Sigfox-owner UnaBiz is helping the StorHub self-storage group achieve Leed v4.1 operation and maintenance certification for its facilities in Singapore.

StorHub has achieved certification in Arc Skoru (arcskoru.com) and is on track to achieve Leed v4.1 certification for the largest collection of self-storage facilities in Singapore.

StorHub partnered with GreenA Consultants and UnaBiz to achieve the certification, marking the beginning of StorHub’s journey to green certify the company’s portfolio of properties throughout the region, including Australia, China, Japan, Korea and Malaysia.

Leed certification is a globally recognised symbol of sustainability achievement.

GreenA Consultants (www.greenaconsultants.com) is a green building consultant that looks at multiple strategies to reduce energy and suggests digital-led smart enabling options to push energy optimisation. This should enable a smart integrated facilities management operation across the global portfolio.

Apart from energy emissions, water, waste and indoor air quality are targeted for improvement in all the developments. Smart monitoring is critical in understanding improvements needed in the future and to reduce emissions. Other sustainability initiatives include a roof garden and hydroponics.

By leveraging on UnaBiz’s expertise in digitalisation and IoT, the company created a connected ecosystem that collects precise electrical and water consumption data and indoor air-quality metrics via Milesight’s LoRaWan-certified nine-in-one indoor air quality sensors in all StorHub’s 18 properties in Singapore.

With support from GreenA Consultants, StorHub met the certification requirements for Arc Skoru in line with Leed certification by implementing various sustainable practices, thus aligning StorHub’s progression to become the largest Leed-certified portfolio of self-storage buildings in Singapore, and the first to integrate multiple sites with the Arc Skoru performance platform, a sustainability reporting tool to measure the Leed impact of StorHub’s sustainability efforts.

Through a wireless retrofit, the project was completed in two phases, with quick installation turnaround time and no costly infrastructure overhaul. The utility consumption data and environmental data required for Leed certification was then seamlessly fed into a sustainability reporting tool.

StorHub actively aligns with Singapore’s commitment to environmental sustainability. To support the Singapore Green Plan 2030, StorHub has secured a SG$180m sustainability-linked loan from CIMB and UOB.

“At StorHub, we believe in the power of collaboration and innovation to drive measurable sustainability goals,” said Mike Hagbeck, group CEO of StorHub. “We are committed to integrating ESG principles across our facilities in the Asia Pacific. Working with GreenA Consultants and UnaBiz enables us to structure the sustainability efforts and collect reliable and accurate data for compliance with reporting standards like Leed to facilitate audits and certifications, and to create self-storage facilities that add value to our customers, investors, partners, communities, and a greener environment.”

Farizan d’Avezac de Moran, senior partner at GreenA Consultants, added: “StorHub’s leadership commitment to sustainability and innovative practices has enabled us to push forward with the implementation across multiple assets in the most cost effective and efficient manner. Being the largest self-storage asset owner, StorHub has shown all-round commitment to sustainability beyond energy and has included strong social and governance action. Together, we are making beneficial positive environmental and economic impact in the self-storage industry.”

And Jonathan Tan, managing director of UnaBiz in Singapore, said: “We are proud to be part of this milestone project, which showcases the possibilities of digitalisation and IoT technologies in driving sustainability. GreenA’s expertise in implementation of sustainable practices for net-zero and net-positive energy buildings, coupled with UnaBiz’s end-to-end IoT, helps StorHub collect fit-for-purpose data, which can be benchmarked for sustainability reporting and green certifications.”

Founded in Singapore in 2003, StorHub (www.storhub.com.sg) owns and manages more than 70,000 storage units across Australia, China, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Korea.

Singapore based GreenA Consultants, was founded in 2009 with the mission of syncing environmental engineering and corporate sustainability targets in achieving decarbonation goals. Its portfolio of projects spans across Asia and Africa.

UnaBiz (www.unabiz.com) is a massive IoT service provider that specialises in design, manufacturing, connectivity and data platform services across a hybrid of low-power wide-area (LPWA) technologies such as Sigfox 0G, LTE-M, NB-IoT and LoRaWan. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in Singapore, with R&D centres in Taipei and France, and sales offices in Tokyo, Paris, Madrid and the Netherlands.