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Engaging Tenants In Energy Conservation

Tenant engagement is one key to ensuring your building’s performance meets energy conservation expectations as designed and can take advantage of any additional energy saving that result from submetering and other tactics. What are the ... Read more

Benchmarking; A Strategy To Reduce GHG From Existing Buildings

A recently released National Energy Benchmarking Framework Report  by CaGBC states that “Residential, commercial and institutional buildings consume over 30 per cent of total energy in Canada. In Canada’s major cities, buildings are the primary ... Read more

BOMA Toronto Earth Hour Challenge Sees 70% Increase In Participation

BOMA Toronto Earth Hour Challenge serves to highlight what is possible year round as well as stress the importance of tools like metering and submetering to measure and monitor performance. BOMA Toronto and partner, WWF-Canada – ... Read more

A Utility Management Strategy Is Critical For Cost Savings

A recent article on HBR.org reported companies waste 30% of the energy they consume (source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency). A lack of proper utility management was seen as a result of siloed decision-making  leading to wasted utility ... Read more

How Energy Management Supports Green Building In Canada

The state of  green building in Canada is very positive as seen in the recent CaGBC / Delphi Group report  which highlighted the significant increase in LEED projects in the 5-year time period of 2009 ... Read more

In Toronto: Earth Hour Challenge For Commercial Buildings

Commercial and institutional buildings in Canada account for about 12% of Canada’s secondary energy use and 11% of national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Not only do energy savings mean less GHG emissions, they also mean ... Read more

Meter Readings Made Meaningful & Actionable Today

Web-based energy reporting software allows building managers, operators and tenants access to their meter data anytime, online. A building manager that has access to dozens of standard reports can more easily manage tenant billing, LEED ... Read more

Heating & Cooling Buildings Through Thermal Energy: 3 Key Considerations 

Buildings are being designed and sold with centralized heating and cooling facilities, delivering thermal energy from either from a DEU (District Energy Utility)  or CHP (Combined Heat and Power) plant.  This allows building managers to ... Read more

Three Reasons Why Thermal Energy & Submetering Makes Sense

The use of thermal energy to heat and cool buildings is gaining traction in Canada. Successfully employed in Europe for decades, best practices and proven technologies are now available in Canada. Thermal energy is clean ... Read more

On The Go: QMC Utility Submetering Projects Across The Country

QMC delivers turnkey submetering solutions from system design to meters  and data management technology tools. We work with  building owners, developers, and managers across Canada to plan, design and implement location-specific submetering solutions.Here are a few ... Read more

QMC and Enercare form agreement for Ontario multi-residential market

We are very pleased to announce our exclusive agreement with Enercare to offer QMC’s  GWF thermal submetering technology ( GWF MessSysteme AG of Switzerland) to the multi-residential market in Ontario.  QMC provides intelligent thermal, electricity, ... Read more

New office in Calgary for QMC

QMC Submetering Solutions  is pleased to announce the opening of our new Calgary office. Our central location in Place 926 will allow us to respond quickly to any customer requests within the downtown core and ... Read more

Thermal energy makes sense. Only meters measure it right.

Thermal energy submetering in commercial, multi-residential and institutional real estate is gaining traction in Canada. Early adopters will find reward as benefits to developers and consumers are considerable. They may also encounter risk if best ... Read more

QMC utility metering projects on the go, across the country

This year has been a terrific year for our team at QMC from launching our new brand to working on high profile utility metering projects  across the country. Here are just a few:  1. Eau Claire ... Read more

QMC: Vancouver & Toronto Events

QMC Metering Solutions will be participating in 2 key industry events this December. We hope to see you there!   TORONTO: PM Expo. It takes place December 2-4, 2015  in Toronto at the Metro Toronto ... Read more

The collective power of energy conservation results in 12.1% drop

CivicAction’s Race to Reduce is one of the largest regional energy conservation challenges in the world, with 196 buildings participating representing more than 69 million square feet or 42% of the commercial office space in ... Read more

Technologies to improve energy efficiency

A recent McKinsey & Company report, Greening the Future: New Technologies that could transform how industry uses energy’ describes 33 innovations that could help industry significantly improve its use of energy. At the top of the ... Read more

DATA FOR SMART ENERGY COMMUNITIES: WHAT SHOULD WE DO WITH IT?

Cities & communities account for 60% of energy use and more than half of greenhouse gas emissions in Canada. By getting smart about energy in our communities, we can strengthen our cities & communities while ... Read more

Survey: Energy efficiency and the bottom line

How important are energy savings are to a company’s bottom line?  What are Canadian companies doing about it? A survey released by the Canadian Energy Efficiency Alliance presented a snapshot of Canadian businesses with the ... Read more

LEED Metering made simple (and intelligent)

Submetering is a key component of LEED certified buildings and the value to property owners and developers is reflected in the credits available from metering in each of the LEED Rating Systems. Electrical or mechanical engineers ... Read more

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