How to Manage Sustainability Data

Now that you’ve defined and recorded your boundaries and have processes to guide you, the next area of focus is ensuring a coordinated approach to day-to-day data collection and management. Remember, your Master Utilities Tracker and Supplier Data Matrix will help you understand what data to expect, where gaps exist, and in what format it is provided. What these tools won’t do is define roles, responsibilities, or the chain of accountability for your data owners. Unless everyone is clear about what’s expected of them, data consistency, accuracy, and efficient management can suffer. It’s also essential to consider all relevant internal and external data owners beyond utilities providers. This could include property or facilities managers or other internal contributors in areas like HR. Energy brokers can also be a valuable source of quality information, offering additional insights when collecting data directly from a site is challenging. Operations teams, contractors, and other third parties should also be considered. When aiming for complete and accurate data, prioritize completeness first. Once you have all the necessary details, explore opportunities to automate data collection. Automation is beneficial but requires ongoing attention and quality controls to ensure data integrity. MAKE ACCOUNTABILITY EVERYONE’S BUSINESS STEP 02: PEOPLE

Whether you’re an asset owner or occupier, the responsibilities for data provision and reporting can be embedded within leasing documents. This is a good way to set parameters upfront and manage ongoing collection and analysis. Did you know?

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