The Celebration of Excellence awards are presented to properties to recognize efforts towards Exceptional Environmental Management.
Congratulations to:
Greenrock Commercial Services
Winner of Earth Award (250,000-499,999 SqFt): 365 Bloor Street East
DREAM Office Management Corp.
Winner of Beyond Earth Hour Challenge Greatest Building Reducer: 350 Bay Street
Northam Realty Advisors Ltd.
Winner of the Earth Award (over 1 million SqFt): 483 Bay Street
Madison Group
Achieved BOMA BEST Silver Certification: 15 Toronto Street
Madison Group
Achieved BOMA BEST Silver Certification: 90 Eglinton Avenue East
Special recognition to Michael Hasko on being awarded the Young Professional Individual Award of Excellence.
Way to go!
Energy@Work attended the June16th IESO webinar to learn more about their incentive programs on behalf of our clients.
The IESO provides $$ incentive support for kW reduction but under a ‘prescriptive’ model. This means that optimization of a process will not be incentivized and basically “buys kW reduction”.
‘Something is better than nothing’.
However, it is important to keep in mind there will always be work involved in making the application, collecting the required invoices, disposal certificates if applicable, etc. It is also essential that an application be prepared and APPROVED before doing the project or risk losing the incentive. Our advice continues to be: “incentives are like icing on the cake, you need to like the cake first.”
Program highlights:
Incentives are available for a variety of improvement measures.
Application must be approved before starting the project
Applicable for many different types of equipment, depending on the size of the equipment, e.g.,
Variable Frequency Drive
Motors
Demand Control Ventilation <Not recommended for Pandemic Period>
- refer to: NRCan HVAC Self-assessment tool and guideCompressed air – Zero loss drains, receiver tanks, dryers, etc.
VSD compressor air
Industrial systems – Process
Incentive capped at 50% of the eligible project costs
(Note: 50% is typically never reached and better to assume 10-20%)Must meet minimum incentives of $500 per facility
Significant changes were made to the BOMA BEST Certification Questionnaire
- now LIVE for Office buildings!
Office buildings certifying after June 15th, 2021, are required to meet the new expectations. The largest change includes the new addition of "Section 11: Pandemic Response".
Section 11 reflects the redistribution of points from the Energy and Water Sections. It consists of 100 points across 16 questions. A useful tool to refer to on a pandemic response is free from NRCan on efficient and effective HVAC operation: NRCan HVAC Self-assessment tool and guide
Note:
Properties that are enrolled in an Energy Management Action Plan (E-MAP) meet the 14 points for training!
Contact Lisa Liang to learn more about the New Pandemic Response Section of the BOMA BEST Certification.
Lisa can assist with the questionnaire and how these changes can affect your office building: positively and negatively.
Lisa recently helped two properties receive Platinum certification resulting in 2 Earth Awards!
Ontario regulation 506/18 mandates that all buildings over 100,000 SqFt must report their 2020 energy and water consumption to the Ministry of Energy, Northern Development and Mines by July 1st, 2021.
(The regulation was amended to delay buildings between 50,000 – 100,000 SqFt reporting until 2023.)
For the first-time in Ontario utilities are required to provide aggregated data. This is your opportunity to review aggregated consumption data and compare how energy and water are used. The July 1st deadline is quickly approaching.
Benchmarking is the first step logical step in Energy Management. The second step is to properly understand what the data is saying – we help with both!
The BOMA Toronto CREST Awards offer an opportunity to recognize the efforts of participants of the race2reduce (r2r) program who achieved top performance in the following categories:
• Performance Leadership: Awarded for implemented measures that improve performance in each of the 4 subcategories, Electricity, Gas, Water, and Waste.
In addition, there are:
• Innovative Excellence: Awards effective and creative strategNRCan HVAC Self-assessment tool and guideies, frameworks and technologies implemented to solve problems or achieve successes.
• Collaborative Excellence: Recognizes the partnership between the landlord, tenant, and stakeholders to drive building performance.
• Climate Champion: Demonstration of exceptional efforts to reduce emissions.
• Municipal Beacon: Recognizes demonstration of commitment from a municipality.
Awards in each category are available for Building Sizes:
1) < 100, 000 Sq. ft
2) 100,000 ≤ Sq. ft < 500,000 Sq. ft
3) ≥ 500,000
Tenant Awards:
i) Individual Tenant
ii) Tenant Portfolio
Energy@Work won the 2020 Collaborative Excellence Award and continues to help others earn recognition as well!
We track the GAM cost every month, which remains around $1 Billion. We want to see a greater focus on GAM cost reduction and who is responsible to explain “why?” the cost is so high. GAM costs are largely Nuclear (OPG and non-OPG). However, conservation continues to be reported as the reason for GAM. Another ‘why?’ question that remains unanswered.
Energy@Work presented Decision #1 and #2 at the annual BOMA Global Adjustment workshop.
Decision #1 is to be Class A or B on June 15th.
Decision #2 is to decide on your strategy for the next 12 months!
For more information and to request a copy of the presentation, click here.
Energy@Work helped customers achieve a net benefit in 2021-22 from Decision #1 of $1,000,000 or more!
For the next 12 months, we use the Energy Management Action Plan (E-MAP) to support the 2nd Decision, the appropriate GA strategy, either Class A or B, i.e., your “GAMe coach”.
Our collective savings have exceeded $10 million.
We thank everyone that has provided feedback and for your comments: positive and negative!
We appreciate to hear your thoughts and welcome your feedback on how we can improve or include other areas of interest to you: Please email: Requests@Energy-Efficiency.com
Thank You:
- Energy@Work