Siemens Building X Sustainability Manager

Data Sheet

Overview

The Building X Sustainability Manager is an analytical platform crafted to create transparency on energy, carbon, and water sustainability of entire building portfolios. It guides portfolio owners on their path to achieving Net-Zero Sustainability goals. Drawing data from utilities, third-party providers, building management systems, and cloud apps, it provides precise insights for your entire portfolio.

The app offers insights into your building portfolio's environmental footprint. It seamlessly aligns your portfolio's performance with targets and certifications, and proactively initiates strategies to reduce carbon emissions, energy, and water consumption.

Holistic Energy, Waste, and Water Assessment
In-Depth Reporting for Carbon Emissions
Guided Advisor for Decarbonization and Energy Reduction Measures
Streamlined Regulatory Compliance & Reporting for All Utilities
Efficient Utility Contract Tracking across the Board
Strategic Benchmarking & Planning for Net-Zero Targets & Certifications
A Unified Solution for Sustainable Growth and Positive Impact
Analytics on energy consumption

Learn more at: buildingx.siemens.com

Key Functions

Sites/Portfolio: Overview

Sustainability Manager provides an overview of the entire building portfolio, a breakdown of the portfolio such as by building type, business segment, or country.

The platform displays data for various sites, including:

Name
Country
Address
Building type
Business segment
Area [sqft]

Vendors Overview

Sustainability Manager provides comprehensive vendor management capabilities, enhancing the accuracy and traceability of market-based emissions reporting. Users can easily add and manage vendors by selecting from an extensive global Sustainability Manager database and associating them with their organization.

Users can create and manage multiple vendor accounts covering services such as electricity, natural gas, water, and more. Custom emission factors can be defined based on actual electricity purchases, including supplier-specific contracts and energy mix data, for precise calculation of market-based emissions aligned with the GHG Protocol.

Cost & Consumption

The Sustainability Manager provides full transparency into the energy, water, gas, and waste consumption and costs across entire building portfolios, helping portfolio owners improve energy efficiency and achieve their sustainability goals. It draws data from utility invoices and metered interval data systems to deliver precise, portfolio-wide insights.

The platform standardizes consumption units and cost data for comparability. Costs from different currencies are converted into a unified currency, and users can select their preferred units and currency to customize data display.

Cost Forecast

The cost forecast provides an overview of the client's forecasted energy cost and consumption for upcoming years based on historical utility data. These insights provide building, procurement, and c-suite executives with on-demand access to performance tracking across the client portfolio with additional flexibility for reporting and visualizations. Forecasts are currently not calculated automatically and require manual upload and calculation of data.

Carbon Emissions

Sustainability Manager calculates carbon emissions by both location and market-based accounting for their respective scope 1 and 2 emissions.

Location-based method: Calculates emissions based on the emissions intensity of the local grid area where electricity usage occurs, utilizing an extensive database of location-based emission factors from sources like the International Energy Agency (IEA), US EPA eGRID, and others.

Market-based method: Calculates emissions based on electricity purchased and instruments like Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs). This method allows for market-based carbon emission calculations.

Sustainability Manager also supports the management of vendor-specific emission factors, allowing users to assign factors based on actual energy purchases.

Supply Contract Management

The connector to the Siemens SupplyLine tool provides an overview of all vendor contracts across the building portfolio, including contract type and expiration date. This supports procurement teams in managing contracts. Active contracts can be downloaded from the platform. This feature is available for SupplyLine customers only.

Invoice Management

The invoices page shows all utility bills of the customer's portfolio, imported via the ISR connector. Users can filter by various options, such as site name, due date, and country. Users can also download the PDF of an invoice or download an Excel file containing all metadata information.

Certifications: EnergyStar

Users can compare and benchmark building performance with widely accepted EnergyStar schemes and scores. Building X Sustainability Manager allows easy connection to the Energy Star Portfolio Manager, enabling analysis of Energy Star scores from zero to 100.

Reporting

Users can create reports on their data in Sustainability Manager. Currently supported reports include Sites report, Invoice history report, Costs & consumption report, and Emissions reports.

Target Tracking: Decarbonize your Buildings to Reach Net-Zero

Sustainability Manager provides multiple decarbonization target tracking initiatives that enable customers to gain insights into their building sustainability and support customers in reaching their net-zero goals. Currently, three initiatives are implemented:

Carbon Risk Real Estate Monitoring (CRREM): Widely adopted for European buildings, applying the CRREM framework. It helps portfolio managers understand building portfolio alignment with the Paris Agreement (COP21) and identifies buildings exceeding carbon emissions limits for the 1.5°C goal. It also predicts when buildings might become stranded due to exceeding decarbonization targets and quantifies excess emissions and associated costs. CRREM is available for buildings in countries covered by the CRREM framework.
Science-based Targets initiative (SBTi): Applies the CRREM framework in a simplified way to buildings outside of Europe, helping customers track decarbonization goals by defining near-term and long-term (net-zero) emission targets.
New York City-based regulation Local Law 97 (LL97): Enacted in 2019, this law aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Buildings in NYC larger than 25,000 square feet must meet new energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions limits starting in 2024. Sustainability Manager supports customers with NYC-based buildings to monitor performance against emission limits and track penalty payments. Emissions limits and penalties can be tracked on a tenant level.

Efficiency Projects: Plan your Decarbonization Projects

Users can plan and monitor the decarbonization of their buildings by defining efficiency and retrofit projects. Customers can create and manage projects by selecting measures from a library, defining investment costs, and projected annual savings (emissions, cost, energy). Tracking these indicators and managing implementation status gives managers control over their projects and their impact towards net-zero targets.

Utility Data Analytics

Users can combine energy consumption data with additional data from weather providers to generate dynamic reports providing insights into building energy usage. Users can upload monthly and interval data in CSV format for various energy sources (electricity, natural gas, water, steam). Generated analyses are saved automatically in the cloud and can be retrieved and exported in PDF format.

Remote Web Access

Remotely accesses available web applications residing within the remote building automation control network at the connected site.

Accounts Application

Ability to manage users with a role-based access control. New users can be invited to access the Cloud Service and given appropriate access rights via user groups. Users can log in with two-factor authentication and manage their user account themselves. Data can be logically grouped into partitions and given access via user groups.

Subscription Options

Sustainability Manager is offered in three subscription options:

Essential: Basic features for invoice management, costs & consumption tracking, and basic reporting. Exclusively for customers in the United States within SEM's NBM program.
Standard: Basic features for cost and consumption tracking, carbon emissions, basic reporting, and management of invoices and energy supply contracts.
Premium: Adds the ability to track decarbonization targets (CRREM, SBTi) and includes energy efficiency and retrofit measures for portfolio decarbonization planning.

Customers in SEM's NBM program subscribe to the equivalent SEM Sustainability Dashboard offering (Essential, Standard, or Premium).

Prerequisites

Data Connectivity & Connected Devices

The Cloud Service integrates with data sources using the Sustainability Manager data ingest module, enabling swift uploads of customer and site data via predefined Excel file templates. Custom data connectors can be developed for expanded capabilities. The service is tailored to meet specific needs during initial engagement. Real-time building data utilization from Building X for portfolio-level analysis is part of the roadmap.

Supported Third-Party Software Connectivity

The Cloud Service is compatible with commercially available Third-Party Software, enabling data exchange. Supported connectors include:

CSV File upload (Utility Bill data)
Energy Manager 1.0
NBM (UBM connector)

The customer is responsible for Third-Party Software at the site and associated costs.

Web browser and Viewing Devices

Chrome is recommended. Screen resolution of 1920x1080 pixels or higher is recommended.

Internet Connection

Bandwidth of the customer's internet connection determines the performance of the Cloud Service.

Ordering

1) Ordering Standard Subscription Plan

To order the Cloud Service for the first time, request a quote from a Siemens sales representative. A link to the shopping cart will be provided. Customer needs to choose payment options and accept the Terms and Conditions to start using the Cloud Service. The “Terms and Conditions” include various documents such as the Building Products Specific Terms, Siemens Universal Customer Agreement, and Data Processing Terms. Customers can upgrade, downgrade, and cancel Cloud Services via the Subscription Manager online store: https://subscribe.siemens.com.

Product Documentation

1) Product Documentation under a Standard Subscription Plan

General Contractual Documents:

Building X - Sustainability Manager Data Sheet: www.siemens.com/buildingx/data-sheet/sustainability-manager
Supplemental Terms for Buildings: www.siemens.com/buildingx/data-sheet/supplemental-terms
General Software Terms and Cloud Supplemental Terms: https://www.siemens.com/si/cloud/terms
Base Terms International: https://www.siemens.com/si/cloud/terms
Siemens Acceptable Use Policy: https://www.siemens.com/si/cloud/terms
Minimum Terms: www.siemens.com/buildingx/data-sheet/minimum-terms

2) Product Documentation under a Custom Subscription Plan

Contractual documents and Product Documentation are set out in Siemens' offer to the Customer.

3) Data Privacy Terms

Data Privacy Terms: https://www.siemens.com/dpt/si
Data Privacy Terms Annexes Building X: https://www.siemens.com/dpt/si

Technical Documents

Technical Documentation:

Building X - Online help: www.siemens.com/buildingx/sid

Topology

The topology illustrates the integration of Sustainability Manager with various Siemens and third-party components, including Navigator Bill Manager, SupplyLine, B-X Operations Manager, B-X Energy Manager, and cloud services like AWS S3 bucket, Lambda, Glue, Athena, QuickSight, API Gateway, CloudFront, DynamoDB, and Step Functions. It also shows the flow of data from different sources to the Enforcement Layer and Deployment infrastructure, ultimately providing Spend and Usage Analytics, Costs, Budgets, Contracts, and Building Fleet information.

Specific Terms

High-Risk Use

Customers acknowledge that the Offerings are not designed for High-Risk Systems where their functioning is dependent on the Offerings, and that outcomes from data processing are beyond Siemens' control.

Service Level Agreement

Siemens aims for a monthly uptime of ninety-eight percent (98%), excluding planned downtime, cyberattacks, third-party network issues, customer-provided equipment failures, customer negligence, unsupported configurations, unauthorized access, and other factors outside Siemens' reasonable control.

Customer Support

Siemens offers helpdesk support. Customers can contact their local Siemens representative for support requests.

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