Auditing a 4-story medical office building where each floor has different tenants but they share two main electric meters. The building owner pays the bill and charges tenants based on square footage, but I think the allocation is wrong. Radiology on the 2nd floor has huge equipment loads compared to the family practice offices. How do you handle this situation?
Medical office building shared meters
You need to get submetering data if it exists, or at least equipment schedules for each tenant. Radiology, imaging, lab work - those all have much higher energy intensity than regular office space. Square footage allocation is definitely unfair.
That's what I figured Susan. The radiology group has MRI, CT scan, and X-ray equipment that probably uses 3x more power per square foot. Building owner needs to either submeter or use a more sophisticated allocation method.
We see this all the time in medical buildings. Most leases have language about "proportionate share" but don't define it clearly. You might be able to get the building owner to install submeters and true-up past allocations. Depends on the lease terms.