Electricity costs are up over 30%. For many independent schools, that’s hundreds of thousands of dollars in unplanned spending. Arch Energy, Consigli’s energy division, empowers schools to take control by benchmarking operations, leveraging real data to gain visibility into energy use and uncovering quick wins in your highest-use areas like dining halls, ice rinks and pools.
Our Solution: Performance-Driven Action
Our approach is grounded in data, tailored to unique constraints and guided by long-term thinking. These three steps can help your school shift away from quick fixes and toward long-term performance.
Step 1: Centralize Your Utility Data
Bring all your utility accounts and building automation systems into one place. When data is unified, facility teams gain real-time visibility into building performance, making it easier to track usage, benchmark efficiency and spot opportunities to reduce waste. This transparency also helps your campus community—students, faculty and parents—to see progress toward sustainability goals.
Step 2: Start Small
Most buildings lose 30–50% of energy through ventilation, heat rejection or inefficient systems. Begin by analyzing your centralized data to uncover quick wins like optimizing airflow, reusing heat or lowering hot water temperatures. These small changes can significantly cut energy demand and operating costs while setting the stage for long-term improvements.
Step 3: Build a Plan That Works for Your School
Use the insights from your data to create a roadmap tailored to your budget and timeline. A clear plan helps prioritize actions that reduce energy costs and free up funds to reinvest where it matters most: enhancing learning environments and supporting your students and faculty.
Arch Energy acts as your partner throughout this process, providing the tools to centralize your data, uncover actionable insights and guide you in building a practical, cost-effective energy roadmap that’s right for your campus.
Where We’re Doing It
Energy Optimization at Phillips Academy — Andover
When Phillips Academy set out to optimize energy use across its campus, the goal was clear: reduce costs and carbon footprint while empowering students to take part in the journey. By integrating 240 electric, steam and HVAC data points across 75 buildings, the school gained real-time insights that transformed decision-making. The results speak for themselves: upwards of 10% in energy savings and a campus-wide culture shift. During the student-led Green Cup Challenge, dorms competed to lower their energy use, achieving 6.3% reductions and sparking conversations about sustainability that extended beyond the classroom.
Contact
Kailash Viswanathan, CEM, LEED AP
kviswanathan@consigli.com | LinkedIn
As Director of Energy for Arch Energy, Kailash leverages over three decades of engineering and operations experience to help clients navigate through different stages of the decarbonization journey by planning and implementing low-carbon infrastructure strategies.