IBM TRIRIGA Version 10.5.0

Managing real estate environmental sustainability

You use IBM® TRIRIGA® Real Estate Environmental Sustainability Manager and IBM TRIRIGA Real Estate Environmental Sustainability Impact Manager to measure, manage, and reduce the environmental impact of the real estate portfolio.

Before you begin

TRIRIGA Real Estate Environmental Sustainability Manager is a prerequisite to TRIRIGA Real Estate Environmental Sustainability Impact Manager. TRIRIGA Real Estate Environmental Sustainability Manager provides functionality to operational or transactional users and is licensed by concurrent user. TRIRIGA Real Estate Environmental Sustainability Impact Manager provides enterprise-wide analytics, with reporting access available to the entire enterprise. 
TRIRIGA Real Estate Environmental Sustainability Impact Manager helps organizations achieve additional benefits of an environmental sustainability strategy in two primary ways:
  • By supporting the use of analytics to examine performance data of energy consuming systems in the facility and automatically creating corrective work orders to repair equipment that is not operating correctly. This capability requires a service engagement to load data into TRIRIGA from either a building management system or an energy sensor data collection system, such as Tridium Niagara or OSIsoft PI.
  • By providing additional capabilities in IBM TRIRIGA Capital Projects Manager, IBM TRIRIGA Workplace Operations Manager, IBM TRIRIGA Facilities Manager, and IBM TRIRIGA Real Estate Manager. TRIRIGA Capital Projects Manager ensures that improvement projects are implemented within the planned scope, schedule, and budget. Once projects have been implemented, the TRIRIGA Workplace Operations Manager is the operations and maintenance system to perform critical preventative maintenance and commissioning tasks. TRIRIGA Real Estate Environmental Sustainability Manager is also extended to report performance metrics, read-only transactional reports, and participation in the approval process for TRIRIGA Real Estate Environmental Sustainability Manager business processes to the enterprise.

In this documentation, features that require TRIRIGA Real Estate Environmental Sustainability Impact Manager will include the full product name.

  • Overview of environmental sustainability management
    To implement an environmental sustainability management strategy, you must first accurately measure and assess the overall environmental footprint of the portfolio. Next, you must manage the environmental impact by identifying and evaluating opportunities for improvement. Finally, you must implement changes to reduce costs and environmental impact.
  • Environmental data
    Environmental data includes information about the workplace assets of an organization, including energy or water consumption, waste production, travel, carbon, and other emissions. Environmental data can be used for calculating, reporting, and metric analysis of environmental impact.
  • Prerequisite setup for managing environmental sustainability
    Before using TRIRIGA Real Estate Environmental Sustainability, an administrator or the environmental manager must configure the applications settings and classifications that are used for environmental data and perform sustainability setup activities such as emission factors, weather stations, and environmental checklists.
  • Measuring environmental impact
    To implement an environmental sustainability strategy, you must measure the environmental impact of your organization. The first step is to collect environmental data about critical workplace assets, including energy consumption and emissions data.
  • Managing environmental impact
    Use TRIRIGA Real Estate Environmental Sustainability to identify and evaluate opportunities to reduce energy use and the overall carbon footprint of the real estate portfolio. By analyzing and comparing energy efficiency measures, you can optimize the financial and environmental return on investment of improvements.
  • Reducing environmental impact
    Implement programs and projects identified to meet environmental sustainability objectives and maintain the improvements.

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