Pulse Energy office uses new competition module and reduces energy use by 8.8%

Over the week of August 30th to September 3rd, we conducted an energy savings campaign in our office building at 576 Seymour St. We used the new Pulse Competitions module to track and display our savings. Our goal was to reduce our building’s weekly energy consumption by 3%. With the help of the other 5 companies in our building, we managed to exceed our goal and realize an 8.8% reduction, saving about 350 kWh.

The Building

576 Seymour Street is a 35,000 square foot, 6-storey, heritage office building located in downtown Vancouver. The building accommodates about 200 occupants at 6 companies ranging from jewellers and high-end audio visual equipment sales to law and architect offices.

For each day of the campaign, we encouraged building occupants to focus on a specific energy savings action.

Monday: Lighting reduction

On Monday, we targeted reducing excessive or unnecessary lighting. We offered a free lighting audit to interested companies, dimmed or turned off lights where it wasn’t needed and removed about 20 32W bulbs from ballasts that provided unnecessarily bright lighting. The actions netted fairly small savings, partially because the action ended up being spread across a few days and partially because most overhead lights were already off at this time of year.

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