COMMERCIAL ENERGY
Commercial energy audit services.
Walkthrough to investment-grade: audits that find the waste and hand you a funded fix list.
THE SHORT VERSION
What a commercial energy audit includes
A commercial energy audit finds where a building's energy goes and what each fix returns. The auditor reads a year of utility bills, walks every energy-consuming system: HVAC, lighting, envelope, controls, and schedules, then prices the fixes with paybacks attached.
The deliverable is a ranked list, not a lecture. No-cost schedule fixes first, cheap wins next, capital projects last, each with a number beside it. That list becomes the building's energy plan, and every upgrade decision afterward gets easier because it exists.
WHAT'S EXAMINED
What energy auditors actually check
- Twelve months of utility bills and the rate structure behind them
- HVAC equipment condition, schedules, and setpoints
- Lighting types, controls, and hours of operation
- Building envelope: roof, windows, doors, and insulation
- Plug and process loads that run when nobody's there
- How the building actually operates versus how it was designed to
PICKING DEPTH
Which ASHRAE audit level fits your building
Level 1 is the walk-through: bills, a site visit, and the obvious wins. Level 2 adds measurement and engineering analysis with firm numbers per fix. Level 3 is investment-grade, built to justify major capital projects to lenders and boards.
Most buildings start at Level 1 or 2. The rule that protects you: audit rigor should scale with building complexity, and the audit should always cost less than the savings it finds.
AFTER THE AUDIT
What to do with an energy audit report
The report is a to-do list in payback order. Do the free items the week it lands: schedules, setpoints, and shutdowns cost nothing and start saving immediately. Bundle the cheap fixes next, and let their savings help fund the bigger projects.
The audit that sits in a drawer returned nothing. The one that becomes a sequenced plan pays for itself several times over.
Bills climbing without an explanation?
That's what audits are for. Send a recent bill with the request and the scoping starts from real data.
QUESTIONS
Straight answers.
What does an energy audit find?
The usual suspects: equipment running on empty-building schedules, aged lighting, drifted controls, and tired equipment. Each finding comes priced with its payback, ranked so you know what to do first.
How long does an audit take?
A walk-through audit on a typical building is a day on site with the report about a week later. Deeper levels add metering time and analysis.
Is the audit worth it for a small building?
Usually, at the right level. A Level 1 walk-through is inexpensive, and small buildings hide the same schedule and lighting waste big ones do.
What's the difference between an audit and a benchmark?
Benchmarking compares your building's energy use to similar buildings and tells you IF there's a problem. The audit walks the building and tells you WHERE, and what fixing it costs and returns.
GET STARTED
Get the building audited.
Tell us the building's size and what the bills look like. An audit scoped to the right level comes back priced flat.