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## [Start Managing Energy With The Right Tech Tools](https://www.newmanconsultinggroup.us/green-building-blog/managing-energy-with-tech-tools)

** Mon, Oct 12, 2015 @ 10:51 / by [Guest Post by Kelia Cowan, Aquicore](https://www.newmanconsultinggroup.us/green-building-blog/author/guest-post-by-kelia-cowan-aquicore) posted in [metering](https://www.newmanconsultinggroup.us/green-building-blog/topic/metering), [Optimized Building Solutions](https://www.newmanconsultinggroup.us/green-building-blog/topic/optimized-building-solutions), [energy efficiency](https://www.newmanconsultinggroup.us/green-building-blog/topic/energy-efficiency), [Energy Savings](https://www.newmanconsultinggroup.us/green-building-blog/topic/energy-savings), [energy management system](https://www.newmanconsultinggroup.us/green-building-blog/topic/energy-management-system)

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As property managers begin to prepare for potentially another cold winter, many have started questioning their current building operations’ energy efficiency. Rising energy costs, aging infrastructure, and inefficient mechanical equipment have piled up to create an operations system in desperate need of repair.

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## [Energy Management with Effective Metering - or If you don’t know, you can’t fix it!](https://www.newmanconsultinggroup.us/Green-Building-blog/bid/60013/Energy-Management-with-Effective-Metering-or-If-you-don-t-know-you-can-t-fix-it)

** Thu, Sep 27, 2012 @ 04:04 / by [Jim Newman](https://www.newmanconsultinggroup.us/green-building-blog/author/jim-newman) posted in [metering](https://www.newmanconsultinggroup.us/green-building-blog/topic/metering), [Energy Audit](https://www.newmanconsultinggroup.us/green-building-blog/topic/energy-audit)

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Lord Kelvin is credited with the saying "If you can not measure it, you can not improve it." To effectively measure, and ultimately improve, energy and natural resource use in a building, you must first know how much is used. To obtain the most accurate picture, a building must have meters on all the major users of energy and natural resources: electrical, gas and water.

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