OPERATION
AND
MANAGEMENT
4.1.1
Green Operation and Management
OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT STAGE
4.1 Operation and Maintenance
Benefits for Office Building
• Higher electricity savings, lower
operating costs, longer building
lifespan and economic payback
• Increase market reputation and
business opportunities
• Reduce regulatory risk when
legislation bans inefficient practices
• Reduce weather-related risk as less
damage caused by extreme weather
Benefits for Office Unit
• Reduce energy consumption and
office operating expenses
• Expand business opportunities and
competitiveness
• Staff awareness and, in return,
higher staff productivity and lower
health costs
• Upgrade of the indoor environment
due to green office design
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Energy Efficiency
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Waste Management
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Green Education and Support
for Staff Members
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Monitoring and Benchmarking
Green Operation and Management
Green Strategies for Office Building
Read more at:
Co. PLC, available at
otz (2013) “Businesses Find Benefits in Going Green” in Entrepreneur, available at
3. Energy Star of U.S. Environmental Pr
Efficiency”, available at
Green Strategies for Office Unit
OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT STAGE
4.1.1 Green Operation and Management
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Intelligent BuildingManagement
Systems
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Energy Efficiency
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Green Education and Support
for Tenants
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Waste Management
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Monitoring and Benchmarking
• Director of sustainable business
solution of an international firm,
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC),
highly recommends business to
adopt sustainability as “it creates
value, attracts customers, retain
employees and improves capital
and funding”
(Source: Entrepreneur)
• Green program named Tenants
Go Green implemented by Aon
Center in Chicago, conducive
to development of good
collaboration with tenants.
Microsoft, one of the tenants,
highly appreciates green benefits
gained through being a partner
in Tenants Go Green
(Source: Environmental Protection Agency of
United States)
Overview
Well-planned operational and
management practices and
procedures are crucial for
long-term implementation and
achievement throughout the
whole process of maintaining a
green office environment.
For a new green office building,
although designers and builders
have contributed to establish
a good foundation for a green
environment, their efforts will
be in vain if the building is
poorly operated and managed.
It will be worse when green
practices are unfamiliar to the
users.
For the non-green office
building, poor operation and
management in achieving
environmental efficiency will
become nearly impossible,
cost-wasting and risky due to
continuous energy inefficiency.
In general, green operation and
management involves a team
effort of “top-down commitment”
from the landlord and “bottom –
up participation” from tenants in
maintaining the building system
and environment and also ongoing
improvement to catch up the green
trend in the long term. The main
green strategies of operation and
management will be elaborated in this
chapter.
Successful examples of office
buildings and units going green
• Developer of United Kingdom, British
Land Company PLC, benefited from
increased value of office portfolio
by 7.3% to £3.6 billion in 2012
after implementing green initiatives
over 2 years. New customers were
attracted to leasing substantial office
areas and occupancy rates increased
to 98%
(Source: British Land Co. PLC)
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