CIBSE AWARD WINNER | CARBON INTELLIGENCE EYES ON ENERGY Building Performance Awards winner Carbon Intelligence has helped its clients save more than 17,000 tonnes CO2e from 2019 to 2010, while readying buildings for safe reoccupation following the pandemic lockdowns. Andy Pearson finds out how its data platform uses non-invasive technology to monitor and manage building energy use Above: Carbon 100,000 of savings per year at Liverpool Ones retail estate W ere a team of strategists, technologists and engineers who believe in business as the solution to a zero carbon world. Thats what Carbon Intelligence declared on its entry to the 2021 CIBSE Building Performance Awards, at which it won the Building Performance Consultancy (51-300 employees) accolade. As such, the business works with organisations to help them achieve their sustainability, energy and carbon-reduction goals. Over the past decade, Carbon Intelligence has assisted predominantly commercial real estate organisations to understand and optimise their building performance strategies, which, it claims, has helped clients save more than 7m and 17,000 tonnes of CO2e from 2019 to 2020. Carbon Intelligences approach to sustainability is underpinned by its six-dimensions framework, which is recognised by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. This framework is the lens through which it delivers its services including those of building performance and optimisation which, it says, ensures an integrated approach to setting and delivering credible net zero and environmental, social and governance targets. Carbon Intelligences approach is to work with businesses as a trusted partner and adviser, integrating our team to become an extension of theirs. CIBSE TM22 Energy assessment and reporting methodology is a key document for the firm. Its engineers have extensive training in its use, and the document is employed as a model for energy audits, to better understand building energy use. Using secure, non-invasive technology, Carbon Intelligence gathers data across 32 December 2021 www.cibsejournal.com CIBSE Dec21 pp32-33 Carbon Intelligence.indd 32 26/11/2021 16:49