TRIRIGA Real Estate Environmental Sustainability (TREES™)
TRIRIGA® Real Estate Environmental Sustainability reduces energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions
Today's executives must understand which successful business strategies driven by environmental considerations drive lasting value. The U.S. government concludes that buildings account for a staggering 48 percent of energy consumption and produce the majority of greenhouse gas emissions. Real estate strategies focused on the reduction of buildings' environmental impact represent the greatest opportunity to reduce costs, generate energy savings and increase stakeholder value.
TRIRIGA Real Estate Environmental Sustainability (TREES™) uniquely delivers the software capabilities required to achieve sustainable environmental strategies. TREES embedded assessment tools inventory and measure environmental impacts of buildings. TREES integrated analysis tools evaluate environmental opportunities for the greatest financial and environmental return. TREES pre-defined processes and practices reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
Measure: Embedded Assessment Tools Measure Environmental and Financial Performance
Implementation of an environmental sustainability strategy starts with collection and compilation of critical workplace asset information, including energy consumption and emissions data, into a single shared database repository. Embedded assessment tools use this data to accurately calculate and measure the environmental and financial impacts of the real estate portfolio. TREES embedded measurement capabilities include:
- TRIRIGA Carbon Value Analysis, which integrates the Greenhouse Gas Protocol to accurately calculate carbon footprints of real property assets and operations.
- Integrated ESRI Geographic Information System (GIS), which maps carbon footprint and other environmental performance metrics of an organization's locations.
- Integrated LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) rating system, which automatically calculates and scores environmental sustainability of workplace assets and operations for each building
Manage: Integrated Analysis Tools Identify and Evaluate Opportunities to Improve Environmental Sustainability
The next step in the implementation of an environmental sustainability strategy requires a system to identify and evaluate environmental opportunities to improve energy efficiency and energy savings at the building level and overall real estate portfolio level. TREES provides integrated analysis tools to compile and compare environmental opportunities at the building and real estate portfolio levels to optimize capital spend, financial return and environmental reduction. These tools include:
- TRIRIGA Facility Assessment, which collects and identifies environmental opportunities for existing buildings in the portfolio.
- TRIRIGA's Energy Value Calculator, which includes ENERGY STAR® calculations to estimate savings points, impact on carbon footprint and overall savings from opportunities to reduce environmental impacts across the portfolio.
- TRIRIGA Energy Opportunity Summary, which prioritizes and reports on environmental opportunities across the real estate portfolio based upon Energy Value Calculator results.
Reduce: Pre-Defined Workplace Processes and Practices Improve and Ensure Sustainability and Financial Performance
The final step towards implementation of an environmental sustainability strategy requires a system that provides integrated operational processes and practices to reduce environmental impact of buildings and provides the necessary audit trails, metrics and reports to ensure alignment and compliance with environmental sustainability objectives. These tools include:
- TRIRIGA Operations improves energy efficiency of critical building systems and assets with integrated demand and preventive maintenance processes.
- TRIRIGA Real Estate's pre-defined processes and practices ensure compliance with sustainability goals and metrics
- TRIRIGA Facilities improves space utilization and reduces space demand with pre-defined space management processes to reduce carbon footprints.
TRIRIGA Workplace Performance Management: A Comprehensive Suite of Applications
TRIRIGA Real Estate Environmental Sustainability (TREES™) consists of two purpose-built applications which complement and integrate with the operations management applications of TRIRIGA Workplace Enterprise Management and TRIRIGA Workplace Performance Management suites to improve environmental performance.
- TREES Portfolio measures the environmental impact of the real property portfolio.
- TREES Enterprise measures, manages and reduces the environmental impact of the real property portfolio.
To find out more about how TREES improves the bottom line and creates shareholder value, contact an expert at 702-932-4444.