved without inspecting the nuts and bolts on site.

 

Energy Losses

Finding and identifying energy waste, energy auditing reveals the underlying losses, don't be left in the dark.

Lost Maintenance

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High Rise Waste

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Energy Auditing

An energy audit is the systematic review of each fuel, and energy consuming system in your building or facility.

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It commences with the collection, and analysis of all information that may effect your buildings energy consumption. That data is analyzed, the condition and performance of existing systems examines and existing management techniques reviewed.

Then we compare your facilities energy performance with published standards (benchmarks) for your premises and activities of a similar nature and provide proposals that are financially viable to lower cost and energy consumption. 

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An energy audit is not an excuse for cutting energy consumption, rather managing the usage to maintain and or improve occupant comfort. Also the auditor will review the existing energy system efficiencies.

An annual energy audit is much like your annual accountant review, stating the past and current energy balance.

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Energy Audit Report

The result of the energy audit is the audit report, Kelcroft's energy audit report includes our findings, and is sub-divided into three energy management sections, namely:

Within these three sectors, we explain energy saving options and opportunities for your review and implementation. 


Energy audits and energy auditing for buildings, including hotel audits, school audits, hospital audits, commercial building audits, office audits. buildings are high energy consumers and offering options for energy saving.

Housekeeping

Housekeeping measures are low cost / no cost measures improvements involving relatively simple steps to start achieving energy savings. For example training courses to increase energy consumption awareness amongst your staff. 


Operation Measures

Operating and Maintenance measures are  recommended improvements that necessitate some change within your existing regime or maintenance strategy.

For example lighting modifications, improved the switching arrangement or implementing a new lamp replacement strategy benefiting from the efficacy of the latest technology. Or perhaps re-commissioning to recover lost capacity.

In the majority of cases, the working environment for your customers is improved..


Capital Works

Capital works are major improvements to your premises or systems that will require significant expenditure.

Examining your installation, analyzing your operating and maintenance costs, and evaluating possible options for energy conservation. 

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Financially viable proposals that will benefit you! are offered for appraisal. There is not one correct answer for each client, each has different needs and goals. For example switching to water cooled air conditioning (cooling towers) under the Hong Kong pilot programme or consideration of cost effective cogeneration solutions or perhaps waste 2 energy systems.

Energy Audit Financial Analysis

The energy analysis would comprise a practical and economic evaluation of viable energy saving options. This evaluation would include an investigation of all the various elements that contribute to your owning and operating costs.  Typically these would comprise:

Each of the elements would be analyzed to gauge the overall economic viability of a particular energy-saving strategy or programme.

Initial expenditure

Defines the money required to purchase the plant or equipment (CAPex).

Cost in use

Cost in use is the operating and running costs for the installation based on the data retrieved during the energy audit (OPex.)

Investment analysis

Investment analysis comprises fiscal, payback and net present value calculations, these tools are primarily used to establish if a proposal would recoup your investment during a specific period.

Payback hurdles would be established to meet the needs of the organisation.



Energy Audit Experience

Kelcroft's long standing expertise can help implementation of energy audit recommendations, particularly our experience providing E&M capital works projects.

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We are unique because our knowledge, gained across three continents, is backed up with our experience from nearly thirty years building services design and operation. We help organisations lower their operating cost so they can leverage that competitive advantage in the market place. 

Our experience includes commercial buildings, hotels, retail, data centres, and factories in Hong Kong and China.


What next?

Call Kelcroft to order your energy audit today, our Hong Kong office telephone is +(852) 2335 9830, or share with a colleague

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