Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Going on the response the Minister has made, now that we have responsibility for the utility bills it has been put in the budgets of the maintenance departments and maintenance staff that provide the maintenance on the buildings. They are monitoring the bills as they come in. They are operating the buildings. They can see where they have irregularities in the billing. If the bill goes up for one month for no specific reason, they can go and check the operation of the building. There’s a feedback mechanism built in now through our tracking system and through the payment system where we have much better access to information on how the building is performing. The energy bill is a good indicator, as we know, through our benchmarking of how well the building is performing. It’s not just the construction of the building that contributes the energy savings but it’s also how you maintain and operate the building. If the building controls aren’t working properly or if there’s a damper that’s not closing when it should or an occupancy sensor that’s not working, it can have a significant spike in the bills. Now that we’ve consolidated that, we do have the ability to monitor and we do monitor it. We do call in technical staff to look at specific issues with buildings when it’s raised by the maintenance staff.
Paul Guy on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 27th, 2013. See this statement in context.
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
February 26th, 2013
Paul Guy
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