Energy Audits

Novarama has provided energy audits to over 100 buildings, mostly in the City of London, but also as far away as the Maldives. Our advice is practical, realistic and quantifiable.

Although building structures last for many decades, most building services components last for between 10 and 15 years, and since it is the building services systems that really use the energy, and not the building envelope, this replacement cycle offers an opportunity to quickly improve the efficiency of the existing building stock and enhance the asset value.

To maximise this opportunity, our energy audits present recommendations as short- medium- and long-term, where short-term might be as simple as reducing plant-run hours, and long-term will be the overall strategy for the building over the next replacement cycle.

Without a long-term strategy, components tend to get replaced as and when they fail, often in a rush, and usually on a like-for-like basis, so that over time all of the components are replaced but the result is a newer clone of the original concept. We think that this is a terrible waste of an opportunity.

With a long-term strategy, components can still be replaced as and when they fail, but with carefully pre-considered alternatives that will support the existing installation and also work with the long-term strategy. In this way, the maintenace budget is harnessed to morph or evelove the building over time from its original concept into something that is low-carbon and energy-efficient.

Here are some buildings we have audited, left to right: Tower 42, The Wellcome Building, Shell's Scottish HQ,The Wellcome Trust's London HQ