What do you do if your Energy Management skills aren't enough to tackle sustainability challenges?

Collaborate with Experts: Collaborate with external consultants, sustainability experts, or specialized firms with expertise in addressing specific sustainability challenges. Leverage their knowledge, experience, and resources to complement your Energy Management skills and develop comprehensive sustainability solutions.

The first step to filling your knowledge gaps is recognizing what skills or knowledge you lack. It might take time, even months or years. Don't hesitate to team up with others who know more about a subject than you do. Collaboration and seeking support from experts can help you grow faster. Don't be afraid to ask for help—it's the smart way to learn and improve.

Expand my knowledge by seeking support from experts, reaching out to senior colleagues, mentors, consultants, or sustainability professionals who have a deeper understanding of the specific challenge. Embrace Continuous Learning: Sustainability is a constantly evolving field. Staying updated on the latest advancements in renewable energy technologies, energy efficiency measures, and policy changes that might impact your approach. Embrace Collaboration and Innovation: Teamwork Makes the Dream Work. know this, sustainability goals are often best achieved through collaboration. Experiment and Learn: Don't be afraid to experiment with new ideas and pilot projects.

Identifying a viable business case, cross referencing with say a clients needs, identifying the skillset available in the business and resolving, its got more moving parts than that but renewables are not difficult, wind is a generator on a stick, batteries need invertors as does solar, start with with business case and work through the obvious

Two similar houses in the same street might need very different support for sustainable living in terms of energy management. This need to be verified in relation with owner choice of admiration and operations, where decisions on a strategic level takes place for energy management. Hence, Sustainable Facilities Management (SFM) can be seen as a solution to takes a context-oriented approach, to understand the context and the location specific potentials and barriers. Also, it is important to know how the organization is related to decision makers on tactical and operational level for energy management. MAK

As delivering projects in some part of the lifecycle is what I do no one has the skillset to cover every area, collaboration is the way to go, teambuilding etc etc

In spite of high ambitions of reducing energy use in buildings, the current regulation need improvement. My advice to investigate based on following question to develop model for energy management: ? Who will oversee strategic decision making in housing? What are characteristics of strategic facilities management organization (SFMO)? ? How are different ownerships related to strategic facilities management organization (SFMO)? Specifically: social housing, owner occupied/private and private renting. ? What type of SFMO is demonstrating most experience in incorporating sustainability in housing administration? ? What are the strengths and weaknesses in different SFMO for implementing sustainable facilities management? MAK

Seek Mentorship and Guidance: Find mentors or advisors who have expertise in sustainability and can provide guidance and mentorship as you work to enhance your skills. Mentors can offer valuable insights, advice, and support to help you navigate challenges and accelerate your learning curve.

We are really only talking about the current proved technologies, wind, solar and BESS, the implementation of these technologies is where we are at and the tech is pretty low grade, I would say lessons learnt in BESS is the most interesting part as there are several Deployment solutions on the table.

I suggest, firstly do the background check for theoretical frame to get empirical result in energy management. Secondly our methodology shall be well defined, thirdly we shall discuss our findings and close with a conclusion on variations in SFMO flow chart according to different types of ownership and the implications for sustainable facilities management. Also, to keep everyone on same page, we should develop the ability to internally conceptualize the purpose of energy management, including the added value, and then being able to communicate this vision to all stakeholders. MAK

As with everything cash is king, the aforementioned commentary on collaboration is pivotal to a complete business case, there are many companies and technologies that die by the wayside as it needs a team commitment to get these kind of projects over the line, by team I mean sales, engineering, health and safety, investors or income stream, constructors, commissioning, subcontractor engagement, the list goes on but its a team effort

I personally don't go with celebrating, move on to the next project, I leave the back slapping and photos to the less inspired

In my perspective if you are curious enough to do something the lackness is it self remove when you try every option to get knowledge and insights about that field. So be aware of the need of the situation and get enough info accordingly, get connected with professionals having expertise and solutions, go for learning new skill and innovate enough that is the most important in every field and get yourself fully involved into it.

This is unfortunately a common issue. People who talk sustainability are never aware of simple energy basics although energy and environmental sections are the main pillars of ESG. For sure, this needs a proper capacity building to understand how all of these are translated into carbon emissions

Collaborate with Experts: Collaborate with colleagues or external experts who have specialized knowledge or experience in sustainability. By working together on sustainability projects or initiatives, you can leverage each other's strengths and expertise to develop innovative solutions and achieve meaningful impact. Engage with professionals in the sustainability field to learn from their experiences, exchange ideas, and gain insights into best practices. Joining professional associations, attending conferences, and participating in industry forums can provide valuable networking opportunities and access to a supportive community of practitioners.