The ISO 50001-based energy management system is too little too late and fails to address the fundamental issue of rampant economic and environmental waste associated with facilities repair, renovation, maintenance, and new buildings.
Key problems.
#1 The program is self-paced. No timelines.
#2 The program is no-cost. Since when does no cost associate with value?
#3 There is no requirement for third party audits. History has taught us to “trust but measure”, failure to learn from our past is a sure fire way to fail.
way for organizations to build a culture of structured energy improvement that leads to deeper and sustained savings that does not require any external audits or certifications.
The is only one proven way for facilities portfolio owners to…
- Cut operational costs,
- Achieve continuous improvement and
- Improve risk management.
That “way” is a process that involves implementing an organization wide robust programmatic process to all decisions and projects. A programmatic process that mandates early and ongoing collaboration between all internal and external planning, procurement, and project delivery teams invovles i facilities management, inclusive of complete technical and cost visibility, long-term multi-party agreements, a written operations manual/execution guide, a common data environment (example: locally researched granular cost data for repair, renovation, maintenance, and new builds organized with a standard standard data architecture-MasterFormat, Uniformat, etc.), all focus upon mutually beneficial, clearly defined outcomes.
