Global Resource Efficiency Services
GRES is dedicated to providing the best solutions, services, training, support, technologies and products for eco friendly, sustainable renewable and efficient projects and solutions.
Our Approach - Integration
An essential element in saving building operating costs and improving the environment is to ensure that a facility is viewed as an integral operation – equipment and operating practices work together to realize possible gains. Realizing our vision of a sustainable future by cost-effectively “greening” buildings required us to develop strategies that sustain-ably integrate operating processes and the most appropriate technologies, with our clients’ business plans. GRES provides three broad types of service to deliver this integration: planning, education, measures.
Planning
For building owners, a lack of return on investment has always been the most significant barrier to undertaking environmental measures.
Education: GRES helps organizations learn to become more resource efficient.
Measures: The expense of conducting business is on the rise as fuel, electricity, natural gas, and water prices skyrocket.
Our Program: A resource efficiency building awareness program promotes conservation of utility resources through a proven management process, using established procedures and tools. The goal of the training program is to produce and sustain energy savings and environmental benefits. The program cost investment is to be repaid from operating cost savings generated in the buildings.
There are five (5) core resource efficiency
building awareness program components, that when combined maximize the success of a program implementation. These are represented in the diagram below.
1. Needs Assessment
Each organization presents its own unique context requiring identification of their specific training and resource needs, as well as consultation in determining the priorities of those needs. Needs assessment also helps to define the scope and timing of the program implementation, as well as customize the training mode and content.
Needs are identified/determined through individual and group interview activities that attempt to gather information on past and current resource efficiency efforts and existing resources available to support the implementation of the training program components. Through this process of interviewing, desired outcomes are also determined, and barriers identified to achieving those outcomes. Information gathered is analyzed and reported back to the client along with recommendations for training focus, and a draft implementation work plan for discussion. This report is also effective in gathering baseline information, helping to gain senior management enrollment by serving as the groundwork for discussion, and organizing of initial program funding.
2. Monitoring & Verification
Energy and utility management must become embedded in daily O&M behavior and practice is sustainable savings are to be achieved. GRES’s approach emphasized the development of a workable O&M process rather than the piece-mealimplementation of cost-savings projects. Our resource managers in conjunction with GRES’s substantial information database help clients develop programs that make energy and utility management a key component of O&M
3. Web Info Centre
The Web Info Center is an Internet web site that serves as an information portal for all resource conservation activities within the organization. It provides as a centralized location to store all documents pertaining to resource conservation as well as provide access to all learning and reference manuals. The web site is also branded as the client’s and customized to display regionally relevant information, learning resources and web links.
This web-based application is also used to store inventoried equipment and building information, and records of activities and actions for each facility. This storage of information helps to sustain the program and insure its longevity.
4. Building Occupant Awareness (BOA) Training
Occupant Awareness Training events are typically presented to building occupants with the goal of creating the awareness, and provide the knowledge that will encourage and support lifestyle action that results is resource efficiency savings in school district occupant buildings. Findings in the needs assessment are incorporated into the content of the Occupant Awareness Training program in order to make learning especially relevant to occupants’ daily workplace activities.
Topics covered include those aspects of lighting, electrical, HVAC, and water management that building where occupants can influence sustainability and costs savings.
5. O&M Training & Documentation
An O&M training program has been designed to integrate the development of Standards of Performance for building operations, for presentation in 3 workshops formatted sessions. Standards of Performance for building operations are needed to benchmark building performance against optimum efficient operation. The standards must be measurable and quantifiable and understood by building operation personnel.
The Building Operation Training Workshops have been developed specifically to assist in this Continuing Education process for facility operation and maintenance staff.
To find out more in depth information on GRES you can find us at:
Email: info@gresworld.com
Ph: 780-433-8702
Fax: 780-433-3792
Address: 6328 A 104 Street, Edmonton, Alberta T6H 2K9
