Eco

WHEELS

Executive Summary:

Business and community are becoming very much aware that they cannot continue to build homes (BCA - Class 1-4) as well as buildings and offices (BCA - Class 5-9) and use energy resources as they have in the past. Governments have created a rating system to establish a ranking system for buildings as to the efficiency in which energy is used, AGBRS (Australia Green Building Rating System) (Five Star Green Star).

But how is this rating system applied, by whom, at what cost and how can buildings that are “energy sick” or “Sick” be, refurbished, modified and repaired?

Who, how and what is the financial justification to move to “greener” buildings? Who rates (creates the prognosis) and who can offer solutions (the diagnosis) and offer an Eco solution to the issues and raise the building AGBRS rating system at the same time. 

Doing this without “Green Washing”? 

The aim of the Eco WHEELS, consortium is the creation of a vertically integrated entity made up of environmental change professional’s in their practices that can offer:

• Advice, Support and Solutions on energy savings and energy building performance in; Water, HVAC, Energy, Electrical, Lighting and Solar.
• Accounting Economic Scenario Financial Modelling;
• AGBRS Auditing;
• Eco Solutions and on-going advice
• Energy Saving Results
• Carbon Footprint Reduction
• Carbon neutral solutions
• Communications

Eco WHEELS Delivery & Offering:

What Eco WHEELS brings to the table?

     •          The Eco WHEELS will bring together its joint venture members organisations with key and specific experience in their industry sectors.

     •          The skills and experience of each group complement the other creating a powerful and unique organisation.

     •          Eco WHEELS provide a ‘holistic solution’ to commercial building sustainability management by providing specialist services in:

            1.       Customer situation analysis

            2.       Audits, measurement & verification (including current & historical baseline analysis)

            3.       Strategy development and target implementation

            4.       Advocacy (education & awareness at all levels from the CEO down)

            5.       Partnerships with specific sustainability technology  and service providers

            6.       Monitoring and reporting of change implementation including a customer buy-in Graphical User Interface (GUI)

            7.       Systems management

            8.       Specialist marketing & communications (including various forms of media & promotion)

            9.       Accessing grants, private equity and development funding

            10.   Legislation requirements, carbon trading and reporting

In conclusion

There are not many organisations in Australia that can offer a total design solution and an implementation solution for retrofitting buildings under the “one roof”.   This can be achieved by Eco WHEELS, group that can:

     1.       Establish the building’s carbon footprint

     2.       Classify the building,

     3.       Offers a total solution strategy via a:

            a.       Qualitative and quantitative Eco reporting, measured and verified

            b.      Financially modelled and measured

            c.       Results that are accountable and verifiable

            d.      With a total internal and external communications strategy

            e.      Delivering “the Fix” for the client

Eco WHEELS is about sustainable buildings, comfort for building occupants, a return for building owners as well as building energy conservation and energy cost savings.

There is often no one fix for a building nor is there a single solution to the dilemma of how to remedy and communicate the issues of energy reduction and building comfort.

Eco WHEELS, as project managers would bring together an alliance of practitioners working under the “virtual one roof” to provide a holistic solution to the above issues, vertically integrate their services as a holistic seamless process.