CIBSE Australia and New Zealand 30th Anniversary

In Perth and Melbourne Chris Nunn of AMP (a
sustainability expert and ex-lawyer) also highlighted
how company Directors might find themselves on the
wrong side of corporate law.
In Sydney, Bruce Precious, Sustainability Manager
from GTP Group, highlighted that building owners
who don’t adopt voluntary metering tools and
demonstrate buildings that perform at the very least
are alienating a new breed of savvy investor looking
for sustainability benchmarks. ‘Investors want to
know how a property group manages energy,’ Bruce
explained, giving insight into an important driver for
GTP Groups aggressive energy reduction strategy.
A message also echoed by the expert panel was
that ‘metering alone does not save energy, it creates
information that then requires action’ according to
CIBSE Technical Director, Hywel Davies. Hywel further
expressed ‘the need for clients to take ownership of
data and specifications.’
Incorrect metering installation, another industry
wide issue, raised by Paul Dearlove, IBMS Technical
Director, as evidenced in a recent survey by IBMS of
370 buildings which found 97% to have inaccurate
metering installed.
Help is on its way with the new CIBSE TM39 – Building
Energy Metering, which focusses on the measurement
of the consumption of water, energy and heat in
non-domestic buildings. ‘It’s about transparency
and making energy efficiency actionable’, Hywel
emphasised. In Sydney, Caoimhin Arden, Director
of projects and advisory services at Energy Action
echoed this sentiment when addressing why metering
is so important ‘It gives visibility to the things you don’t
control, or the things you have lost control of’. TM39
will also provide guidance on how to collect the data to
demonstrate whether actual measured performance
is in line with the design intent. The information from
building energy sub metering also helps to close the
feedback loop between actual measured performance
and design aspirations.
TM39 will be released after incorporating upgrades
resulting from discussions during the ANZ 2017
Seminar Series and will be available freely for CIBSE
members to download from the CIBSE Knowledge
Portal. The speaker presentations are available to
view on the CIBSE ANZ website.
A selection of key memorabilia capturing the last 30
years is available on our website www.cibse.org.au
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