The Office of Public Works manages most of the Irish State's property — hundreds of government offices and police buildings. Their energy-conservation programme needed measurement it could trust and staff could rally behind. We built the metering system that delivered both.
The Office of Public Works (OPW), a major Irish Government agency, manages most of the State's property portfolio — hundreds of owned and rented government offices and police properties. Its energy-conservation campaign, Optimising Power @ Work (OP@W), was launched to the wider public sector in 2014 to drive behavioural change. To maximise its effectiveness, OPW needed a custom energy-management and measurement-and-verification solution that fit their procurement tender. Full Stack Energy delivered a bespoke revenue-grade metering system and gateway, plus a browser-based app, giving public-sector teams the data to champion and verify their energy reductions.
Optimising Power @ Work is an energy-conservation campaign built on behavioural change — encouraging public-sector staff to use energy more carefully. A campaign like that lives or dies on evidence: people change behaviour when they can see the difference they’re making, and managers can only champion progress they can actually measure.
OPW manages a vast, varied estate — hundreds of government offices and police properties — so the measurement had to be consistent across very different buildings. And as a public body, it had to fit a formal procurement tender, with all the rigour that implies.
OPW needed a custom solution for their bespoke energy-data-management needs: metering that would let public-sector teams champion their achievements and promote their progress through internal awareness tools — not just a dashboard, but the engine of a national behavioural campaign.
We started by framing the domain problem and objectives with OPW’s stakeholders, then built hardware for fast facility assessment and a browser app that turned readings into something staff could act on.
A conservation campaign is really a measurement campaign. People change what they can see — so the meter isn't the back office, it's the front line.
Lead Engineer, Full Stack Energy
The Optimising Power @ Work scheme delivered average annual savings of 25% across 300 participating central-government facilities over five years — making it the largest and most successful campaign of its kind in Ireland. The metering gave teams the data-driven metrics they used to engage office staff in managerial and behavioural change.
On the back of that success, OPW expanded the programme to the largest office in each local authority, supporting the drive towards NEEAP 2020 targets. As an Irish company — with parent ResourceKraft well known to Local Authority Energy Managers — Full Stack Energy then scaled the system up for local-authority bodies beyond their main offices, providing the equipment and support to measure and manage major energy consumers such as leisure centres, large buildings and plant across each city or county.
The thing people miss about OP@W is that the engineering served a behavioural goal, not the other way round. The cleverest meter in the world is useless if a facilities manager can’t turn its readings into a story that makes staff switch things off. We built for that — fast assessment, a clear app, progress you can point at.
Being an Irish company mattered here in a way it doesn’t always. ResourceKraft was already known to Local Authority Energy Managers, so scaling the programme out wasn’t a cold sell — it was extending something the sector already trusted to leisure centres, depots and the bigger consumers beyond head office.
OP@W is the Office of Public Works' energy-conservation campaign built on behavioural change across the Irish State's property estate. Powered by this bespoke metering, it delivered average annual savings of 25% across 300 participating central-government facilities over five years — the largest and most successful campaign of its kind in Ireland.
Because a conservation campaign is really a measurement campaign — people change what they can see, and managers can only champion progress they can measure. A bespoke revenue-grade meter and gateway feed a browser app that turns readings into the data-driven metrics teams use to engage staff and verify their reductions.
Yes. After OP@W's success, OPW extended it to the largest office in each local authority, and Full Stack Energy scaled it further for local-authority bodies — measuring and managing major consumers such as leisure centres, large buildings and plant across each city or county.
Behavioural campaigns need measurement people believe in. We build the metering that makes savings provable — and championable. Let's talk.