A tool to support building energy management

1. See your energy use against typical use

Our building energy analysis could help you save up to 40%.

Monitoring energy use combined with taking informed efficiency measures can help your business save between 10-40% of energy bills.

Typical and best practice building energy performance benchmarks used in SMEasure come from the Certified Institute of Buildings Service Engineers (CIBSE). There are benchmarks for most types of buildings. These same benchmarks are used in the construction of the Display Energy Certificate.

2. Find out where you are now - see where you can be

All public buildings more than > 1,000 m2 are required to have a valid Display Energy Certificate displayed.

By using SMEasure you will get an indicative DEC A-G rating before spending £500 on the certificate - therefore giving you the opportunity to get a higher rating before getting certified.

3. See energy used over time

• Shows seasonal energy useage
• Identify high-energy consumption weeks
• Identify abnormal energy use quickly

4. Compare energy used against heating degree days

• Identify higher and lower energy use weeks
• Provides opportunity for review and track action
• Analyse space heating usage
  (the steeper the line = the more leakage)
• Scattered data represents how energy use follows the weather
  (low scatter = ✔ high scatter = ✘)
• A bad scatter is often due to a poor or faulty heating control system

Why was SMEasure created?

The tool is developed by building energy researchers from Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute and its purpose was to address:

• The poor quality of building energy analysis data, which has an effect on research and work on reducing the energy use and carbon emissions
• The lack of web-based building energy analysis tools specifically designed for the needs of small and medium sized businesses (SMEs)

The anonymised data collected through SMEasure directly feeds into advancing building energy research and in turn improves the information we can give to business about targeting energy use.

Account options

A single account

Manage an individual or multiple buildings within a single account.

Guest users can be invited to have access to a building profile, but are given no editing privileges to the account.

A federated account

Invitation only, if interested please contact us to be invited to test.

Ideal if a business has buildings geographically spread and/or is a franchise business. May also be suitable for community-based energy monitoring and reduction initiatives.

Administered by an account ‘owner’, who invites colleagues to be a ‘building manager’ for particular buildings.

Any data sharing setting preferences within SMEasure (e.g. within a federated account) are determined by the account owner. See the terms and conditions and privacy policy for further details.

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Comments or questions

Please contact the SMEasure team to ask us anything about the technical and business development of SMEasure.