The project managers have extensive knowledge of local properties. They work on a practical level with
construction drawings and inspection of the buildings. They also have close contact with the technical
service personnel and users who work in or use the buildings. The project managers' local knowledge of the
buildings means that they can ensure the quality of the energy measures to be implemented and to ensure
that it becomes properly functioning solutions.
Compared to the renovation process, it turned out that several of the technical solutions proposed in the
ESCO contract were not detailed enough. This has meant that the project managers in cooperation with the
advisor from Jens-Peter Madsen ApS has stripped off several solutions. They could either not be
implemented or were not worth the chase. This shows that it takes good local knowledge of the building to
assess, which solutions are appropriate. An overall assessment and inspection may prove not to capture
essential details. The premises have turned out not to be implementable or would be inappropriate. The
project managers have thus helped ensure the quality of the technical solutions that were planned,
through a detailed scrutiny of the project.
Building and system technical expertise
The project managers are professionally equipped to assess the correlation between repayment and life of
the building. This means that from an overall economic point of view they are able to assess what is most
worthwhile completing. Moreover, they can put it into perspective relative to the life of the building.
In the energy renovation process, the project managers, in consultation with an adviser from Jens-Peter
Madsen ApS, has been responsible for prioritizing the energy measures that would be most appropriate for
implementation in the designated properties. The prioritization is based on an overall assessment of which
solutions are most worthwhile based in economic or maintenance considerations. These economic
considerations are made based on the repayment period. This means that the operation must be able to
pay for itself within its lifetime. For some initiatives the repayment period is high, but if there is
maintenance-related gains, in certain contexts the initiative is implemented anyway.
In order to assess the technical solutions in relation to each other, the adviser from Jens-Peter Madsen ApS,
made an inventory of all the technical solutions proposed. For each of the proposals, it is calculated, what
the necessary investments, savings and payback time is. Some of these are based on empirical assessments
that the project managers do not necessarily possess. The overview provides a basis for prioritizing
individual solutions in relation to each other and give an overview of the total pool of programs. The energy
label calculation method has been used to make these estimates and calculations.
The technical calculations form the basis of prioritizing the solutions, most worthwhile completing. These
priorities cannot be made by the external advisor, because there may be some considerations which should
be included in addition to the purely technical and economic. These are expressed for example in how the
project managers have been calculating, and prioritizing a few suggestions, although they have a long
repayment period. This is based on the view that the solution still may make sense because the component
of the maintenance plan may soon need to be replaced.
In this context, cooperation between the advisor and the project managers played a significant role. The
advisor from Jens-Peter Madsen ApS, explained the purely technical terms, while the project managers
were able to make some more practical assessments. This way the theoretical calculation has also been
examined from more practical municipal considerations.
Technical qualifications
The project managers' work with energy indicates that technical qualifications are important. On the one
hand, these managers has a technical overview of the state of the property. They have a good position for