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Global integrated property services group Colliers International today announced the launch of a powerful new environmental management system – branded Envirometrics – for the corporate real estate sector, developed in partnership with CarbonSystems Australia.

The ‘Envirometrics’ platform gives building managers and owners information to better manage building environmental performance and meet compliance based reporting requirements.

Colliers International has been implementing Envirometrics since 1 July 2010 across buildings in its commercial properties portfolio that have a net lettable area of 2,000sq m or more.

The system is a property-centric version of CarbonSystems’ Enterprise Sustainability Platform (ESP) developed specifically to meet the needs of Colliers International.

Simon Cox, Colliers International Head of Sustainability and National Director of Real Estate Management, says Envirometrics meets a real need in the property market, which has been transformed by stakeholder demands to improve the environmental performance of real estate assets.

“Regulations governing performance standards for leased and owned premises, legislation such as mandatory disclosure of commercial office building energy efficiency, and tenant demand are all drivers for property owners and managers to monitor and report environmental performance as a routine part of their responsibilities,” he says.

“Good environmental performance in the property sector is a function of efficient property operations, especially in the areas of energy use and efficiency. Envirometrics provides the means to achieve tangible fiscal savings by addressing these issues.

“Put simply, this is a better way for Colliers to reduce operating costs and improve the environmental performance of its commercial property portfolio.

“Envirometrics gives property managers the ability to generate tailored business reports revealing performance on a range of environmental metrics.

“For example, building benchmark reports will provide information on electricity, gas, waste and water use in a client-managed building compared to best practice, such as in a NABERS 5 Star building.

David Solsky, CarbonSystems Managing Director, says using Envirometrics to monitor the environmental performance of its property portfolio allows Colliers’ property managers to target areas of excessive consumption and identify opportunities for improvement.

“It provides a performance management framework for internal benchmarking to evaluate the impacts of energy and environmental programs,” he said.

“Equally importantly, it gives property owners the data they need to track and evaluate the payback period and return on investment of efficiency and environmental initiatives, thereby bringing accountability to environmental initiatives.”

Colliers International was the first company in the property sector to be listed on the Corporate Responsibility Index and was an inaugural signatory to the Cityswitch Green Office program. The company was a founding member of the Green Building Council of Australia and the World Green Building Council.

Read about the benefits Colliers has seen to date in this case study.

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