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Spear REIT portfolio · EPCs held continuously, across the Western Cape

Spear's qualifying office buildings carry first-round certificates that come up for renewal from 2027. This is what holding them looks like when the certificate is generated and registered automatically from metering data — held continuously, re-rated every month, water rated concurrently — so the next renewal never becomes a project. Shown here for all 43 properties on Spear's published portfolio — offices, retail, industrial and mixed-use from the Cape Town CBD to George; certificates, bands and dates are illustrative until Spear's own are connected.

All properties · 43Offices · G1RetailIndustrialMixed-use● Renewing in the Q1 2027 window
Compliance EPCs
19of 43
qualifying offices certified · retail, industrial and sub-threshold offices benchmarked voluntarily
Renewals due early 2027
9
expire Dec 2026 – Mar 2027 · all data-ready
Portfolio energy rating
D 168kWh/m²/yr
GLA-weighted across 630,000 m² · industrial-heavy book
Portfolio water rating
C 1.9ℓ/m²/day
rated concurrently from the same data
Renewal readiness
42of 43
buildings with 12 months of metering behind the certificate

Buildings

From spearprop.co.za · select a property to open its certificate · gold pill = renewal due Q1 2027

Energy rating distribution

Buildings by EPC band · current certificates vs the data-rated position today
Certificate on file (2022)Rated from data today

What changes at renewal

The same SANS 1544 certificate — produced a different way
 
Assessor renewal · every 5 years
Held continuously
Data
12 months of bills gathered per building
Metering connected read-only, once
Site work
Site visit, floor-area survey, report
Scan photo audit only where a building needs it
Registration
Manual submission per certificate
Generated & registered automatically (SANEDI)
Between renewals
Nothing — the number ages for 5 years
Re-rated monthly, water concurrently, alerts routed
Next expiry
Diary entry, go to market again
Renewed ahead of expiry from data already flowing

Compliance EPCs for qualifying buildings (offices, places of public assembly and instruction above the size thresholds); clearly labelled voluntary EPC-principle benchmarks for the rest — one pipeline, one scale.

Energy intensity · 12 months

kWh/m²/month against the certificate baseline — the certificate is re-rated from this line every month
Monthly kWh/m²Certificate baseline

Meter IQ · what the certificate data also found

Anomalies routed to the responsible person with a rand value — the by-product of holding the EPC from live data
Energy Performance Certificate AUTO-GENERATED
D
ENERGY
C
WATER
A–G scale for the building's occupancy class · water rated concurrently from the same data

How the certificate is produced

No manual assessment cycle
Metering API→kWh/m² · ℓ/m²→Energy + water rating→EPC generated & registered

Floor areas and occupancy class from the existing certificate; anything that has changed is confirmed with a Scan photo walk, not a full re-assessment.

Renewal status

EPC renewals · the whole book, ahead of expiry

Every compliance certificate across Spear's published portfolio, with its expiry and its data-rated position today. Certificates are valid for five years; the ones issued in the 2022 compliance push come due from early 2027. With metering connected now, each renewal is issued from data already flowing — no site campaign, no rush in the quarter they expire, and no five-year cliff after that.

Certificates
24
qualifying offices · 24 further properties on voluntary benchmarks
Expiring Q1 2027
9
Dec 2026 – Mar 2027 · the first renewal window
Expiring rest of 2027
11
follow in the same pipeline
Voluntary benchmarks
24
industrial, retail and sub-threshold offices · same scale, clearly labelled
Bands moving up at renewal
6
where today's data rates better than the certificate on file

Renewal timeline

Certificates expiring per month, Oct 2026 – Sep 2027 · gold = the first window

Connect metering in Q4 2026 and every Q1 renewal is issued from twelve months of real data before the old certificate lapses.

The renewal, as a service

What "held continuously" means in practice
01
Metering connected read-onlyExisting utility, landlord or tenant-billing meters · nothing replaced
Q4 2026
02
Floor areas & classes confirmed from the certificates on fileScan photo walk only where the building changed
Q4 2026
03
Renewal certificates generated & registeredAhead of each expiry · display copy issued for the entrance
Q1 2027 →
04
Held continuouslyRe-rated monthly · water concurrent · next renewal is automatic
ongoing

Held continuously · one price per building

Per building per month · the renewal is included, and so is everything the data brings with it
R 1,000 per building per month · five metering points included
  • Renewal certificate issued ahead of expiry, registered, display copy for the entrance — included
  • Live energy and water rating every month; the next renewal is automatic, for as long as the building is on the platform
  • Voluntary benchmarks on the same scale for industrial, retail and sub-threshold offices
  • Meter IQ cases routed to the responsible person with a rand value
  • Portfolio view for asset managers and the integrated-report line
  • Additional metering points R 50 per point per month
What the book costs
19 qualifying officesR 19,000 / month · every compliance certificate held and renewedAll 43 propertiesR 43,000 / month · the whole portfolio on one scaleMeteringExisting meters connected read-only at R 0; where a meter is supplied, R 4,000 + R 2,000 installation per pointPerformance feeNone — savings stay 100% with Spear and its tenants

Indicative, excluding VAT. No once-off certificate fee: the certificate is a by-product of holding the building continuously.

All certificates

Select a row to open the building · sorted by expiry
BuildingClassGLAOn fileRated todayIssuedExpiresStatus

Properties and GLA from spearprop.co.za; bands and dates are illustrative until Spear's certificates and metering are connected. Occupancy classes per SANS 10400-A; compliance EPCs apply to qualifying buildings above the regulated size thresholds, voluntary benchmarks elsewhere.

Start with the EPCs. The rest switches on when Spear wants it.

The renewal is the entry point — and the same connected data is the first rung of a ladder Spear can climb building by building, tenant by tenant. Nothing here is required for the renewals; every rung uses the metering already connected for the certificate.

1
Benchmark & EPC

Continuous energy and water rating per building; compliance EPCs generated and registered automatically, held for five years and renewed from data.

This proposal
2
Meter IQ

Anomalies from the same meters — after-hours HVAC, night-flow, baseload steps — routed to the responsible person with a rand value, closed with the saving quantified.

Switch on per building
3
Scan

Photo-verified asset register on a phone: chillers, geysers, lighting, pumps — the capital project list with cost, saving and band uplift for each building.

Where a building changed
4
Green Seeds

Tenant and building-team engagement on WhatsApp — monthly scorecards, an inter-building challenge, rewards Spear designs and funds.

Tenant programme
5
Synchronised Control

Occupancy-led pre-conditioning of HVAC and hot water on tariff, solar and demand signals — read-only until Spear mandates control.

Later

What Spear gets from rung one alone

The renewal, done properly
  • Every certificate renewed ahead of expiry, registered, display copy issued
  • One live rating per building, energy and water, every month
  • A portfolio view for asset managers and the integrated-report and sustainability disclosures of a listed REIT
  • Tenant-facing evidence: the number on the wall is this year's, not 2021's
  • No site campaign, no report chasing, no five-year cliff

The rules we keep

Written once, so nobody has to ask
  • Existing metering connected read-only; nothing replaced
  • Compliance EPCs only for qualifying buildings; voluntary benchmarks clearly labelled elsewhere
  • All savings stay 100% with Spear and its tenants — GreenX never takes a share
  • POPIA-aligned, South African hosting, Spear as data controller
  • Certificates and data remain Spear's, whatever happens later

Next step

Before the first renewals fall due

Send the list of certificates on file with their expiry dates and the metering in each building. We map every property to its meters, mark which renew in the first window, and come back with a connection plan — one price per building, nothing once-off.

Spear Energy & Water Platform · concept demo built for Spear REIT Limited by GreenX Engineering · not a Spear system · all figures illustrative until certificates and metering data are connected · properties from spearprop.co.za
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