GOOD PRACTICE EXAMPLE

Country:	Upper Austria
Product group:	IT,household appliances, lighting, building components
Name of the Institution:	LAND OBERÖSTERREICH

Overview

• Public procurement of the buildings owned and managed by the administration of Upper Austria
• there is a special division within the administration (“Abt. Gebäude- & Beschaffungsmanagement”) which is responsible for the procurement in all buildings owned by the public administration

Specifications of the Institution

Organisation of the procurement

• procurement for all buildings is done centrally by one division within the public administration (and one person is responsible for that)
• energy accounting and benchmarking for all buildings is also done centrally by the same person (~ data of 2,000 metering devices are analysed)
• tendering follows ÖNORM (for lighting) and includes energy performance indicators (for building components)
• higher investment costs to a certain extent are accepted if compensated by lower operation costs of energy efficient devices
• every investment project is guided by an experienced person (“Bauleiter")

Measures

• Since 10 years focus on efficient lighting (electronic ballast, efficient shiners, etc.)
• If household appliances are bought, only “A” appliances are bought
• Optimisation of electricity tariffs
• Only household appliances with energy efficiency “A” or better are purchased

Success

• Energy consumption per m² (heating & hot water) for all buildings was decreased by 18.5 % since 1994
• Electricity consumption stable despite “more IT” (mainly due to efficient lighting)

Further publicly available info about the concrete project

Results of the benchmarking (energy accounting) is published annually as part of the implementation report of the Upper Austrian energy strategy.