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News Release from: CIRIA | Subject: Designing Water KPIs and benchmarks
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 09 August 2006
Saving water in offices and hotels
CIRIA's new guidance: Designing Water KPIs and benchmarks for offices and hotels.
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
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 1 Apr 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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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.
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