A total transformation

• Clean production measures in a medium-size brewery resulted in a significant increase in the quality level of new products
• Measures helped to reduce heat waste, wastewater and other waste, resulting in significant savings

CCP in Brno, the Czech Republic faced similar challenges to other breweries dating back to late 1960s characterised by low labour productivity and poor energy efficiency.

Benchmarking for better performance

• Metering identifies sources of high water consumption in a hotel
• Targeted actions to save water reduce water bill by € 3 150

Hotel Festa Sofia is a modern, stylish hotel located on the outskirts of Vitosha mountain. The four-star hotel employs 85 people and has 120 modern rooms, two restaurants and three bars. 

Making all the difference...

Traditionional hotel goes green

• Optimising a hotel laundry service led to multiple savings and benefits
• Measures aimed at achieving a green label for hotel services

The 210 room Hotel Hemus is one of the oldest in Sofia and has 210 rooms. The hotel has 85 employees and offers wheelchair access, a children's play area, breakfast buffet, room service, dry cleaning and laundry, restaurant, conference hall, a lobby bar, parking, and a business centre. 

A solid investment all round

How cool pool controls can save money...

Sun, sea and energy...

• Renerwable energy measures and better human resource management led to € 3 500 in savings each year
• Measures are all part of the hotel's integrated environmental policy

Duni Royal Resort is a high-class holiday village located on the southern Black Sea coast of Sozopol. The resort occupies a total area of 740 000 square metres around a beautiful bay and a nature reserve.

Looking at the longer-term impact

• Finnish municipality engaged in an ESCO project to improve the energy efficiency of buildings
• Oil heating was replaced with pellets and heat recovery was installed in schools
• Monitoring was performed for five years after the project and demonstrated the concrete savings achieved

Akaa in Finland set out to improve the energy efficiency of its municipal buildings by launching a special project based on the Energy Services Company (ESCO) model.

Construction waste is basically material loss that creates additional cost, and minimising waste generation directly improves the cost-efficiency of the project. Successful construction site waste management is a sum of many factors. This checklist covers many of these different factors:

Service model, an incentive to succeed

• A service agreement was made to improve the energy efficiency of a hospital from the 1960s
• Contractor carried out renovations and now monitors energy usage and savings (contract duration is 15 years)

In 2014, a hospital in Karlovac Croatia was renovated according to energy service company (ESCO) practices. The renovation was part of the larger Energy Renovation of Public Sector Buildings programme, adopted by the Croatian government.