Green Building
The fundamental Principles of Green Building are, Structure Design Efficiency, Energy Efficiency, Water Efficiency, Materials Efficiency, Indoor Quality Enhancement, Optimisation of maintenance and Operations with the Reduction of waste. All of these principles combined produce a greater cumulative effect in the enhancement of our environment. Through Sustainable Design we eliminate the negative impact on the environment and require no non-renewable resources in the construction of the building. Recycling of disposable water for construction, washing, watering and flushing of toilets by means of dual plumbing are also major contributors to conservation of our ecosystem. Building Management Systems are set in place to make sure that the building runs at optimal performance with the least impact on the environment, ensuring sustainable power without draining our natural resources. By minimising the impact on the environment we can now relate people to a more sustainable and natural environment with the least damage to the ecosystem.
ROI with BMS
Before the proposed ESKOM increase, the financial benefits of implementing a full scale Building Management System was that the break-even point was typically 3 to 7 years depending on new or retrofitted BMS deployments. With GES's advancement in technology, the payback on the same buildings is visible by well under 18 months. GES a division of Sandbox Holdings, with the intention of researching and developing its own energy standards template and measurement methodology to assist building owners and administrators of various synergistic solutions to benchmark their own energy consumption to comparative buildings on a best practice basis. GES have been able to demonstrate that by managing the energy usage to a targeted benchmark with a 30% plus saving that we are able to create a safety net for future impactful electrical increases.
