Your building envelope represents a whopping 40% of your commercial building’s energy performance. Hello energy savings opportunity!
When you think of the term energy savings, what comes to mind? Like most business owners and property managers, you probably envision HVAC maintenance and repairs. However, there is another huge opportunity for energy savings lying in plain sight – your building envelope, which represents a whopping 40% of your commercial building’s energy performance.
What is the Building Envelope?
The building envelope is the physical barrier between the conditioned air of your commercial facility and the unconditioned air on the outside. Your envelope encompasses your walls, roof, doors, and windows. These barriers play an incredibly important role in the overall energy efficiency of your building.
Controlling Energy Loss with Proactive Maintenance
Your Roof: Your First Line of Defense against Weather and Your First Source of Energy Loss
Out of sight, out of mind – this simple saying is, unfortunately, how many property managers and business owners feel about roof maintenance. But this sort of thinking can not only cut your roof’s lifespan in half, but also lead to some pretty serious energy loss. In fact, moisture problems and air leaks account for roughly 25% of the average commercial building’s energy loss. With proactive maintenance, repairs, and improvements, you can extend the lifespan of a roof.
Everything Else: Your Walls, Doors, and Windows Are No Less Important
There is your roof and then there is everything else – your walls, doors, and windows. These areas account for 35%, 15%, and 10% of a commercial building’s energy loss, respectively. Energy loss can be controlled with some easy repairs, such as caulking and weatherstripping. Don’t forget to look at emergency exits for possible energy savings.
Finding Those Huge Energy Savings
Using building diagnostics, you can easily pinpoint areas of energy loss and moisture issues, allowing you to take action while the problems are still relatively small. As the old saying goes, a stitch in time saves nine. With monitoring technologies, sensors, thermoscans and aerial infrared building surveys, you can identify and implement proactive, preventive maintenance measures to keep your building envelope in tip-top shape.
By taking the same proactive approach to your building envelope as you do HVAC maintenance, you can greatly improve energy efficiency, cut energy costs, and increase building comfort. In fact, when the building skin is more efficient, heating and cooling systems benefit as well with improved efficiency. Improvements to the building envelope can reduce the need for air conditioning by 20-30%.
Find Energy Savings with Crockett Facilities Services, Inc.
To improve the performance of your building, align yourself with an award-wining mechanical contractor who has a proven track record. We help building owners, property managers and facility engineers to lower their operating expenses and energy costs through preventive maintenance, repairs, and retrofits. We proactively identify issues before they become problems, ensuring that your tenants are comfortable, reducing occupant complaints.
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