CHECK THE OUTDOOR AIR QUANTITIES When checking with the balancing expert, ask him to verify your designed fresh air requirements. In summer, you will pay a large air conditioning energy penalty if you are providing (and cooling) more outside air than required. In winter, you may be able to save air conditioning energy by using "air-side economizer" operating procedures, which is simply using more cold air from outside to achieve "free- cooling" wherever you need it. Ask your building engineer whether he is using such a strategy. This is less expensive than paying to run the chillers or compressors, which generally provide cooling. Energy savings can be significant. CAN YOU USE OTHER (i.e. NON-PROPERTY MANAGEMENT) STAFF TO HELP SAVE ENERGY? For example, security guards can sometimes be used to help ensure that air-con, heating, lights, etc. are turned off in areas after hours or when not needed. Requests for after- hours service are rarely perfectly accurate. It may help to have a procedure agreed with your clients and the building staff involved to decide when to shut equipment / lighting off. FOR LOCATIONS WHERE UTILITY CHARGES INCLUDE SIGNIFICANT "DEMAND CHARGE" COMPONENTS This generally applies only if your utility bill includes in its total a demand load component (a set rate charge applied to the maximum instantaneous energy usage). When this occurs, there is generally a significant chance to find savings by taking steps to reduce the peak instantaneous energy usage in your building.

Can you reschedule certain events to reduce peak demand? For example, if you have a big surge in lift usage at the same time that you normally start up your chillers, it may be worthwhile to turn chillers on a bit earlier to reduce the magnitude of the peak, on which your demand charge is

based. This can flatten the "spike" in demand that often accompanies chiller plant start up, which though consuming slightly more energy may save you money by saving much more on demand load than the relatively small extra consumption cost.

Think about all the electrical loads that you control. Think also about how the meters are installed. If you have multiple meters, can you redistribute loads from one meter to another to better flatten the usage curve?

Think about the schedule of your routine activities which result in significant energy usage. Can you reschedule some of these activities to occur outside the times of peak energy usage in your building (or more specifically, on your meter)?

Some utility companies may be able to provide you with the same raw data that they use to calculate your bill. Ask them to provide you with more detail on your energy usage so that you and your building engineer can analyze your usage.

Events

PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR DETAILS OF ALL EVENTS: http://ifma.org.hk/events.htm

REMINDER! Chapter visit to Macau Tower - Saturday 28 th February

The second IFMA visit for 2004 will be hosted by the Property Management team of the Macau Convention Centre & Tower on Saturday 28 th February, 2004.

The visit will include a short presentation and guided tour and the event is limited to 25 places so please confirm your booking as soon as possible.