FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Increasingly, there is a requirement to safeguard water supplies in the UK and implement sustainable water use. Practitioners working to advise the office and hotel sectors on reductions in water consumption had identified a lack of suitable benchmarking information that would allow a simple method of comparing the water consumption of a particular property with national trends.
CIRIA’s new guidance Designing Water KPIs and benchmarks for offices and hotels (C657) describes how suitable KPI’s and benchmarks have been developed for water use in offices and hotels across England and Wales that will enable managers to understand whether their property is performing well or poorly in comparison with other similar buildings in the UK. The guidance will help improve water efficiency and encourage the sustainable use of water in office and hotel environments by providing property managers and owners; facility managers; building engineers and designers with KPIs from which benchmarks for water efficiency can be set.
The research project behind this publication was funded by Bournmouth and West Hampshire Water, DTI Partners in Innovation, Scottish Water (formerly East of Scotland Water), Environment Agency, Essex and Suffolk Water, Ofwat, Southern Water, South West Water, Vivendi and Welsh Water.
To order a copy of Water KPIs and benchmarks for offices and hotels (C657) visit www.ciriabooks.com or contact CIRIA, Classic House, 174-180 Old Street, London EC1V 9BP; Tel: 020 7549 3300; Email: enquiries@ciria.org. Shorter summary guidance KPIs for water use in hotels (W010) and KPIs for water use in offices (W011) is also available to download free from www.ciria.org/downloads.htm.
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To request a copy of C657 for review, or for further press information, contact James Milne at the above postal address or email: press@ciria.org. Downloads are available for W010 and W011 from http://www.ciria.org/downloads.htm
Authors: R Waggett, Faber Maunsell; C Arotsky, Rickaby Thompson Associates
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