IFPEB organizes the CUBE Championship Contest
Objective of the Contest
A building’s energy consumption is the product of three factors: the quality of its construction, the quality of technical operations, and the responsible use by occupants. While it is easy to work on the first two factors, which are primarily technical, it is more challenging to address the human factor, that is, to train occupants to use energy responsibly.
The Efficient Building Usage Contest (CUBE) is a public interest initiative aimed at helping users of commercial or residential buildings effectively reduce their consumption by focusing on usage, better management, and operations. It involves implementing a fun competition among participants.
How does it work?
For a period of one year, the users of buildings participating in the contest must achieve energy savings compared to a reference consumption determined from the consumption of previous years. To do this, occupants can improve their operations, implement minor technical actions, and perform eco-friendly actions (e.g., better energy management based on actual usage).
The energy savings, observed from the monthly energy bills reported by the participating buildings, will result in a monthly ranking by contest categories, followed by a final ranking and awards. For new, recently renovated, or highly efficient buildings, a specific ranking will consist of getting as close as possible to a threshold value determined according to the methodology used in the tertiary decree.
Competing buildings will also be awarded medals (bronze, silver, gold, or platinum) based on achieving absolute energy savings thresholds (regardless of their ranking).
The contest will be accompanied by significant promotion and communication to highlight the engaged organizations and the best results.
Communication
By applying for the competition, the company or organization involved expressly authorizes A4MT to use its company name, its logo (the “distinctive signs”), and the number of buildings in competition, in the context of the production of the competition newsletter or the launch and closing events. The Distinctive Signs may be used, grouped with those of all the candidates, on any communication medium dedicated to the competition.
Sincerity of the consumption data
Registration procedures
- Entering the contact details of the committed company or organization that seeks to register (a) building(s)
- Proceeding with payment to cover the registration fee
- Registering the candidate building(s)!
Candidate resources
Candidate Resource Kits
A CUBE communication kit is given to the candidates (in electronic form). It contains the following various documents:
- “CUBE Candidate Company” and “competing buildings” logos, which can be used in the internal and external communication of the company, posters, stickers, etc.
- Technical instructions
- A deployment guide
- Feedback from previous phases
The committed companies/organizations are allowed to communicate internally or externally about their participation in the contest CUBE with the supplied communications support.
Recommended optimizations
If the first priority is to mobilize the occupants, the optimization of the operation is strongly recommended: adjustment of the setpoint temperatures, programming of the BMS as accurately as possible, optimization of computer resources (turning off unused devices, elimination of standby), implementation of local controls (switches), etc.
If heavy works concerning energy performance are excluded during the year preceding the competition which aims above all to improve the buildings in occupation, the building, after one year of competition, optimized on the uses and its piloting, will be in an ideal situation to consider them.
Communications & Events throughout the competition
Continuous communication, updates & events are provided to candidates from the beginning to the end of the contest. Some examples of what this will consist of:
- Three CUBE informational candidate meetings
- Press releases during key moments (to announce rankings, progress made, provide interviews, articles, etc.)
- A launch event
- An Awards Ceremony
- News about the challenge in the media by our media partners
The candidate representatives (national contacts) receive our updates & are invited to our various events. Throughout the contest, the best stories, candidate interviews, and the most original initiatives are highlighted in our newsletters & shared with all candidates periodically.
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Your Participant Package
- Access to the interface that tracks your consumption (compared to previous years), your progress, your savings and competition rankings
- Provision of a communications kit for internal and external use (logos, posters, etc.) to display and promote your participation
- The right to communicate on your participation
- The possibility of organising an internal “sub-competition” between several buildings from the same company/organisation
- A good practice guide and feedback from the first editions of the competition
- Media partner broadcasts
- An invitation to the opening and closing ceremonies
- Participation in 4 half-days to shed light on energy performance levers in commercial buildings
Prizes & Awards
PLATINUM MEDAL
more than 25% energy savings,
GOLD MEDAL
20 to 25% savings,
SILVER MEDAL
15 to 20% savings,
BRONZE MEDAL
10 to 15% energy savings.
The winners of each category
earn the top three prizes on the podium
Categories & Prizes
Categories of the CUBE contest
The contest organizers assign the various tertiary buildings in the categories in which they will compete, from the information entered during registration, to the following categories:
- Category of certified office buildings in operation (HQE, BREEAM In Use, ISO 50 001)
- Categories of non-certified office buildings, possibly classified into homogeneous subcategories of size if there are many candidates
- Category higher education buildings
- Category state buildings
- Category public buildings and local authorities
- Category buildings of the DROM
- Category semi-industrial buildings
- Category commercial buildings
- Category international building
Podiums and prizes
For each of the above categories, a “podium” will be declared consisting of a winner, a runner-up and a third, with the corresponding prizes being a gold, silver and bronze CUBE respectively.
In addition, on each previous podium, when the performance revealed by the competition will have been the result of a beautiful collaboration :
- Between a user and their landlord,
- Between a user and his energy efficiency consultant (operator, design office, energy manager…)
- For collective housing buildings, a manager and the residents (represented by the residents’ committee).
This collaboration, with their approval, will be honored: both will be on the podium, an article will be written.
Some thematic prizes
Three thematic prizes for tertiary buildings will also be awarded:
- Category “greenhouse gases” (focus on CO2 progression),
- Best progression of the park: the company or organization that made the greatest savings on all the buildings declared in the competition (more than 5 buildings),
- Category Other Continents and Overseas Departments and Regions,
- Better communication/awareness campaign
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Candidate confidentiality
Candidate Confidentiality
The tool for processing the candidates’ contact information will be declared to the CNIL.
As this is a program of general interest, candidates will not be approached in the context of the competition on energy-saving assistance, unless explicitly requested by the candidate.
Similarly, as this is a program of general interest, the information entered will not be used in a commercial context.
Consumption data
The site description and energy consumption data collected for the competition are not made public in any way, except for the three winners of each category of the competition in a summary manner.
During the monthly publication of the rankings, only the names of the first twenty candidates in the general ranking and the first three candidates in each category are made public.
The participants give the right to a non-nominative use, without reference to the buildings or to the company or organization, of the consumption data collected for the purpose of disseminating statistical results of the contest (average savings over the entire contest, standard deviations or any other statistical interpretations, etc.)
