Siveco and Terao to support energy saving program for Wuhan government buildings

Siveco China has been selected to provide maintenance consulting services and to setup the bluebee^® facilities management solution for a major public buildings rehabilitation program in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province. Siveco acts as subcontractor to green building engineering firm Terao (www.teraochinagb.cn), a long-time Siveco value-added partner in charge of the overall program.

The AFD (Agence Française de Développement) is financing a 20M Euros loan to China for the rehabilitation of public buildings in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province. The project aims at reducing China's greenhouse gases emissions through a more effective control of energy consumption in buildings, and at demonstrating that renovation of buildings in China can be self-financed through energy savings. Through successive phases, 33 administrative buildings belonging to Wuhan municipality, including Wuhan municipal library, will be refurbished, amounting to a total area of 1,300,000 m². An energy performance contract (EPC) mechanism is included in the project in order to ensure that the initial energy-saving objectives of 20% are achieved.

In order to go beyond the projects objectives, Siveco's maintenance experts will define operation and maintenance best practices adapted to the buildings after rehabilitation and to the various entities involved (government, construction companies, system suppliers, property management companies) and demonstrate their implementation through the use of the bluebee^® cloud platform by operation and maintenance personnel in charge of the buildings. This operation is financed by ADEME.

The bluebee^® solution is already widely used in the Chinese property market, by property management companies, retailers and technical service providers. This is however the first time it will be used in a government project, with clear energy savings objectives. Existing Siveco customers in Wuhan are mostly industrial plants such as Alstom Wuhan Boiler, Brose Wuhan, International Paper, etc.

Terao is a French green building engineering firm created in the early 90's and established in China since 2008. The company includes elite engineers and architects from France, China, Italy and Ireland and distinguished industry leaders from institutions such as Stanford University, Polytehnique and the Civil engineering and Architecture University of Beijing. With offices in Paris, Lyon and Beijing, Terao has taken part in more than 100 high performance and certificated projects.

ADEME (www.ademe.fr) is a French public agency under administrative supervisions of the French Ministry for Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy. ADEME main mission is to help operations that aims at protecting environment or increasing energy efficiency. ADEME is financing the mission of TERAO and Siveco to improve the maintenance practices in Wuhan.

Siveco is the largest maintenance consultancy in China, celebrating its 10 years anniversary in 2014. Based on a long experience of "maintenance with Chinese characteristics", Siveco has developed a unique approach to address the needs of plants, facilities and infrastructures owners in China through the utilization of technological tools. While the market has historically been plagued by IT suppliers without understanding of industrial reality, Siveco is run by maintenance people for maintenance people, focusing on obtaining rapid and sustainable improvement.

Siveco supports best practices in maintenance, facility management and risk prevention through a range of services including assessment, maintenance engineering, CMMS implementation, etc. Siveco provides a suite of very intuitive mobile solutions "for the worker of tomorrow", known as bluebee^®, running on its own cloud computing platform and compatible with any back-office maintenance system. bluebee^® has won multiple awards including the prestigious 2010 Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solutions, Plant Engineering Product of the Year 2012, Engineers' Choice Award 2013 and CHaINA Award 2013.

Siveco has over 800 customer sites in China, including ABB, Alstom, Arkema, Brose, Carrefour China, CEPSA, Changcheng Property Group, CNEEC, Fushun Mining Group, GDF Suez, Greenland Holdings, IKEA, International Paper, Nokia, Saint-Gobain, Shanghai World Expo 2010 pavilions, Sichuan Lutianhua, Sogefi, ZF, etc. The company also boasts a growing export business, working alongside Asian EPC companies building plants in Southeast Asia, the Middle-East and Africa.

Siveco China is headquartered in Shanghai, where it also operates a R&D center, and has with two branch offices in Chengdu and Beijing. The company is a subsidiary of Siveco Group, Europe's largest CMMS supplier with over 90,000 users worldwide.

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