Post-acceptance Energy Audit

The building post-acceptance energy audit model is used for the energy auditing of new and renovated service facilities.

The building Post-acceptance Energy Audit analyses a new or renovated facility’s distribution of energy and water use, presents recommendations for improving economic energy efficiency, and ensures the economic energy use and functioning of technology and good internal conditions.

A building Post-acceptance Energy Audit is made for a new building, when energy use has stabilized and there is already some experience of the building’s technological systems and possible faults and defects have been observed. If the audit is made during the guarantee period, the audit can note reparation needs within the range of the guarantee.

The audit reveals the defects caused by the running and use of the building’s technological systems, which affect the building’s consumption of energy and its indoor conditions. Good indoor conditions refer to such things as appropriate heating, ventilation and lighting in the various rooms of the building from the point of view of users.

In connection with carrying out the audit, guidance is given for technical users on factors that influence the energy economy and indoor conditions, and to survey the opinions of people using the building on the indoor conditions implemented.

A building Post-acceptance Energy Audit does not replace the need for a proper building acceptance procedure. The building Post-acceptance Energy Audit is suitable for analysing the energy saving possibilities of public and commercial buildings with the conventional technical systems.

On the basis of data on energy use and a thorough inventory of the building, the audit investigates the amount of unnecessary energy consumption and defines remunerative energy saving measures.