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C O M P A N YO V E R V I E W

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH:

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Written by: John O’Hanlon

Produced by: Josef Smith

PUTTING ENERGY in its place

Climate change targets apart, businesses, utilities and facilities can save millions on energy by buying smart and cutting waste: Spotless Group has put together a

business unit to help them do just that

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Written by: John O’Hanlon

Produced by: Josef Smith

PUTTING ENERGY in its place

Climate change targets apart, businesses, utilities and facilities can save millions on energy by buying smart and cutting waste: Spotless Group has put together a

business unit to help them do just that

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L isted on the ASX, Spotless is one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest and most

diverse services groups with interests in facility management, catering and hospitality, cleaning, security, asset management, maintenance, HVAC, mechanical and electrical and utility support services. It started in 1946 with a single dry cleaning store in Melbourne and now employs more than 36,000 people. UASG delivers tailored utility and telecommunications service solutions across all sectors including government and large corporations, employing around 2,000 people. Over the last couple of years it made a decisive move into the field of contracted-out services when it put together the recently acquired entities Utility Asset Management (UAM), Skilltech (a meter reading company) and Fieldforce (a long established energy efficiency specialist) under the leadership of Stephen Ellich, a seasoned CEO with long experience in the telecommunications sector.

Ellich heads up the Infrastructure, Telecommunications and Utilities

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group sector within Spotless, and is CEO both of UASG and of the technical and engineering services contracting company AE Smith (AES). Acquired by Spotless in 2015, AES has built a great reputation in mechanical, electrical, energy, fire, hydraulics, plumbing and refrigeration work since it was founded in 1898. It was a considered a particularly good fit alongside

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UASG, he explains: “Many customers of Spotless have faced challenges with understanding and curtailing their energy spend, and also finding sustainability options around water consumption. Most of the public debate around energy conservation, including solar, wind and battery power, has been conducted at the consumer level, but there has been far less within the medium to large commercial and industrial sector.”

Key People

Stephen EllichCEO of UASG & AES

Stephen is a senior executive with a 20+ year proven track record of success in leading large, complex, national organisations through establishment, development and transformational change to deliver sustainable growth, profitability and strong operating cash flow. His business expertise has a strong focus on sustainable growth through innovation, combined with astute financial acumen, international experience and the maturity of a senior executive with Board experience, positions him to contribute at all levels.

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Energy: the hidden costSpotless plays its part in that

sector as a large facilities manager. Within the group, UASG has been able to identify a need and create a unique customer value

proposition, he continues. “We believe we can deal effectively with ‘managing down’ a customer’s energy consumption and in doing so provide an immediate and long term economic benefit to those

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customers.” Strategically, this involves moving the company’s mindset away from the proposition that it would carry out project tasks for an agreed sum and then walk away. Instead consider the

problem holistically, auditing the customer’s energy usage, identify the root causes and then engineer an end-to-end solution. In cases where the customer prefers not to fund the capital outlay involved, the

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Smart metering: effective way to reduce cost of energy

With our experience of deploying smart meters: Great Britain (1million) and Australia (1.4 million), Secure canprovide retailers in Australia with a solution that allows them to offer a high quality service to theircustomers. This solution can help consumers save money and reduce their carbon footprint.

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Secure Australasia Pty Ltd258 Darebin Road, Fairfield VIC 3078, Australia | t: +61 3 9485 6000 | f: +61 3 9485 6099 | www.securetogether.com

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SUPPLIER PROFILE

Employees: 2500+ (globally), 40+ (Australia)Established: 1987 (globally), 2004 (Australia)Industry: Energy meteringServices: Electricity metering and data services

Management:Michael Guy, Managing DirectorIan Levell, General Manager (Sales and Marketing)Peter Taylor, General Manager (AMI Solutions)

Visit our website: www.securetogether.com

Secure Australasia is part of a group focused on developing, manufacturing and deploying products and solutions for energy measurement and monitoring. Secure works across the entire energy chain, including utilities, energy retailers, commercial and homes. While we work at the frontiers of technology enabling ‘smart’ energy control and management, we believe in focusing on customer and consumer needs. A 500 strong R&D team focuses on better smart grid and energy management solutions.

A reflection of our commitment to our customers, our participation in the design and specification of products for the Australian market has culminated in a range of meters that meet all electronic metering requirements of standards and approvals specific to the region. The Melbourne site hosts a fully accredited NATA 17025 laboratory, delivering metering support services. Secure has over 1,400,000 smart meters deployed in Australia to date.

As the energy optimisation and climate change debate intensifies, our group has been developing products and solutions, together with like-minded strategic partners to offer relevant and innovative

solutions to our customers. The Secure UASG-Skilltech partnership is a reflection of this thinking.

UASG-Skilltech have worked with Secure as the solution provider to deliver integrated and appropriate metering services to their customers, including:

• manuallyreadelectronicmeters• embeddednetwork;point-to-multi point;meteringsystems• fullend-to-endsmartmetering solutions.

A recent project being undertaken through the partnership is for the upgrade of Secure’s 3 phase manually read meters at a 500+ apartment building complex. These meters will be upgraded to deliver data remotely through a point-to-multipoint RS485/3G solution. This will remove the need to manually read meters and provide tenants with more timely and accurate billing.

Going forward, Secure is embracing reforms under the Power of Choice where metering will become contestable in turn promoting innovation leading to greater choice for customers.

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Innovative Solutions for Modern Metering

Strongcast is an innovative company manufacturing and supplying cutting edge ancillary products to the domestic water metering industry. We offer a unique consultation and development service with the capacity to structure infrastructural upgrades to reduce the amount of non-revenue water losses through the use of advanced products and strategies.

2-6 Bishop DrivePort of Brisbane, QLD Australia 4178Phone: (07) 3207 1753Email: [email protected]: www.strongcast.com.au

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solution might involve a financial as well as an operational solution. The contractor funds deployment over a period of up to 15 years, under a model that delivers economic benefit to the customer from day one, with that benefit growing each year thenceforward.

A good example of this was Spotless’s own laundry business. The 19 sites across Australia, some of them dating from the 1950s, faced increased annual energy costs of more than A$1 million as of 2017. Doing nothing was not an option, so UASG looked at replacing old and gas or electric boilers with the latest energy efficient gas micro turbines or co-generation plant as a way to generate power at a cheaper rate. Where appropriate, solar deployment is considered as well: low energy lighting, meter reconfiguration and water recycling solutions are also considered

to improve efficiency. “We can upgrade the critical infrastructure on site to provide a reduction in energy and water consumption using technology that will be able to deliver the same functionality at a much lower cost,” he says. Though each case is unique, typically an investment of a couple of million dollars will be recovered by the customer within three years - thereafter those savings go direct to that customer’s bottom line. If UASG funds deployment the savings will be seen from year one, while capital costs are recovered over a longer period.

Solutions like these apply to any high

Innovative Solutions for Modern Metering

Strongcast is an innovative company manufacturing and supplying cutting edge ancillary products to the domestic water metering industry. We offer a unique consultation and development service with the capacity to structure infrastructural upgrades to reduce the amount of non-revenue water losses through the use of advanced products and strategies.

2-6 Bishop DrivePort of Brisbane, QLD Australia 4178Phone: (07) 3207 1753Email: [email protected]: www.strongcast.com.au

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CLEAN, LOW POWER ELECTRICITY WHEN AND WHERE IT’S NEEDED, WITH HIGH EFFICIENCY HEAT RECOVERY SYSTEMS UP TO 90% EFFICIENCY.

www.optimalgroup.com.auWithin Australia: 1300 678 476Outside Australia: +613 9545 1077Email: [email protected]

Optimal Group Australia Pty Ltd9 Bastow Place MulgraveVictoria, 3170 Australia

Optimal Group distribute the unique Capstone Microturbine and specialise in grid connected and off grid power generation solutions. Our modular, exible and reliable low emission power, cogeneration & trigeneration solutions deliver cleaner, lower cost and more reliable energy for a range of industries. Solutions range from 30 kW to 10 MW, tailored to any application.from 30 kW to 10 MW, tailored to any application.

Experience the benefits of onsite power

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energy use business. Laundries are one; another good example would be leisure and aquatic centres and these days few businesses can afford to stay as they are where energy use is concerned. One large not-for-profit services provider for people with disabilities undertook a comprehensive energy upgrade across its facilities: within three

months it reported that its energy usage was down by 15 percent, and that it expects to achieve annual savings of $31,000 in HVAC and lighting costs alone. It also remarked on a huge reduction in maintenance call-outs thanks to the greater reliability of the assets installed – and in this case it’s worth noting that the customer was

CLEAN, LOW POWER ELECTRICITY WHEN AND WHERE IT’S NEEDED, WITH HIGH EFFICIENCY HEAT RECOVERY SYSTEMS UP TO 90% EFFICIENCY.

www.optimalgroup.com.auWithin Australia: 1300 678 476Outside Australia: +613 9545 1077Email: [email protected]

Optimal Group Australia Pty Ltd9 Bastow Place MulgraveVictoria, 3170 Australia

Optimal Group distribute the unique Capstone Microturbine and specialise in grid connected and off grid power generation solutions. Our modular, exible and reliable low emission power, cogeneration & trigeneration solutions deliver cleaner, lower cost and more reliable energy for a range of industries. Solutions range from 30 kW to 10 MW, tailored to any application.from 30 kW to 10 MW, tailored to any application.

Experience the benefits of onsite power

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BlueScope Plate Supplies is proud to be associated with UASG, providing quality steel products and supply solutions.

BLUESCOPE AND UASG

RELATIONSHIPS MADE OF STEEL .

ABOUT BLUESCOPE PLATE SUPPLIESBlueScope Plate Supplies offers a wide range of high quality Australian made steel plate products backed by our expert technical support and flexible supply.

OUR PRODUCT RANGEOur range of products comprise:

• TRU-SPEC® steel

• XLERPLATE® steel

• Weathering Steel

• Boiler & Pressure Vessel Plate

• Quenched & Tempered Plate

• Aluminium

OUR SERVICE OFFERAs part of the BlueScope group of companies, we have the ability to investigate and produce specially designed steel grades outside our standard range and offer a number of third party certification options as well as non-standard test requirements.

We’re committed to providing high quality processing capabilities, ranging from simple processing to more complex and precise processing work. Backed by our commitment to quality, all our products comply with Australian standards and we hold ISO 9001 Quality Management System Accreditation.

Key to our offer is our ability to provide JIT delivery services and consistent quality products. With our significant stock holdings we are able to deliver on time, ensuring consistent supply and quality, providing value to key clients like Utility Asset Services Group, (UASG).

OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH UASGBy working closely together, we are able to ensure both businesses achieve mutually beneficial outcomes and seek out ways to improve through a culture of excellence and innovation. We are able to respond quickly to UASG needs and can accommodate adjustments to project requirements, including design and scheduling changes, without missing critical deadlines.

OUR INNOVATIVE STEEL EFFICIENCY REVIEW™With our Steel Efficiency Review™ offer, we can look closely at your business operations to identify potential cost and time savings and make incremental changes which can translate into profit improvements. We have worked closely with UASG to continually improve and increase efficiency in the areas of stock, forecasting and material flow management thereby ensuring optimal supply chain and resource management.

For more information call on 1800 549 197 or visit bluescopeplatesupplies.com.au.

XLERPLATE®, TRU-SPEC®, BlueScope Plate Supplies and BlueScope Brand Mark are registered trademarks of BlueScope Steel Limited.© 2016 BlueScope Steel Limited ABN 16 000 011 058. All rights reserved. Steel Efficiency Review is a trade mark of BlueScope Steel Limited. ABN 16 000 011 058

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helped by AES to obtain a $134,000 grant from the Community Energy Efficiency Program (CEEP), which provides co-funding to local governing bodies and non-profit community organisations for energy efficiency projects.

The combined expertise of UASG and AES is now united under a common management team, with regional general managers in each state, with the exception of large and complex construction projects requiring skilled project management, which are looked after by a national AES general

manager. The largest such contract currently on hand, worth some $100 million, is to provide HVAC and other elements for the Queensland Government’s $1.8 billion Sunshine Coast University Hospital funded by Lendlease, a new public tertiary teaching hospital. The work started early in 2015 and will be completed later this year, and the hospital is due to open in 2017.

A new model for BOOT“Our business has deep and

broad engineering expertise,” says Ellich. “When a customer

BlueScope Plate Supplies is proud to be associated with UASG, providing quality steel products and supply solutions.

BLUESCOPE AND UASG

RELATIONSHIPS MADE OF STEEL .

ABOUT BLUESCOPE PLATE SUPPLIESBlueScope Plate Supplies offers a wide range of high quality Australian made steel plate products backed by our expert technical support and flexible supply.

OUR PRODUCT RANGEOur range of products comprise:

• TRU-SPEC® steel

• XLERPLATE® steel

• Weathering Steel

• Boiler & Pressure Vessel Plate

• Quenched & Tempered Plate

• Aluminium

OUR SERVICE OFFERAs part of the BlueScope group of companies, we have the ability to investigate and produce specially designed steel grades outside our standard range and offer a number of third party certification options as well as non-standard test requirements.

We’re committed to providing high quality processing capabilities, ranging from simple processing to more complex and precise processing work. Backed by our commitment to quality, all our products comply with Australian standards and we hold ISO 9001 Quality Management System Accreditation.

Key to our offer is our ability to provide JIT delivery services and consistent quality products. With our significant stock holdings we are able to deliver on time, ensuring consistent supply and quality, providing value to key clients like Utility Asset Services Group, (UASG).

OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH UASGBy working closely together, we are able to ensure both businesses achieve mutually beneficial outcomes and seek out ways to improve through a culture of excellence and innovation. We are able to respond quickly to UASG needs and can accommodate adjustments to project requirements, including design and scheduling changes, without missing critical deadlines.

OUR INNOVATIVE STEEL EFFICIENCY REVIEW™With our Steel Efficiency Review™ offer, we can look closely at your business operations to identify potential cost and time savings and make incremental changes which can translate into profit improvements. We have worked closely with UASG to continually improve and increase efficiency in the areas of stock, forecasting and material flow management thereby ensuring optimal supply chain and resource management.

For more information call on 1800 549 197 or visit bluescopeplatesupplies.com.au.

XLERPLATE®, TRU-SPEC®, BlueScope Plate Supplies and BlueScope Brand Mark are registered trademarks of BlueScope Steel Limited.© 2016 BlueScope Steel Limited ABN 16 000 011 058. All rights reserved. Steel Efficiency Review is a trade mark of BlueScope Steel Limited. ABN 16 000 011 058

“Many customers today want to do these upgrades but don’t have the technical know-how or the capital to do it”– Stephen Ellich, CEO of UASG & AES

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Contact Andrew Fletchere. [email protected]: 1300 956 523 www.jpwassociates.com

JPW partners with utilities worldwide by offering maintenance, consultation, and innovation to their meter interrogation hardware.

OOur comprehensive maintenance programs reduce downtime and expense, while our advanced solutions deliver interoperability across diverse hardware platforms. Our goal is to redefine the way you think about service.

JPW Serviced Sectors: • Manufacturing• Warehousing• Airline baggage handling• Sports venue gate ticketing• Route delivery•• Car rental• Lumbering• Security access control• Citation enforcement• Oil drilling

It’s time to redefine expectations andtransform the face of Industry - together.

A Fresh Start.

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wants to talk about their problem these experts look at their billing and tariffs and walk through their property as a first pass to identify the potential spectrum of engineering opportunities and the savings than might be available. If that looks positive we take it to the next stage where we do a very deep audit on their physical infrastructure, then

provide them with a detailed costing and economic impact model.” This is submitted in two forms, he explains, one funded by the customer, one by UASG.

The latter is the build, own, operate, transfer (BOOT) model, which many readers will be familiar with applied to construction and civil engineering. It has not, however, been much used

Contact Andrew Fletchere. [email protected]: 1300 956 523 www.jpwassociates.com

JPW partners with utilities worldwide by offering maintenance, consultation, and innovation to their meter interrogation hardware.

OOur comprehensive maintenance programs reduce downtime and expense, while our advanced solutions deliver interoperability across diverse hardware platforms. Our goal is to redefine the way you think about service.

JPW Serviced Sectors: • Manufacturing• Warehousing• Airline baggage handling• Sports venue gate ticketing• Route delivery•• Car rental• Lumbering• Security access control• Citation enforcement• Oil drilling

It’s time to redefine expectations andtransform the face of Industry - together.

A Fresh Start.

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for critical infrastructure upgrades, and hardly ever before as a tool to drive down energy costs. Energy performance contracting is, then an innovative way to proceed. “We are finding that many customers today want to do these upgrades but don’t have the technical know-how or the capital to do it,” says Stephen Ellich. “When we talk to them they are often really surprised at the savings they can make by taking a more holistic view of their critical infrastructure and the amount of energy that can be saved by making use of solar, gas micro-turbines or cogen/trigen plants and by putting in more energy efficient equipment like LED lighting. When these things are done at scale, by an organisation with the engineering expertise to make them all work together, for example in large shopping centre the savings are very significant.”

This is a very opportune time for UASG/AES, he declares with

conviction. Substantial reforms to the national electricity market are underway in 2017 following recommendations to the state and federal governments by the AEMC’s Power of Choice review which allows consumers to make informed choices about the way they use electricity. Ultimately, consumers will be in the best position to decide what works for them. “Ownership of the metering infrastructure changes. We will see a power shift from the distributor-led to a more retail-led business as the retailers become more hands-on with infrastructure rather than simply differentiating themselves on tariffs.” As one of the largest metering companies in Australia, UASG can partner these organisation in this industry transformation.

Coming together under Spotless enabled the UASG entities and later AES to move their back office systems onto the parent group’s

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CASE STUDY

Technology that has helped us save time and

run operations more efficiently

SAP infrastructure, and upgrade to its cloud-based systems, changing the business from a paper-based to a fully electronic operation. This was a painless enough migration thanks to Spotless’s top to bottom training – and it resulted, he says, in a better governed, more compliant and structured business.

Charting the way forwardMost of the work within the UASG

group is carried out using its own resources and personnel. Ellich likes it that way, because it makes for a close engagement with the customer both at grass roots and management level, so only around 30 percent of projects are reliant on subcontractors. The exception to that is Skilltech, the company that installs 100,000 meters a year and reads them more than 70 million times, using its own staff almost

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exclusively. The company has installed more than 880,000 smart meters in Victoria and carries out a large network metering contracts throughout Australia.

Metering is no longer a drudge for staff and customers alike, he stresses. His innovations and emerging markets team has created unique devices for saving and tracking water consumption called SmartPipe. With the backing of Spotless, UASG is developing a metering centric application called MIMTR, which is going to be able to provide all metering services from a single device under one system. “Our view of it is that it provides, uniquely, a contractor portal for field mobility and data acquisition. It provides a customer portal for the utility to get real time access to their data via an internet browser. Plus a consumer APP so if customers get an estimated reading, they can enter their own data and can put the right information direct into the utility’s system through our interface. Customers get frustrated when they receive estimated bills, but now they can enter their own data on a highly secure channel. From the utility’s point of view, sincethe

“We will see a power shift from the distributor-led to a more retail-led business as the retailers become more hands-on with infrastructure”– Stephen Ellich, CEO of UASG & AES

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L AT I N A M E R I C A

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• Thermal and acoustic insulation• Ducting – internal and external• Piping – hot, cold and acoustic• Tank, chillers and pressure vessels• Plantroom walls and ceilings• Fire rating of duct•• Sheet metal manufacture• Cladding of pipe duct and equipment• Ductboard manufacture

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APP can authenticate the information that the consumer uploads, the ability to defraud is vastly reduced.”

The business case for working with UASG is compelling, as energy costs rise and technology provides the means to limit these, however environmental awareness goes well beyond this thanks partly to Australia’s National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS) which measures and compares the environmental efficiency of premises. The company has its own NABERS assessors to help clients achieve the highest standards of compliance.

Company Information N A M E

UASG/AES (Spotless Group)

I N D U S T RY

Energy services

H E A D Q U A RT E R S

Head Office, 549 St Kilda

Road , Melbourne, Victoria,

Australia

F O U N D E D

2014

E M P L O Y E E S

2,500

W E B S I T E

www.uasg.com.au

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Head Office, 549 St Kilda Road

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3004 T

Tel. +61 3 9269 7600

[email protected] www.uasg.com.au