Measuring up to the CRC

WARWICK, England, March 9, 2010 - "It is estimated that around 20% of the 5,000 or so organisations
participating fully in the Carbon Reduction Commitment programme will have
been audited by April 2012," warns Steve Dingley of data management
specialists Integrated fm. "And there is a very real danger that many of
these organisations will not complete the necessary steps for measuring,
validating and managing their energy data in time," he adds.

Dingley was speaking at the official launch of the company's latest
product, Sustainability iQ - the world's first truly auditable management
system for CSR and sustainability.

"Our research with a number of private and public sector organisations
shows that the ability of many organisations to implement an effective energy
management strategy is severely limited by a number of factors. Even if they
know what data they need to capture, they will probably have to implement
processes for gathering that data from diverse sources and in different
formats.

"In addition, there may be no data auditing process in place - and
without that the data will lack validity and credibility. In fact, it was
because of these challenges that we worked closely with one of the world's
leading consultancies to develop Sustainability iQ," Dingley continued.

Built on over 20 years' experience of managing operational data,
Sustainability iQ is fully web-enabled and highly configurable to suit each
organisation's processes, as well as industry-wide standards (e.g. Defra,
Accounting for Sustainability,). It can import data from a wide range of
sources, and all data is validated and made available for fast evaluation and
reporting, with a full audit trail of origins and any changes.

"The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme is going to be a major challenge to
many larger organisations and a key element of managing and improving energy
consumption and minimising environmental impact will be the ability to
measure existing energy performance in real-time. This is one of the many CSR
areas that Sustainability iQ can help with," Dingley concluded.

    Contact
    Rachel Wesson
    Tel: +44(0)1926-517700
    E-mail: iqteam@integratedfm.com
    Web: www.integratedfm.com/sustainabilityiq

Contact: Rachel Wesson, Tel: +44(0)1926-517700, E-mail: iqteam at integratedfm.com, Web: www.integratedfm.com/sustainabilityiq