Space Utilization Reporting

Insight On Site

Better energy management comes from a better understanding of a facility. Convia’s Energy Track reporting tool ensures that a property can benefit from “ongoing commissioning,” which means that a building can perform well as time goes by and can expect to save up to 20% on energy expenditures as a result.

But that’s just one of the financial benefits of having better information. With Convia, companies can actually chart past and present space utilization patterns to uncover savings of another kind: in real estate.

After personnel, real estate is the single largest expense for most businesses. As space occupancy costs continue to increase, facility managers seek methods to lower these expenses through improved workplace productivity and overall real estate reductions.

By understanding how rooms in a building are being used, hour after hour, day after day, and month after month, usage patterns emerge.

Convia’s Energy Track reporting tool records electrical use and occupancy of any space in the system. This data tells managers how the space is being used and for what duration. Moreover, these details can be stored and called up later to compare with future space utilization reports.

Based on space utilization trends over time, facility managers gain insight into what are the most productive areas in a building. More importantly, they are given insight into which areas are low-producing spaces in terms of real estate value.

Knowledge is Serious Power

With space utilization results in hand, managers can make strategic decisions about how to improve the real estate value of a working environment. Better space utilization yields more effective resource management, and wasted resources can be identified before they escalate into major expenses.

Better space utilization has countless benefits, including:

• Employees become more accessible to each other
• Worker productivity improves
• Employee satisfaction rises
• Products and supplies are closer
• Storage capacity increases
• Damage to inventory and equipment is reduced
• The need to expand facilities is delayed indefinitely

After extensive reporting, you may find that simple reconfiguration is a better solution than investing in a larger space.

There is another obvious area of savings with the Energy Track reporting tool: Having an automated reporting tool for space utilization is itself a cost savings feature, since a time-consuming manual count of people and offices is rendered obsolete.

Moreover, reconfiguring a space rather than letting it continue to underperform, or in lieu or moving on to an unnecessarily larger one, is an environmentally conscious decision that reduces a company’s carbon footprint, which fits with the core values of progressive corporations.

Optimization Overdrive

Convia offers users a multi-faceted approach to efficiency. A better understanding of space utilization is a significant and practical step towards ongoing optimization and is even more powerful when used in combination with Convia’s Load Balancing application, which lets users set and regularly adjust a building’s maximum power usage, ensuring energy targets are achieved.

Customers using Dynamic Load Balancing™ have the information they need about the occupancy of different areas throughout the day and can prioritize these areas accordingly. When power levels exceed targeted thresholds, lighting levels can then be dimmed in these low occupancy areas.

Learn More. Earn More.

Active measurement and maintenance of energy savings techniques and space utilization are paramount to achieving a sustainable facility. The Energy Track reporting tool gives you information about the occupancy of a space and how that space is being used, so you can minimize your real estate costs and improve overall productivity, which makes Convia the perfect tool for reducing facilities costs.