_WorkZone West achieves 6 Star NABERS Energy Rating

Elanor Investors Group in partnership with Knight Frank Facilities Management are thrilled to have achieved a 6 Star NABERS Energy Rating at WorkZone West, 202 Pier Street, Perth; the result of three years of consistent monitoring, fine tuning and implementing of energy saving initiatives.

September 09, 2021

WorkZone West, located at 202 Pier Street in Perth, was built in 2013 and was designed as a 5 Green Star building. The A grade building accommodates seven levels of office area and ground floor retail across 15,601 sqm NLA, with 141 bays in the basement parking.

Knight Frank were awarded management of the building in August 2018. The challenge was to reduce energy consumption and improve efficiency in the base building to reach a 6 Star NABERS Energy rating while meeting tenant comfort requirements.

This would be achieved by completing the following:

Removing the permanent lighting schedule and enabling passive infrared (PIR) sensors to the car park lighting system
Upgrading the car park, back of house, external pole lights, plant room, garden beds and lobby areas with LED equivalent
Replacing fluorescent Oyster lights with LED Oyster and enabling PIR sensors to fire stairs
Changing the control strategy for the secondary condenser loop servicing tenancy air conditioning from 24 hours to a set point of 29 degrees
Maximising usage of higher COP chiller by adjusting the chiller scheduling to suit ambient temperatures
Improving the control strategy for the lift shaft air conditioning, previously overridden from 24/7 operation
Upgrading the cooling tower filtration and backwash system so the pump only operates when required
Setting up the ambient lock out set points for chillers and boilers, thereby reducing operational hours
Implementing an optimum start strategy which reduced air conditioning operating hours

The WorkZone West Facilities Management team, Grant Reid, Senior Facilities Manager, Janitha Kaushal, Facilities Manager and Emma Gibb, Associate Director, in partnership with Elanor Investors Group, have spent the last three years focusing on consistent fine tuning, energy monitoring and implementing energy saving initiatives, resulting in the achievement of a NABERS 6 Star Energy Rating.

WorkZone West is now the only office building in Western Australia to have a 6-star energy rating without green power.

For more information, please contact:

Grant Reid
Senior Facilities Manager
Grant.Reid@au.knightfrank.com