by Brianna Crandall — February 23, 2015—Brookfield Property Partners has awarded a contract to utiliVisor for a customized utility submetering solution for seven commercial office towers in New York City and Houston, Texas.
The properties include 1 Liberty Plaza, 245 Park Avenue, 1114 Avenue of the Americas (The Grace Building), and 200 Liberty Street in New York as well as 2 Allen Center and 3 Allen Center in Houston, for a total of 9.5 million square feet of office space.
The utiliVisor energy metering system is a Web-based, networked solution, built on open standards, that works in real time to collect and format data, monitor operations and equipment errors, and deliver oversight via Web-based alerts and alarms.
The utiliVisor solution for the Brookfield buildings involves enterprise-wide submeter reading and utility cost allocation services, with 928 meters and 206 separate tenant accounts. Utility cost allocation data from the meters will be collected via the Web and formatted into user files for automatic loading into Brookfield’s existing accounting package.
Management teams for the buildings will receive Web access to the utiliVisor Account Profile data via a secure log-in and can obtain real-time energy use data from the field at any time via ipad and smartphone mobile applications.
Brookfield’s tenants will be provided with a custom computer dashboard detailing all utility charges, as well as comprehensive utility profiles/consumption reports. Tenants will be able to download their utility bills in PDF format directly from their Web-based utiliVisor account.
“The utiliVisor system will provide Brookfield with the latest submetering and utility accounting technologies,” said Tim Angerame, CEO at utiliVisor. “It offers a customizable, expandable, and dependable platform for the accurate analysis and allocation of all tenant utility costs.”
Founded in 1978, utiliVisor offers comprehensive, accurate energy monitoring and submetering services to boost efficiency and lower energy consumption. UtiliVisor services more than 250 million square feet of commercial and institutional space nationwide and oversees more than 175,000 service data points. It is also an approved Meter Data Service Provider (MDSP) for the State of New York.
