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29.03.2016

KAHRAMAA felicitates Participants in Tarsheed Energy Audit Study

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​As part of the National Program for Conservation and Energy Efficiency (Tarsheed), Qatar General Electricity & Water Corporation (KAHRAMAA) has felicitated a number of organizations today at KAHRAMAA Awareness Park for their contribution in conducting Energy Audits of their buildings in order to explore the possible areas of energy and water savings in their buildings, achieving the objectives set out for ongoing the National Program for Conservation and Energy Efficiency “Tarsheed”.

The audited organizations were honored with Certificate of Appreciations from Eng. Abdul Azeez Al- Hammadi, Conservation and Energy Efficiency (CN) Department Manager at KAHRAMAA amidst the presence of a number of senior functionaries of participating firms including Eng. Hashim Al Sada, Head of Conservation Technology at KAHRAMAA’s Conservation and Energy Efficiency Department. These entities were also provided with the detailed audit reports which contained the analysis of the energy use of these buildings along with Energy Conservation measures, their cost and benefits.

The Conservation and Energy Efficiency Department of KAHRAMAA conducted thorough Energy Audit in various types of buildings by an expert team. In the government buildings category, KAHRAMAA Main Tower, Ashghal Tower 2 and main building of Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs- Awqaaf were audited besides 5 mosques. In the commercial category, Safwa Building (Barwa commercial Avenue), Al Faisal Tower and Doha Bank were audited while in Commercial retails building category, Lulu Hypermarket, Safari and Family Food Center were audited. 

Apart from these buildings, five schools were also audited. The participating schools are  the Abu Obaida Independent Preparatory School for boys, Al Gharraffa, Ibn Khaldoon Preparatory Independent School for boys, Al Rayyan, Hamad bin Abdullah bin Jassim Secondary Independent school for boys, Bani Hajer, Khalifa Independent Secondary School for Boys, Madinath Khalifa South and Nasser Bin Abdullah Secondary School for Boys, Al Khartiat.

The recommendations based on the furnished audit reports have been classified into three types: High Cost/Medium Cost & low to no No cost measures – The payback period of these measures are less than 2 years, Medium cost measures – The payback period of these measure are between 2-5 years, Invest grade measure – The payback period of these measures are more than 5 years.

Tarsheed’s  appreciated the measures taken by these organizations for the smooth conduct of the study. This study report will help these entities to conserve energy and water in their premises. 

As per the Energy and Water audit recommendations, the common best considered practices in operation and maintenance are the implementing of Energy Monitoring and Management System, setting higher temperatures for air conditioners (above 25oC) during non-occupancy hours, reducing the lighting level during non-occupied hours, reducing the speed of ventilation and extract fans during non-occupied hours and installing water saving aerators.

The National program for Conservation and Energy Efficiency (Tarsheed) which was launched as a campaign in year 2012 under the patronage of His Highness the Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al- Thani, is marching towards achieving good result. The prime target of Tarsheed is to reduce the per capita water and electricity consumption per capita in Qatar by 35% & 20%, respectively until 2017 and preserving this decrease till 2020 within the expected increase in population & demand.
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