The Savings Finder

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Welcome to The Savings Finder. To get started, let’s look at your energy use first.

Our team has delivered over 3,000 resource efficiency audits in Scotland over the last 10 years. We’ve found that organisations that take action to become more energy efficient have cut their energy bills by up to 30%.

Are you interested in improving your energy efficiency? *

Please select energy saving areas that you would like to investigate further *

Office heating

Industrial heating

Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems for large spaces

Lighting/lighting controls

Building fabric (insultation and glazing and fittings to reduce heat loss)

Office equipment

Air compressors

Motors

Refrigeration

How is your office heated?

How old is the boiler for your office?

What type of industrial heating system do you use?

How old is your industrial oil or LPG boiler? *

Are any of the ceilings in your premises over 5m high? *

Do you have a meter installed for your LPG or oil heater?

Is there space at your premises for a larger boiler and fuel storage and suitable access for lorries to deliver fuel?

Are any of the following used/undertaken by your heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system?

A 4 degree 'deadband' between the temperature that heating turn off and the temperature that cooling systems switch on

Damper or variable speed drive (VSD) controls

A building management system (BMS)

Heat recovery

Cooling below 24°C

Free cooling (using cold outside air at suitable times of year)

No/don't know

How is lighting controlled in the building?

Manually switched

Zonally controlled manually switched

Daylight control

Presence detection

Presence detection with daylight control

Don't know

What type of roof does your building have? *

What type of outer walls does your building have? *

Does your building have double or secondary glazing? *

Yes

Don't know

Which of the following have you fitted to reduce heat loss?

Draught excluders fitted to doors and windows

Automatic closers on external doors

Reflective panels behind radiators on external walls

Air curtains or fast close shutters

PVC curtains between conditioned and non-conditioned areas

None

Does your office have or do any of the following?

Automated shutdown software for IT equipment or a shutdown policy

Vending machines

A policy to preferentially purchase energy efficient equipment

Printers assigned to individual employees

Timer plugs fitted to printers and photocopiers

Black and white printing set as default

Standby features enabled on photocopiers

No/don't know

Does your organisation have or do any of the following?

A compressed-air usage policy

A system in place to ensure compressed air is turned off when not in use

Regularly check that the delivered air pressure from the compressed air system does not exceed what is required

Regularly check for leaks

Check intake and filters regularly for blockages

Record air volume produced against energy consumption

Use warm air resulting from the machinery for space heating

No/don't know

Does your organisation have or do any of the following?

A motors policy for sizing and replacing motors

Variable speed drives fitted to motors where appropriate

Rewind old motors

No/don't know

Does your organisation check the following?

Seals on refrigeration equipment

That refrigerators are set to the required temperature

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