Case Studies
Boots
Ensuring best practice estate management to lower running, maintenance and capital costs.
Critical Reason: Reduce rising annual and growing operational and energy costs
Alliance Boots, the UK’s leading Chemist, have engaged ADAM to help the group to ensure that best practice estate management is continued and sustained in all stores, without the need for a traditional hard-wired Building Energy Management System (BEMS). By doing this, the group believes that they will lower their energy costs by 7% and their unplanned maintenance costs by 10%.
| Boots Requirement | ADAM Solution |
|---|---|
| No disruption to operating environment during Installation | Installation completed within normal operating hours with no disruption to trade or environment due to ADAM’s exclusive wireless technology. |
| Reduce consumption day and night all year. | 24/7 Energy consumption reduction achieved year round achieved (See graph below) |
| Maintain optimum operating environment i.e. Temperature and light levels. | Pro active alarm management bureau monitoring all clubs during all operating hours. |
| Reduce consumption by 10% | Average energy savings – 15.4% |
| Prevent business critical conditions | Alarm function and text function enabling instant notification of plant faults high/low temperatures etc |
| Achieve paybacks of less than 3 years | Payback 2.9 years |
"ADAM take responsibility to not only lower the costs of running a retail estate – but they bring a ‘can do’ attitude that is refreshing in the market place. By constantly investing in the R&D of their product suite – they bring innovation and creativity into our estate." Martin Hawes (Head of Engineering) and Ian Westran (Group Engineering)
Alliance Boots wanted a way to ensure that stores were not wasting energy (Lighting & HVAC) throughout day and night-time periods, and to work with a partner who could provide transparency into unplanned maintenance costs. ADAM and Alliance Boots committed to the following programme: