Company Profile: Energy Conservation

Level 20, 68 Pitt St
SYDNEY, New South Wales, 2000, Australia

Web site: www.energyconservation.com.au
Email: savings@energyconservation.com.au

We provide the following professional products/services:

• Energy Audits (ONSITE & ONLINE)
• Building Energy Assessment Services (BCA Section J, NABERS & NaTHERS etc)
• Power Factor Correction Services
• Energy Saver timer

A summary of our organisation: Energy Conservation consists of an collaboration of three Engineers; two Mechanical Engineers (Robert McMahon & Angelo Franco) & one Electrical Engineer (Erwin Tischler). In total they have around 100-years of experience in a vast variety of engineering fields. This experience is topped up with a total of around 15-years of full-time experience in energy conservation, energy efficiency and energy auditing etc.

Robert McMahon (our business owner) was born in Sydney, Australia into a seafaring family. His father was a Bosun who died when Robert was aged 3 and his grandfather was a Master Mariner.

Robert’s stepfather was a commercial fisherman so he had a very strong connection with the water when growing up. He went to local schools at Newport and Woy Woy, New South Wales where he won an award for Citizenship.

Technical Experience: He served a 5-year apprenticeship as a Fitter & Turner before going off to sea as a Marine Engineer. Robert then studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of New South Wales and followed a seagoing career, trading worldwide and rising to the rank of Chief Engineer and then Superintendent Engineer in the both the Blue Star Shipping Line and Austasia Line London and Singapore. He then became Fleet Engineer for the Angliss Fishing Fleet of 27 Prawn Trawlers as well as a Mother Ship and 3 Processing Works in Northern Australia.

Robert’s career continued on as Ship Manager of a group of vessels in the Australian National Line before owning and operating Vagabond Cruises, a Charter Boat operation on Sydney Harbour. All of his life, his activities have kept him close to the sea and he appreciates the power of the natural forces of nature which are available to be harnessed for the good of mankind.

At age 18, Robert was called up for National Service and was drafted as Engine Room sailor into the Navy. Beyond National Service, he rose to Lieutenant Commander in the Naval Reserve and over some time he undertook a number of engineering assignments on Australian naval ships and ship repair bases.

Robert is a Chartered Engineer and is also a Fellow of the prestigious, world-wide Institute of Marine Engineers, Science & Technology. He has published papers on the treatment of Marine Fuels and spoken at Conferences on improving the fuel efficiency and energy efficiency of marine vessels.

The Environment: He is passionate about the preservation of the Environment for the good of mankind. With his engineering training blending with his love of nature, he has now made it his mission to help bring clean, non-polluting solar electrical energy to the 2-billion people in the world who do not now have access to electricity.

Solar Systems: To help achieve this purpose, Robert has created an information website www.mrsolarenergy.com and to help bring solar electricity to the world, he has created www.mrsolarpanel.com and he is now working on www.solarpowerworldwide.com to help foster and bring on major renewable energy projects in all kinds of situations, industries, businesses and communities.

Energy Savings: In 2008, Robert attained a Certificate in Energy Management.

He is a practical, hands on person with an analytical mind who helps his clients find the best and most practical solutions to their problems and issues. He has a lifetime of experience in the design and operation of all sizes and types of power plants, systems and equipment including boilers, diesels, generators, pumps compressors, and many types of industrial and associated equipment.

Robert is familiar with a wide variety of heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigeration systems and he believes in using passive heating and cooling methods where possible to reduce energy consumption. He understands electrical systems and the needs of large and small commercial buildings, offices, hotels, apartment blocks, institutions and the like to efficiently manage all energy consumption. He is familiar with renewable energy solutions including the latest photovoltaic systems and solar thermal systems.

Acquisition of Energy Conservation: Robert recently broadened his horizons and acquired Erwin Tischler’s long standing engineering consultancy named Energy Conservation, who for the last 8-years have pioneered energy saving techniques such as Energy Audits and other energy saving resources for businesses throughout Australia. The main services are ONSITE and ONLINE Energy Audits that show businesses how to substantially reduce their energy bills for electricity and gas.

This consultancy service now ideally compliments Robert’s mission for bringing environmentally friendly, energy saving resources to Australian businesses. This is particularly so for the economical, newly developed, ONLINE energy audit which equally suits metropolitan and remotely-located businesses who otherwise would have no opportunity of availing themselves of such cutting-edge technology. See: www.energyconservation.com.au [ONLINE Energy Audits]. The new online service is now Australia’s first ever commercial, online Energy Auditing system, and it suits any size business, LARGE or small.

Erwin Tischler is the previous owner of Energy Conservation.

He was born in Austria and migrated to Australia as a very young boy with his mother and father and three brothers. Erwin completed all of his schooling in Sydney, NSW. He married an Australian girl and is proud of his four children + eight grandchildren. Erwin is now retired but remains as our independent consultant and mentor relating to energy efficiency matters.

He is a Cert. Electrical Engineer (Grad. Granville TAFE College, NSW 1972) and an Electrician (Lic EA 39404 - Granville TAFE College, NSW 1963). He has over 30 years of experience in engineering business services such as electrical switchgear design, electrical estimating, lighting design and electrical building services design and building maintenance management for all types of commercial and government buildings.

Erwin has also specialized in energy conservation matters since 1995 and was a Senior Energy Consultant with the Energy Management Unit of the NSW Department of Public Works for many years. This is where he gained energy savings experience on large State Government facilities such as Hospitals, Gaols, TAFE Colleges, Office Buildings, Police Stations, Agriculture Department, high schools and primary schools etc. For a long period he was also the NSW Client Energy Manager for the Department of Education and Training (i.e. all of NSW’s 100 Colleges of TAFE & all 3,000 Schools).

Erwin also gained experience in training many Energy Managers and with the writing of energy saving articles for books and technical magazines etc.

Erwin took that considerable experience with him to start his own Energy Efficiency Consultancy (Energy Conservation) in 2000 where he has since gained experience on many Government, commercial and industrial facilities.

Experience with Energy Conservation Projects

Erwin prides himself on the huge number of residential, commercial, industrial, government and educational facilities to whom he has shown how to permanently reduce their energy bills. Much of his energy auditing work over the last few years has been through referral by Integral Energy and EnergyAustralia, who are the two major Electricity Providers for the Sydney metropolitan area, for whom he supplied energy audits directly to their many electricity customers.

His energy saving products and services over the last 10-years now have the capacity for continually saving his past clients millions of dollars in energy costs annually. The energy savings also mean that tens of millions of kilograms of green house gases have now been cleared from our environment to help slow down the onset of the greenhouse effect.

Some results from recent energy audit results are:

Customer testimonials:

The following testimonials are comments from our more recent Energy Audit clients:

Project Management of energy saving installations:

The examples included below involved total contractor Project Management from “A to Z” and involved the following duties, including the tender process , executed by Erwin are:

• the assessment of energy saving potentials;
• negotiations with senior client management to proceed with implementation;
• system design, system specifications, tender writing;
• estimating project cost;
• the tender procedure & subsequent tender evaluations;
• the analysis of tenderers & tender quote and recommendation to client management;
• the letting of tenders to successful tenderers & payments to contractors;
• the commissioning inspection of energy saving measures;
• the assessment reporting of actual energy savings achieved on some projects.

a) Project management for NSW Police Services:

Two contracts totalling $500,000 for the installation of a total retrofit (refit) of existing fluorescent lighting with high energy efficiency lighting components for the NSW Police Service's Office Block Headquarters in College St, Sydney and also for the huge Sydney Police Centre.

These two projects were executed whilst Erwin was working on secondment to the NSW Police Service, with the client’s specific instructions to finish the work in under 6-months. Both were successfully designed, tendered, installed and commissioned by Erwin within the specified time frame. These two projects were subsequently a contribution towards the NSW Police Service being granted a NSW SEDA Excellence Award for “Outstanding Commitment to the Energy Smart Government Program” in 1998.

b) Project management for NSW Department of Corrective Services:

Three contracts totalling $150,000 for the implementation of energy cost saving measures in the following gaols:

Goulburn Gaol
Grafton Gaol
Lithgow Gaol
Parklea Gaol.

c) Project management for NSW Department of Education and Training:

The following contracts were completed under the ongoing DET project, named
E³ (Energy Efficiency in Education). These were completed whilst Erwin was in the position of Department of Public Works’ Client Manager for Department of Education and Training:

• A $150,000 TAFE contract for the installation of energy saving products controlling lighting and HVAC in the TAFE campuses of:
  
  Bankstown TAFE,
  Orange TAFE,
  Newcastle TAFE
  Wollongong West TAFE.
  
  
• A $400,000 contract for the installation of energy saving equipment controlling lighting and HVAC in the highest energy consuming high schools from each of the ten NSW Educational Regions. These high schools were:
  
  Narrabeen High School
  Marrickville High School
  Ingleburn High School
  Jamison High School (near Penrith)
  Blayney High School
  Keira High School (near Wollongong)
  Lambton High School (near Newcastle)
  McIntyre High School (near Inverell)
  Toormina High School (near Coffs Harbour)
  Coomealla High School (near Mildura)

  The actual monetary savings on energy bills for the above schools was an average of 27% per annum.

Energy Efficiency Statements (also called Energy Performance Report)

NSW Department of Education and Training’s refurbished office building in the Sydney CBD.

Energy Efficiency Publications:

i) Erwin was the author of text book sections titled:

• Lighting - Energy Savings for Educational Buildings
• Electricity Tariffs (and Related Subjects),

……. which were published jointly by Department of Public Works & Office of Energy, in the 400-page Building Energy Manual in 1993.

ii) Erwin was the author of the following published magazine articles:

• Energy conservation in schools -
  International CADDET magazine - Sept. 1991
• Energy conservation in the Government -
  Electrical Engineer Magazine May, 1991
• Power Point Control Saves $$$ -
  Electrical World magazine, 1995
• State schools save 20% of electricity bill -
  Electrical World Magazine Oct, 1989
• Timely remedies from the NSW Public Works Dept -
  Aust. Energy Management News Magazine - May, 1991
• Low Cost device reduces electricity bills -
  Energy Focus magazine - Volume 2, 1991
• Look After the Pennies -
  Energy Focus magazine, Feb. 1994
• Are Cleaners Waste Heaps? -
  Energy Focus magazine, 1996.
• Watch your Recurring [energy] Costs
  Small Business Magazine, Dec 2004
• A Bright Energy Savings Idea No.1
  Small Business Magazine, Dec 2004
• Help! What’s Happening [with my power factor]
  Small Business Magazine, Mar 2005
• A Bright Energy Savings Idea No.2
  Small Business Magazine, Mar 2005
• Danger! Do NOT use [your faulty appliances]
  Small Business Magazine, Jul 2005.
• A Bright Energy Savings Idea No.3
  Small Business Magazine, Jul 2005
• 33% Return on your Money [with energy savings measures]
  Small Business Magazine, Oct 2005.
• A Bright Energy Savings Idea No.4
  Small Business Magazine, Oct 2005
• Free electricity energy savings advice
  Small Business Magazine, Dec 2005.
• A Bright Energy Savings Idea No.5
  Small Business Magazine, Oct 2005
• Energy Savings for Motels
  Motel Owners’ Journal, May 2007
• BEWARE – The green guest army is here
  Motel Owners’ Journal, Dec 2007

Angelo Franco is our independent consultant relating to energy efficiency matters. He was born in Sydney, NSW and grew up in Earlwood. Angelo is married with two children. He completed all of his schooling & university engineering studies & Masters degree in Sydney.

He has extensive experience in the design of mechanical services for buildings, supervision of mechanical installations, asset management and energy conservation.

QUALIFICATIONS

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING (MECHANICAL)

University of New South Wales, 1973

MASTERS DEGREE IN ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT

University of Technology, Sydney, 1996

EXPERIENCE

• Currently operating under the business name of Angelo A Franco as a consultant in the building services industry.
• Manager of the Asset Management group of NSW Public Works & Services from October 1995 to October 2000, responsible for:-
• Developing Total Asset Management (TAM) Guidelines for the NSW Government
• Managing a number of TAM projects
• Consulting with Government Agencies and community groups to ensure acceptance of the guidelines, processes and outputs produced by the TAM group.
• Manager and Creator of the Energy Management Group of NSW Public Works’ State Projects Division from during 1992 and 1993, being involved in :-
• Providing expertise in a specialist area to ensure technical competence in the services provided to agencies by the group
• Providing consulting services, on a commercial basis, to the public and private sector
• Providing energy management services to the private sector, to companies such as Big W and Woolworths. The full range of energy management consultancies including:-
• Asset surveys,
• Energy audits and
• Condition surveys
• Head of production of the office of Energy’s " Building Energy Manual" as a reference document for all designers and operators of Building Services to achieve the NSW Government aim of more energy efficient buildings
• Over twenty-five years experience in the design, documentation and supervision of construction for Mechanical Engineering Services for building projects. In particular Angelo's skills have developed in the areas of Health infrastructure and Energy Management. Some of the projects in which he has played a key role include:
• Hospital Services Design
• Co-ordination of Engineering Design input to The New Children’s' Hospital at Westmead valued at $54 million (Total project budget $300 million).
• Office Type Service Design
• Dubbo Police Station and Courthouse
• Manly Police Station and Courthouse
• Long Bay Gaol, New Administration Block
• Education Facilities Service Design
• Peel Valley High School
• Wee Waa Central School
• Miller Technical College
• Energy Management Projects undertaken include:-
• Assessment of Energy Usage at Big W and Woolworths stores across Australia
• Implementation of Energy Management Plans at these stores
• Assessment of Energy Usage at a number of Australian Defence Establishments in NSW and Victoria.
• Implementation of Energy Management Plans at these Defence Establishments.
• Energy Management Plans for a number of NSW schools, TAFE’s, Offices and Hospitals.

STUDY TOURS

• Tour of overseas hospitals and laundry facilities in October, 1990 to identify international trends in services design and energy conservation measures being used:
• The San Diego Children’s' Hospital USA
• St. Mary's Hospital UK
• The Ottawa General Hospital CANADA
• Amko Pty Ltd NETHERLANDS
• Milnor Europa BELGIUM
• Tour of UK hospital facilities and asset management in December, 1994 to identify international trends in asset management services and measures being used to adapt to the new financial requirements of asset management. The main facility visited was the East Surrey Hospital Trust.

AWARDS

• 1991 Commendation from the Chief Engineer NSW Public Works for "Initiative in Investigating the Concept of Co-generation as an Energy System for a Shared Infrastructure Project on the Westmead Hospital".
• 1993 Special Commendation from the Director General of NSW Public Works for production of "The Building Energy Manual" in February 1993.

PUBLICATIONS

• "The Building Energy Manual" published in February 1993.
• Energy Use in Buildings Paper at 1993 AIRAH Conference in Sydney.
• Asset Maintenance Management in the NSW Public Sector, International Maintenance Conference, 1995
• Public Sector Asset Management, International Conference of Maintenance Societies, Melbourne 1996

COMMITTEES

• Technical Advisory Committee for Operating Suites (TACOT) of the New South Wales Health Department, Member
• Standards Australia Committee for PIPED Medical GASES AS 2896
• NSW Public Works Representative on The Standards Association Committee for AS 1668, Parts 1 and 2, (Part 1 relating to fire safety requirements for air handling systems, Part 2 to Ventilation requirements for air handling systems); and the draft standard for Ductwork