Commercial

A leading real estate services and money management firm, delivering strategic, fully- integrated services for property owners, investors and occupiers. An industry leader in property and corporate facility management services, with a portfolio of over one billion square feet worldwide.

The company manages properties all over the world, including a high profile building in Canary Wharf, which is sublet to a number of leading financial institutions and commercial enterprises. Siemens Metering Services was awarded the contract to provide and maintain a tenants' sub-metering system for the new building.

Siemens Metering Services delivered a metering system that would allow the customer to accurately allocate energy costs per floor - per tenant.

Requirement: Accurate allocation of energy costs

The customer needed to accurately allocate energy costs to each of the tenants in the building to enable accurate billing. It needed to be able to identify exactly how much energy was used by each tenant on each floor, so that they could provide accurate bills as well as energy consumption monitoring.

Customer Requirement:

• enable accurate billing
• access a monitoring system via the internet
• break out costs per floor - per tenant
• install hardware and software for meter assets
• provide expertise in data collection and data management
• provide consultancy on the sub-metering provision

Solution: End-to-end metering package

Siemens Metering Services provided an end-to-end solution, including the design, supply, installation and commissioning of a sub-metering system, as well as meter maintenance and data collection services. A networked metering system was installed in the new Canary Wharf building to monitor over 250 meter points. As part of the data collection service, the data is consolidated into subgroups to enable cost-centre calculations. Regular reports are created which break out the cost and consumption elements.

Siemens Metering Services Solution:

• install AMR sub metering system
• maintenance over the full meter-life cycle
• web-based energy efficiency application
• data management
• bespoke reporting systems

Benefits: Accurate tenant billing and added-value services

With the Siemens Metering Services solution in place the customer is able to bill its tenants monthly, which helps them to manage cash flow and secure cost-coverage. It also helps them to add value to tenants by raising awareness of the electricity used. This information enables tenants to be more energy-aware and to take steps to reduce energy consumption.

Customer Benefits:

• monitor electricity consumption
• bill tenants monthly
• manage cash flow
• satisfy tenants' information needs
• understand accruing costs
• put steps in place to reduce energy expenditure
• data constantly accessible via Intranet
• one supplier for the whole process
• flexible in changing supplier

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