Skövde
Skövde kommun is a municipality in central southern Sweden. The municipality owns a property portfolio of half a million square meters of schools, preschools, nursing homes, and leisure properties. Overseeing the maintenance work is the municipality’s energy strategist Ludvig Isaksson.
With BIM Energy, they do feasibility studies and investigate their buildings to see how much energy they can save. With BIM Energy’s easy-to-use user interface, that task can be easily calculated without having to call in consultants, which suits Skövde kommun perfectly because they want to be able to carry out the work in-house.
That BIM Energy is user friendly and has a clear workflow is something that Ludvig appreciates
Ludvig says that they start by modelling the building in BIM Energy to get an estimated energy use. “Modelling takes minutes instead of hours,” says Ludvig. With BIM Energy’s 3D view, they can compare the virtual model with a photo of its real counterpart to see if everything is correct. The model’s consumption results are then compared with the actual consumption, after which they adjust the model so that it corresponds to reality.
Then they add measures in the software. The measures can range from changing ventilation flow to change windows and adding additional insulation. The energy balance then changes and the outcome becomes easy to analyse. This gives an overall picture as they can compare both before and after, for example, to see if a window replacement would make a significant change. Finally, profitability calculations are made to determine which measures they want to proceed with.