Analytics for Sustainable School Facilities

START, you can benchmark and visualize your school’s:

  • energy

  • waste

  • water

  • emissions

Building analytics in START are provided by sustainability analytics experts and GSA partners, Maalka.

START provides the most advanced data validation capabilities for sustainable buildings on the market. It allows real-time data normalization and validation so you can understand where you are and plan for where you want to go.

Energy Used

Emissions Generated

START enables you to benchmark and visualize your school’s:

Waste Produced

Water Consumed

More about START Building Analytics:

WHAT? START provides building analytics and visualization of utilities at the school-level (for individual schools) and at the district-level (for U.S. public schools).

HOW? Enter data from monthly bills into a simple spreadsheet or import from Energy Star Portfolio Manager® CSVs.

WHO? Ideal for school facilities managers or staff members who want to improve building efficiencies, lower costs and reduce their school’s environmental impact.

  • Analyze Buildings

    Better understand your school buildings’ performance and costs through data visualization.

  • Organize Files

    Store all data, files and bills related to energy, water and waste in a structured database.

  • Track Status

    Leverage verification workflows to track the status of documents you need.

  • Improve Efficiencies

    Use the power of data to set goals and track progress towards more sustainable school buildings.

START Building Analytics are powered by

GSA partners Maalka develop digital tools that accelerate the adoption of best practices in portfolios of buildings, enabling healthier workplaces and reducing environmental impacts. Additional Maalka programs that can be plugged into START* are:

*These additional features can be added to START upon request. For more information, contact info@maalka.com

Performance Targets

Performance Targets lets you discover and track progress towards reduction targets for energy, water, and emissions. Efficiency goals can be set for each building in a portfolio based on historical performance, national averages of similar buildings, or your local regulations. The EPA has shown this approach, on average, leads to annual energy-use savings of 7% for the typical building portfolio. Learn more.

Lifecycle

The Life Cycle tool guides users in the collection of data related to 6 primary building systems and 20 different types of Energy Efficiency measures as defined by the Department of Energy’s Building Sync schema. Program managers can track the collection of this data centrally and visualize the types of measures being proposed, implemented, and evaluated over time.