Austep is a Queensland based B Corp Social Enterprise with a national footprint, access to grants and funding, and a strong focus on quality and expertise. We help organisations increase profitability and sustainability, through comprehensive energy efficiency upgrades in commercial buildings. This includes LED lighting, hot water, and HVAC controls. Austep also donates 50% of profits to charity.
Despite rising power bills, and climate change, 84% of energy in commercial buildings is wasted due to lack of time, and everyday contractors lack of energy efficiency expertise. This increases emissions, reduces business productivity, and reduces business profitability.
Referred to as ‘the first fuel’, Energy Efficiency is the cheapest and fastest way to reach net zero and reduce energy costs - by reducing energy waste.
As well as making businesses more profitable, energy efficiency also has many other benefits – such as improving safety and aesthetics through better lighting, and improving comfort and wellbeing through better heating and cooling.
People don’t always notice lighting or air conditioning, but they do notice how it makes a place feel. Energy Efficiency impacts employee satisfaction and guest experience.
Lifecycle thinking to improve your long-term ROI
Years of experience to save you time and reduce risk
Access to Government grants and funding
Multi-discipline expertise to increase energy savings
Quality solutions to improve guest experience and employee wellbeing
Working with a social enterprise doubles your impact
While the world faces serious challenges ranging from poverty to climate change, business can be a powerful tool to help. Despite the enormity of environmental and social issues, humans have repeatedly achieved the "impossible" before; just imagine telling someone 300 years ago about electric light. Solutions won't just happen though, we have to get to work.
Founded in 2015, Austep is a B Corp certified Social Enterprise using business as a tool to positively impact people, profit, places and planet. We design and install energy efficiency upgrades in commercial buildings, to reduce energy costs and carbon emissions, while donating 50% of profits to charity.
As an experienced Energy Services Company (ESCO), Austep is a specialist energy efficiency consultant and turnkey project manager, helping organisations improve their positive impact and increase profitability.
Our friendly and trusted team includes a licensed builder, architect, lighting designers, and mechanical engineers, with accreditations in carbon, energy, sustainability, refrigeration, project management, energy auditing, energy management, NABERS, and more - enabling us to audit, design and lead comprehensive Integrated Commercial Building EnergyRetrofits (IBERs).
Built on a foundation of partnerships, positive impact, and expertise, we reduce the lifecycle costs of energy use in buildings, while improving light quality, thermal comfort, and occupant wellbeing.
If you are an executive with financial targets, a site manager who makes the place run, or a sustainability manager with a net zero target, we know you are busy. We make it easy, and profitable, for you to reduce emissions, reduce your energy bills, and increase your positive impact.
A pragmatic idealist who grew up around leaders in the field of energy efficiency, Asher is an LED enthusiast and social entrepreneur, passionate about energy efficiency and carbon reduction. Asher also co-founded a charity who divested $30m from fossil fuels.
An MEP super star experienced in design, engineering, installation, and maintenance spanning electrical, HVAC, BMS, solar, factory safety rectifications, multi-milllion dollar luxury hotel construction, thermal storage, and facilities management.
A super human lighting engineer and interior designer with experience ranging from the Sydney Cricket Ground and Star Casino, to Government street lighting and the Tokyo Aquatic Centre, Ashwin is an MIES (the world's highest level of lighting designer).
An energy efficiency guru who built multiple energy companies, held senior roles in AGL and Lendlease, advised Government, and co-founded the Energy Efficiency Council, David has the expertise to lead comprehensive, integrated building retrofits.
With the magic power to design a building that doesn't need heating or cooling, and a Fellowship from the Australian Institute of Architects, Mahalath is an award winning carbon, energy, and NABERS assessor, specialising in Sustainable Architecture.
With over a decade in finance, as well as experience running her own business, Fairlyne is a certified Accountant that understands the economics of how businesses work and how to optimise their profitability, as well as their carbon accounting.
With a diverse academic background spanning biology, science, medicine, and architecture, Joanna is an operations professional skilled in people management and business administration.
John has extensive experience as a university instructor in mechanical engineering, specialising in energy efficiency and sustainability. He is pursuing a master's degree in mechanical engineering and has joined Austep to apply his knowledge in advanced energy solutions across various industries.
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