Environmental performance in real estate

Today, environmental performance in real estate has become a major concern for many players. Water and fluids in the buildings management represents such a major point of this performance. The corporate real estate (SIMI) which runs from 5 to 7 December 2012 in the Palais des Congrès de Paris is an opportunity to analyze the changes in the sector and to the launch of Ocea Smart Building, the new entity of Suez Environment, expert real estate performance management.

Environmental performance in the real estate concerns all types of residential and tertiary buildings and must be parsed through the habits of consumption of the inhabitants and the occupants. Water and fluids management is one of the levers of this environmental performance. Beyond the water, the building is the economic sector the most energy intensive of our country with nearly 46% of the total final energy consumption. It is in this context and against the predominant weight of the building in the energy consumption of the country surrounding the Grenelle 1 and especially the Grenelle 2 environment, complemented by the thermal regulation 2012 proposed programs to large scale energy consumption reduction of the buildings.

GDF SUEZ / REDUCED FRANCK / MICHELE BOURGEOIS ARCHITECT DPLG

Ocea Smart Building, real estate performance management expert
Born in July 2012 for the rapprochement of three subsidiaries of Suez Environnement (CASCO, Isiom and Lyonnaise des water PRO), Casco Smart Building today is the only actor to cover the whole value chain, from the collection of the data until the restitution portal and business intelligence. This new player is positioned on the market of the real estate performance management to help measure and analyze consumption, reduce the environmental footprint and finally to comply with regulatory standards.

Better manage its water consumption
Social landlords and owners will have to make available to the tenants, modern tools to individually control their consumption. Today, the challenge lies in the mastery of the charges relating to the fluid (cold, hot water, electricity, gas, heating). Ocea Smart Building has put in place a service "warning leak" that can generate on average more than 10% of water through fast shipments of mails and SMS. Another solution, an ISI Habitat portal that offers multi energy control to control the distribution of loads through the implementation of meter remote reading of energy consumption of water, gas, electricity, heating, temperature. This device allows a daily consumption of homes online tracking and alert the donors and the residents in the event of abnormal consumption. Beyond these technical tools, personalized support is also set up with for example the communication of instructions and behaviours (economic and environmental) to be followed by the inhabitants.

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