UK SME looking for European commercial partners, (sub consulting or licencing) to offer their solutions which reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions in businesses and increase office based employees productivity by increasing well-being.

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The UK consultancy specialises in lowering energy and carbon usage in buildings to increase financial and environmental performance. The company is also working on the impact of the quality of building interior on staff productivity to develop a consultancy and software as a service solution. The company wishes to partner with organisations in facility management or employee productivity which could either act as sub consultants or license the solutions.

Offer description

The UK company specialises in optimising building performance by lowering energy consumption and carbon emissions and consequently improving the whole life performance for new and existing buildings, reducing project capital cost and building operational cost. This delivers an improved return on built asset investment for clients. The company can work with facility management and IT management to reduce energy consumption. This could involve datacentre relocation, marketing campaign to change behaviours, employee engagement strategy, supply chain and governance review and improvements, increase energy use accountability by business unit etc. The company’s clients include: restaurant chains, universities, airports, hotels and warehousing business. The company is also developing a solution to improve staff productivity. The company is currently leading a project with the UK’s innovation agency sponsored by the UK government's department for business, researching the effect of building interior quality on workplace productivity. This project will result in the design of a consultancy and software as a service solution to improve worker productivity, well-being and reduce absenteeism in office buildings. The research investigation will be taking place over the next six months, followed by a deployment stage which will collect performance data from workplace settings. Later this year, consultancy services will be made available to the wider market place, and this will be followed by integrated software and control solutions that are currently projected to launch in 2017. The company wishes to find other consultancy organisations in Europe and beyond with experience in the field of building improvements and facility management to develop business partnerships. The partner would be expected to either act as a sub consultant for the UK company on projects outside the UK or to license the solutions.

Innovations and advantages

This company is developing a complete offering to optimise building performance in term of building maintenance,sustainability, cost effectiveness and employee efficiency and productivity. This delivers an improved return on built asset investment for clients.

Current stage of development

The solution on reducing building energy consumption and carbon is already on the market. The solution on employee productivity is to be launched in 2017.

Technology keywords

04007001 Energy management
04007002 Lighting, illumination
04007006 Low, zero and plus energy rating

Market application codes

09002002 Real estate
09002006 Other finance, insurance and real estate

Profile date

16.03.2019