Digital Construction Data is a digital database of the municipal properties. Here, basic information and
drawings of the buildings are kept.
The database can also be used to prepare operation and maintenance plans. This database is used in Egedal
Municipality to ensure a comprehensive overview of the buildings' maintenance-related condition and
energy consumption. All continuous improvements are currently registered in the system through a
requesting system.
that municipalities can use in order to ensure that the solutions chosen are based on the latest knowledge.
The solution can be sent directly out to tender. This means that the municipality does not develop solutions
themselves. Instead, they formulate some contractual requirements for the solving of the task, while the
supply company carries out the work itself. The municipality may choose in connection with an offering to
have its own advisor. This provides a technical partner who the municipality can lean against in relation to
the technical parts that an external company supplies.
ESCO constitute a particular form of tender, where the companies that bid for the job provides a guarantee
that the municipality will achieve the promised energy savings within a certain time frame. In Egedal were
an ESCO tender was used, because it created a good political security of being sure to get the invested
savings. The experience was not so good as the municipality spent quite a lot of resources on the
completion of the offering. Moreover, the offering ended up in a legal battle about contract criteria.
There are different variations of tender that the municipality can choose from. For instance, the
municipality may also choose to put less work in the contract. In Egedal they chose to send energy
renovation of one of the schools to tender to get some architectural skills involved that the municipality did
not have in-house.
Each local council has its own budget, in which they are able to allocate money to implement energy
savings. Egedal Municipality decided to earmark funds for this purpose in the form of an "energy pool" that
the Energy Coordinator may use.
ESCO also represents an economic tool because it provides an economic certainty that the projected
savings are achieved through the financial guarantee.
The municipality may have access to loans for energy-saving measures, depending on the national funding
schemes. In a Danish context, a municipality has the opportunity to go beyond the budget they have
available, if it is possible to finance the loan. In Egedal Municipality, the local council decided to use this
particular loan access to their energy measures in municipal buildings. The municipality has especially