Facility and sustainability professionals are tracking data on their operational and
environmental performance, but most of that is confined to tracking electricity data using an Excel spreadsheet. That
is among the key findings of a survey conducted by sustainaility consultants iReuse.
Many survey respondents indicated they are tracking electricity, with about half tracking water, waste, or natural
gas. However, almost half also said they are not tracking any other data such as green purchasing metrics or
measuring their carbon footprints.
An overwhelming majority of respondents indicated that they used Excel because it
was cheap and widely available, but acknowledged that Excel is "cumbersome" for this purpose and leads to data entry
errors and the need for custom formulas.
Highlights from Survey Results:
- 74% of respondents are tracking some utility data, with 72% of those tracking electricity, 51% tracking water,
and less than half tracking natural gas and waste diversion. - 44% of respondents indicated that utility data is tracked by facilities, 24% by the sustainability department,
and 16% by the accounting department. - 46% do not track any other sustainability metrics such as green purchasing, business travel, employee
commute, or a carbon footprint. - 86% of respondents currently use Excel to track their utility data, but only 33% are satisfied or very satisfied
with this tool.
"This underscores what we have heard from many facility and property managers directly," said Ken Kurtzig, CEO of
iReuse. "Businesses need better tracking solutions to help them move beyond just electricity to
more fully tracking sustainability metrics."
The “Facility and Sustainability Data Management Survey“ is available as a pdf at the link below.
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