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The read more ABOUT our Online Energy Audits refer to www.energyconservation.com.au This Questionnaire was designed by professional energy experts and is meant to take the place of an ONSITE visit by an Energy Auditor. This brief online process therefore makes the whole auditing system very fast and very economical. Our analysis of the many important segments of energy-related information that you provide for us herein will enable us to analyse your energy consuming processes, and from this we will formulate your ONLINE Energy Audit Report, which will be a Level 1+ audit to AS 3598. This will be custom-written with various energy stats, energy saving measures, tips and ideas + maintenance saving stats + environmental stats, all custom-written specially to suit the energy-consuming services at your business site. If you have ongoing energy efficiency problems at your business facility, our Report will advise you how to reduce your energy bills by 10% - 50% (with the % depending on the existing severity of your energy problems).
	The Report will be presented to you in an easy-to-read format, with plain English language, and will contain numerous colour-illustrated, energy stats and energy saving ideas to give you economical, step-by-step, energy-saving instructions that are non-technical and easy and straight forward to follow. Instructions will enable you to DIY the many energy saving measures, and the more complex recommendations will have enough data to enable your contractors to quote you for the work.
Please proceed as follows: Step 1: Make a one clear copy of both sides of each electricity / piped-gas / LPG bill for the last 24-months (or as far back as you can go) and send them to us. Please note that energy bills do not fax very clearly, therefore please post (or email) all bills to us. (If you have bills from multiple metering points, you need only include substantial bills, e.g. those greater than say $100/annum total). Step 2: Complete this questionnaire and fax, email or post it to us: To: Robert McMahon, Level 20, 68 Pitt St., SYDNEY, NSW, 2000 Fax: 02 9660 3142 Email: savings@energyconservation.com.au (Ph: 02 9660 8142) >>>> Copyright © Energy Conservation, Australia 2009 <<<< This document contains intellectual property and is licensed to be used and reproduced only by the purchaser of this service and its information may be used only for the business site covered by the specific Energy Audit Report relating to this document.

Target areas: The questions herein will ask about “target areas”, these are your total business work areas that use the energy which is covered by your electricity/gas bills.

Confidentiality: We guarantee that the information that you give us will remain confidential and will NOT be used for any other purposes, if you ask us not to.

Energy Efficiency Advice for Home & Business.

1) Client's COMMUNICATIONS details:

Business name (purchaser of this service):

Names of business site (covered by this Energy Report):

Contact person for energy matters (full name):

Main switch phone for contact person: ( ) Mobile phone:

Fax for contact person: ( ) Email:

Postal address for contact person
(street number & street name, or PO Box):

Suburb / Town / City name:

State :

Post code:

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How did you hear about us?

Through: Web Site / Word-of-Mouth / Other (how?): …………………………………

2) Your energy-related PROPERTY details:

Name of your target area for energy savings: (e.g. Head Office etc):

How long has target area been occupied by you?: months / years

Brief description of your target area (e.g. offices, food shop, factory, retirement village etc):

Does target area butt right up against your neighbours’ building/s? Yes / No.

Approximately how old is your target area?: years

Staff hours of business in target area:

Monday – Friday:

Saturday:

Sunday:

Cleaners’ hours: Work is during the above working times / or

Comments on work hours:

Does any of your target area use energy during nights and weekends (i.e. off-peak hours) that is similar in intensity to normal business hours?Yes / No.

Comment & give details of areas: ……

What is the total floor area of target area
(i.e. give the approx. under-roof cover): square m

(area stated above should only be for space/s for which you (not tenants etc) pay for the energy bills)

Renting:
Is target area (or parts of the area) rented?:Yes/ No / Not Applic.

Rental comments:

If you’re renting, are you willing to spend money on energy saving equipment which will become part of the fixed structure of the building that you’re in? (i.e. provided the equipment pays for itself in energy savings well before the lease runs out):Yes / No / Possibly

If renting, what is your remaining lease time?months/years

If renting, do you pay for
air conditioning electricity in your actual lease?Yes/No/Not Applic.

If renting, do you pay for
all/part of air condit. electricity in your energy bills?Yes/No/Not Applic.

Air condit. comments:

Note: If, when answering any questions in the pages to follow, you feel that some do not apply to you, then cross the question out entirely (but still submit that page to us)

Your energy saving ideas:
Do you (or anyone else) have any personal
ideas for energy savings at your target area: Yes / No.

If Yes, please give brief details: ……

Building photos:

Email/post us a photo of the north, east, west and south sides of the outside of the target area/s (please label these if possible). Make photos of the majority types of light fittings and/or other major energy-consuming equipment within your target area. These photos will help us to understand your target area/s and associated energy-consuming services better.

On all following pages: Please put a tick into relevant boxes (i.e. insert one tick for every line).

If you have no information for any of the larger “Comments” boxes, leave them empty BUT please put a diagonal line through them thus “/ ”. Otherwise we may assume that you have forgotten to fill something in.

3) Client’s GENERAL energy details:

In order for us to understand your energy situations more accurately, tell us about any specific energy problems that you may have:

ITEM	Yes	No	Don’t know	Not applic.
Have you implemented any energy saving measures at all within the last few years:
Comments: If you’ve done something, please detail what you have done and year implemented:
Do you use electricity as a fuel?	ü
Do you think that your electricity bills are too high?
Do you use piped (natural) gas as a fuel?
What do you use the natural gas for?:
Do you think that your natural gas bills are too high?
Do you use LPG (bottled) gas as a fuel?
What do you use the LPG for?:
Do you think that your LPG gas bills are too high?
Do you think that some persons and/or equipment or control systems may be wasting energy?
If so, please give comments on energy waste:
How many vehicles do you have associated directly with your business? Total number:
Do vehicles use (mark relevant fuels): Petrol / Diesel / Fully-Electric / Hybrid (Elect / Petrol)
Any energy-related vehicle comments:

4) Your specific ENERGY details:

ITEM	Yes	No	Don’t know
Do you regularly produce your own elect. (e.g. solar or a generator etc)?
Details on electricity production:
Do you have special, contract energy charge rates for electricity?
Do you have special, contract energy charge rates for piped gas?
Do you have special, contract energy charge rates for LPG?
Energy contract comments:
Is your electricity supply often unreliable (do you get blackouts etc)
Black-out comments:
Do your main fuses or circuit breakers often blow / trip-out?
Trip-out comments:
Do you have Power Factor Correction equipment (PFC)
Approx. how old is your PFC	Years
Comments on PFC:
Do you have any other sources of ENERGY? Please name them and name their purpose:

5) Multiple Energy Billing Please note: The fee for this Energy Audit is relatively low because it is based on the assumption you are a relatively simple business structure that has the one set of energy bills from the one set of meters only, i.e. we assume you have only one electricity account and one gas account. It is also assumed that all bills will be readily available to us, and will all be from the same Supply Authority (i.e. your Energy Suppliers have not changed during the last 24-months).
	Extra work involving the assessment of multiple sets of bills from multiple supply authorities (and chasing up missing bills etc) is time-consuming and may incur a slightly elevated fee. Therefore please be precise with all billing details as this will help minimise any additional costs that are likely to be incurred. We thank you for your valuable assistance.
Therefore: If you have multiple electricity and/or gas accounts and/or your Supply Authorities have changed within the last 24-months, please explain these below to assist the Energy Auditor in identifying your entire billing systems:
1 This section is applicable 1 Not applicable Area Name 1 Supply Authority name Elec. bill Acc. No. ……………… …………………………. …………………………. Area Name 1 Supply Authority name Gas bill Acc. No. ……………… …………………………. …………………………. Area Name 2 Supply Authority name Elec. bill Acc. No. ……………… …………………………. …………………………. Area Name 2 Supply Authority name Gas bill Acc. No. ……………… …………………………. …………………………. Area Name 3 Supply Authority name Elec. bill Acc. No. ……………… …………………………. …………………………. Area Name 3 Supply Authority name Gas bill Acc. No. ……………… …………………………. ………………………….

6) THERMAL INSULATION, this part is applicable only for target areas that contain:

   > Ducted room Heating, and/or
   > Ducted room Air Conditioning, and/or
   > Substantial, commercial-size: Refrigerated areas and/or freezing areas.

ITEM	Yes	No	Don’t know
Do you have thermal insulation (e.g. insulation bats) in roofs
Thermal insulation (e.g. insulation bats or foam) within walls
Thermal insulation (e.g. insulation panels) on walls
Insulation comments:
Do you have special outside louvers, awnings or shades etc to thermally protect windows from the hot effects of the sun. Shades comments:
Do you have any heat-reflective window foil on windows
Do you have roll-down, reflective window blinds
Do you have any tinted windows
Do you have any double-glazed windows
Do you have any triple-glazed windows
Window comments:
Do you have roofs that have no ceiling under (e.g. high, factory style, raked roofs). Comments:
Do you have hot air extractors for enclosed roof spaces (e.g. Whirlybirds etc) Comments:
Got any motorized, hot air extractors for enclosed roof spaces Comments:
Got any hot air extractors in room or corridor ceilings? Comments:

7) REFRIGERATION:

ITEM	Yes	No	Don’t know
Do you have drink fridges (e.g. Coin-operated Coke fridges etc) (show the quantity here: )
Drink fridge comments:
Do you have refrigerated cool rooms (show the quantity: )
Do cool rooms have lights inside?
Do you have non-refrig’d cool rooms, e.g. cellars (quantity: )
Cool room/cellar comments:
Domestic-size refrigerators (show approx. quantity: )
Domestic-size freezers (show approx. quantity: )
Domestic fridge comments:
Commercial-size refrigerators (show approx. quantity: )
Commercial-size freezers (show approx. quantity: )
Commercial fridge comments:
Do you have areas where a whole room is refrigerated? (show approx. quantity: )
Do you have areas where a whole room is a freezer? (show approx. quantity: )
Whole room comments:
Other types of refrigeration? Describe them:

8) HEATING, VENTILATION & AIR CONDITIONING (HVAC)

ITEM (note that the air conditioning (AC) questions under refer only to AC systems that service the target area/s)	Yes	No	Don’t know
Is the summer outside, midday temp. often above 30⁰C
Is the winter outside, morning temp. often below 10⁰C
Do you have ducted air conditioning?
As a percentage of your whole target area, approx. what areas are covered by the ducted air conditioning? - approx: ………… %
Is the ducted AC a fully reverse – cycle system? (ask your regular AC maintenance contractor if you’re not sure)
Quantity: Rating: kW cooling / kW heating Comments:
Does the ducted air conditioning have in-duct, elect. heaters? (ask your regular AC maintenance contractor)
Quantity: Rating: kW cooling / kW heating Comments:
Does the ducted air condit. have heating via a boiler/furnace? (ask your regular AC maintenance contractor)
Quantity: Elect. power input rating: kW cooling Comments:
Do you have auto controls for any ducted air condit. system/s?
If NO, please describe what switches the AC ON & OFF (e.g. manual control etc):
Do you have an auto Energy Management System (EMS)?
Do you have any Boiler/s?
Purpose of boiler/s:
How are boiler/s fuelled: coal / natural gas / LPG / electricity / other ………
Do you have any Furnace/s?
Purpose of furnaces/s:
How are furnaces/s fuelled: coal / natural gas / LPG / electricity / other ………
Got split-unit air conditioner/s? (approx total: )
Air conditioner/s that plug-into power points (approx total: )
Ceiling (chopper) fan/s for summer cooling (approx total: )
Large blower heater/s that heat large areas (approx total: )
Approx. ceiling height in blower-heated area: m Does blower-heated area have open door/s or window/s etc during operation? Yes / No Further comments:
Got ducted heating that serves multiple rooms? (note this question refers only to heating system/s – not AC) How fueled: Elect / Natural Gas / LPG / Other ………………….
Electric heaters (non-plug-in) that serve single rooms (approx total: )
Electric heaters that plug-into power points (approx total: )
Gas heaters that serve single rooms (approx total: )
Heated pool/s (approx total: )
Is heated pool indoors?
Heated spa/s (approx total: )
Is heated spa indoors?
Do you have a electrical-powered car park air-ventilation system
Do you have AC (operating 24/7) dedicated for computer room/s?
Do you have air conditioning, operating 24/7, that is dedicated for communications room/s?

9) ALL LIGHTING

ITEM	Yes	No	Don’t know
(note: the symbol “>” below means “more than”)
Total > 10 x Fluorescent lights (mounted on the surface of ceilings)
Total > 100 x Fluorescent lights (mounted flush into the ceilings)
Total > 10 x High Bay lights (eg bell-shaped, hanging off high roofs)
Total > 10 x External access/security lights (ON all night)
Total > 10 x Internal fluoro. lights ON all night for security
Got any incandescent lights? (the old-style, twist-in bulbs)
Got small, round low voltage (halogen) lights
Got internal, rectangular, high power halogen lights
Other types of lights, describe & give approx. quantities:
Do you think that there is too much artificial illumination in some rooms that have multiple lamp, fluorescent lights?
Are access/security lights controlled only by a manual switch?
or are access/security lights controlled by a time clock?
or are access/security lights controlled by a photo-sensitive switch which automatically senses day and night?
Do you have some light switches that control multiple rooms
Do you have areas/rooms where fluorescent lights need to be ON for 12-hours per day or more (e.g. stair wells etc)
Do you have small office room/s where occupancy is often intermittent (often vacated for long periods at a time), and these rooms are often left vacated with lights left ON?
Do you have small utility rooms where occupancy is mostly very short (less than 10-mins at a time) and these rooms are often vacated with lights left ON (e.g. small stores, tea rooms and toilets etc)?
Do you have medium size rooms where occupancy is mostly short (less than 2-hours at a time) and these are often vacated with lights left ON (e.g. educational rooms, largish store rooms, lunch rooms and plant rooms etc)?

10) COMMERCIAL SIZE: COOKING , CLOTHES WASHING & CLOTHES DRYING:

ITEM	Yes	No	Don’t know
Do you have commercial cooking facilities:
(note if the rest of this page is all not applicable, cross it all out, but still submit it to us) Describe cooking facility/s & appliances (provide also approx. quantities of appliances and types of fuel used):
Do you have commercial clothes washing facilities:
Describe washing facility/s & appliances (provide also approx. quantities of appliances and types of fuel used):
Do you have commercial clothes drying facilities:
Describe drying facility/s & appliances (provide also approx. quantities of appliances and types of fuel used):

11) COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES ETC:

(note if this page is all not applicable, cross it all out, but still submit it to us)

ITEM	Yes	No	Don’t know
Do you have extensive processes involving a complexity of commercial/industrial machinery etc. If so, give a brief explanation, types of machinery (and how fuelled) in this box :
Do you have electrical motor/s in the range of 5-kW to 350 kW (approx quantity )
Are any of these motor/s more than 10-years old
Motor comments:
Do you have any air compressor/s (approx quantity )
Do you have activities that require large amounts of steam and/or processing heat. Please describe:
Do you have activities that give off large amounts of waste heat, e.g. from commercial clothes dryers, smelting furnaces, or process heating etc. Please describe:

12) ENVIRONMENTAL:

(note if any part of this page is all not applicable, cross it out, but still submit it to us)

ITEM	Yes	No	Don’t know
Area surrounding target area:
Do you have outside ground areas up against air conditioned building/s that could be converted to green gardens/lawns (to reduce summer HEAT radiation onto outside walls and windows)
Do you have staff who complain that the effects of your air conditioning often makes them sick
Comments on any of the above:

Conversion of waste products Due to ever-increasing anti-pollution laws, some natural waste products such as combustibles and organics materials can be expensive to dispose of according to Regulations. These wastes include wood & nut shell etc, or organic materials such as: Garbage, or Cow & Pig manure etc, or Animal flesh and Offal etc from abattoirs etc. If you have regular, large quantities of any of these (or similar), then consider keeping them instead to produce your own free electricity, heat and sellable by-products.

Combustibles can be burnt to drive your own steam-driven generator to produce free electricity and the hot exhaust can be used for heating for processes and/or to assist in your air conditioning etc. Manure and animal flesh etc can be used to produce bio-gas (methane) via anaerobic digestion, which is a clean, controlled-rotting process. The resultant gas given off can be burnt to turn a gas-fired turbine-generator to produce electricity and heating for processes etc. In many cases, the resultant by-products such as those left-over from bio-gas production can be sold as by-products such as fertilizer etc. Additionally, the very hot exhaust gases from the turbine can be used to save energy with your room heating or process heating systems. We will give you more details on these in your Energy Audit report.

ITEM	Yes	No	Don’t know
Do you have LARGE quantities of:
a) Combustible materials such as sugar cane stalk, plant cuttings, wood, sawdust and nut shell or other similar combustibles?
b) Organic materials such as manure from cattle, poultry, pig, or other similar?
c) Organic materials such as waste from brewery compounds and other similar?
d) Organic materials such as waste from animal slaughter and other similar?
Overall description & comments on what you do with these products now:

13) FINAL CHECK LIST

The following list will ensure that you’ve completed all that’s necessary:

1 Complete all of the relevant questions on the previous pages and send to us.

1 See Step 1 on Page 1:
Make copies of all electricity/gas bills for the last 24-months (or as far back as you can
go) and send to us.

1 Page 4 (last paragraph): Take relevant photos and send copies to us.

Contact Details

For any questions about our ONLINE Energy Audit Questionnaire, please contact:

Robert F. McMahon
(Business Owner - Energy Conservation)
(B. Eng. (UNSW), C. Eng., Fellow Inst. Marine. EST. Cert. Energy Management)

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

Email: savings@energyconservation.com.au

Australia phone: 02 9660 8142

- or mobile: 0417 450 770

Australia fax: 02 9660 3142

International phone: +61 2 9660 8142

International fax: +61 2 9660 3142

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