The importance of a NABERS roadmap
NABERS provides a benchmark for understanding how buildings perform in operation. Strong ratings can help reduce energy costs, support environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting, attract tenants and improve long-term asset value. Achieving meaningful improvement hinges on how buildings are operated, maintained and continuously optimised over time.
We help building owners and operators integrate NABERS into operational decision-making through data analysis, building tuning and targeted improvement strategies. By understanding how your building is performing today, we identify practical opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce consumption and support long-term performance outcomes.
How we develop a NABERS roadmap
Energy consumption review
We begin by analysing how and where energy and water are being used in the building. This gives a baseline for understanding general operating trends and allows to identify unexpected patterns of use.
Gap analysis
Based on our understanding of how the building is performing, including any current NABERS Energy and Water ratings, we assess the overall improvement required to achieve the targeted performance.
Functional design review
We review available design data to understand the principal engineering systems in operation, including the intended operation of automatic controls for all these systems.
Operational review
We now review the actual operation and condition of the existing plant and equipment to identify areas for improvement. Based on this information, we gather all issues into potential improvement initiatives.
Detailed assessment
We assess each initiative identified during the operational review to determine its potential performance benefit. These allow for full visibility of the impacts of each option and their relative value.
Recommendations
We prioritise implementation of the initiatives that have been identified. Where possible, we seek to provide efficiencies by aligning implementation with plant lifecycle replacement, back-to-base works at the end of tenant leases and other routine asset management activities.
Design facilitation
We can help with the implementation of initiatives through our teams of building services engineers.
Validation
We can liaise with a NABERS assessor to verify your target rating.
