Written for futr singapore.
Excerpt
Like many other sustainable initiatives, even green buildings are at risk of greenwashing. We spoke with Deb Noller, CEO of Switch Automation, who readily concurs.
“It takes a lot more work to genuinely address the energy footprint of a building and reduce the energy used to the absolute minimum without impacting safety and comfort,” she says. Beyond easy targets, building owners have to “look at equipment performance, peak loads and demand response, optimisation and minimisation” as the next steps in achieving ‘green’.
It’s a unique perspective that Switch Automation offers, as the company centres its focus around tenant experience and “harnesses building data, systems and equipment, and applies advanced fault detection and diagnostics (FDD)”. Among other things, these help uncover hidden inefficiencies, save energy and maintenance and repair costs. These cost-saving perks can cascade down from the building management to the tenant level.
Beyond government regulation and real estate owners’ commitment to sustainable buildings, tenants themselves too have to take ownership, Deb believes.
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Samantha Phua 