Audits and Due Dilligence

Energy Audits

Energy audits are implemented for reasons of survey and analysis of energy flows for energy conservation in buildings, processes or systems to reduce the amount of energy input into the system without negatively affecting the output.

Our  experience enables us to rapidly identify potential savings, to develop appropriate solutions, and to evaluate these in terms of their economic efficiency and feasibility.

Audits for sustainable buildings

Currently Vienna Engineers has available 5 certified auditors for the assessment of sustainable buildings. Theses ÖGNI-certified auditors register your project for certification, accompany your project during each project stage and over the entire project. They collect and submit all the necessary documentation to the certification board.

Capacity Building

Vienna Engineers Experts have delivered indoor training programmes in project management for private companies (e.g. METRO AG in Istanbul/Turkey, SES – Société de Satellites-ASTRA in Luxembourg) as well as for academics at the Technical University of Vienna and for the Chamber of Commerce of Lower Austria.

In PHARE – Support to the Introduction of Environmental Management and Auditing Systems in the Czech Republic, Vienna Engineers Experts supported the Ministry of Environment by being responsible for the whole training package. The trainings reached about 400 participants altogether, with 25 different courses delivered, including the “train the trainers” package. Vienna Engineers Experts were responsible for the total design, the development of the case studies, the manuals, the training executive manual and the implementation itself, with selection and evaluation of trainers, course organisation, tests and certification of participants. Consortium leader in this project was Pricewaterhouse Coopers.

Vienna Engineers Experts also participate in the EC-funded Lifelong Learning Programme, where the focus lies on vocational educational training. The company designs and implements courses and curricula in the following topics:

• Regional development
• Environmental management
• Renewable energy and energy efficiency
• Project management and financing

Certification

Green Building certificates

6 experts of VIENNA ENGINEESRS are skilled in the trade of ÖGNI auditors. These auditors register  projects for certification and submit the necessary documents to the certification commission. The auditors also instruct builder-owners in how to design and build sustainable buildings and in achieving green building certificates in platinum, gold and silver.

Project Design

For all different trades in a project this shall include (but is not limited to):

• Overall layout and landscape, schedules of accommodation
• Predesign and Masterplanning
• Tender Design with Bill of Quantities and Specifications
• Detailed Design for all different trades in a project
• As-Built Design
• Maintenance Programme Setup

Project Implementation

For all trades in a project:

• Project Management
• Project and Site-Supervision
• Acceptance Testing and Handover Procedures
• Commercial Supervision of the Contractor
• Representation of the Client in technical and commercial matters
• Post Project Services including default elimination, maintenance programme supervision etc.

Studies

Energy audits

6 experts of VIENNA ENGINEESRS are skilled in the trade of ÖGNI auditors. These auditors register  projects for certification and submit the necessary documents to the certification commission. The auditors also instruct builder-owners in how to design and build sustainable buildings and in achieving green building certificates in gold, silver or bronze.
 Since 2012, the Austrian Society for Sustainable Real Estate sets (ÖGNI) strong pulse on paradigm shift towards sustainability. The club is an initiative of more than 250 well-known companies, institutions and experts in the construction and real estate industry and has the 3P approach consisting of

• Products – Blue or Green Buildings and sustainable building materials
• Processes – new processing models, corporate governance, CSR and compliance and risk management, and
• Persons who have the necessary knowledge, developed.

Objectives of the action are transparency, professionalization and an international anchoring of the Austrian construction and real estate industry. The club is distinguished from flagship projects of sustainable building with the international DGNB certificate and certified construction and real estate companies in their ethical behavior.

Our full-scale energy audits and subsequent implementation of the recommended actions include the following services:

• Assessment of the status quo and determination of the energy efficiency of an industrial facility
• Preparation of the current energy balance
• Calculation of potential energy savings
• Identification of potential to increase (internal and external) efficiency
• Analysis of resources and possible use of regional resources
• Evaluation of the commercial and technical feasibility as well as the practicality of the individual steps
• Return on investment calculations and analysis of the economic benefits
• Preparation of a master concept
• Monitoring and support of the entire implementation process
• Final report and assessment of the project outputs

Our energy audits comply with EN 16247 and our internal energy audits for energy management systems comply with ISO 50001.

The following are areas in which experience has shown that latent savings can be tapped:

• Energy supply and distribution
• Electrical drives (efficiency of engines, rotary speed regulation, etc.)
• Supply of pressurised air (leeks, capacity utilisation, dimensioning)
• Energy efficiency in manufacturing facilities and buildings (heating plants, air conditioning
and insulation)
• Lighting in offices, manufacturing facilities and warehouses
• Heat recovery (ventilation, waste heat, exhaust heat recovery, waste water, etc.)
• Boilers (efficiency ratings, in-house energy requirements, heat recovery, etc.)
• Use of cogeneration technology, independent power generation (combined heat and …power, gas and steam turbines)
• Use of renewable energy sources
• Energy purchasing (procurement and supply contracts)
• Plant and energy-saving contracting

Vienna Engineers Experts have delivered indoor training programmes in project management for private companies (e.g. METRO AG in Istanbul/Turkey, SES – Société de Satellites-ASTRA in Luxembourg) as well as for academics at the Technical University of Vienna and for the Chamber of Commerce of Lower Austria.
 

In PHARE – Support to the Introduction of Environmental Management and Auditing Systems in the Czech Republic, Vienna Engineers Experts supported the Ministry of Environment by being responsible for the whole training package. The trainings reached about 400 participants altogether, with 25 different courses delivered, including the “train the trainers” package. Vienna Engineers Experts were responsible for the total design, the development of the case studies, the manuals, the training executive manual and the implementation itself, with selection and evaluation of trainers, course organisation, tests and certification of participants. Consortium leader in this project was Pricewaterhouse Coopers.

Vienna Engineers Experts also participate in the EC-funded Lifelong Learning Programme, where the focus lies on vocational educational training. The company designs and implements courses and curricula in the following topics:

• Regional development
• Environmental management
• Renewable energy and energy efficiency
• Project management and financing

For all trades in a project:

• Project Management
• Project and Site-Supervision
• Acceptance Testing and Handover Procedures
• Commercial Supervision of the Contractor
• Representation of the Client in technical and commercial matters
• Post Project Services including default elimination, maintenance programme supervision etc.