One of our flagship buildings in South London, Edinburgh House, formerly a 1960s housing block, was redeveloped in 2019 into a bright and open business centre, home to 78 businesses. 

Whilst it achieved a BREEAM Very Good certification and a B-Rated Energy Performance Certificate, it showed an unusually high energy usage at the start of 2022. As a result, we rethought the heating and cooling controls strategy and schedules to meet customers’ needs and avoid out-of-hours energy consumption. 

These measures drove an 11% reduction in energy usage across the building - a great example of how effective operational energy reduction initiatives can be. Whilst retrofit investments are sometimes essential, simple adjustments to the heating can also prove very powerful energy savers.