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Energy and carbon review brief

A tiered intervention brief with payback bands for your buildings.

When to use

Yearly, especially as energy costs move.

Prompt template

Produce an energy and carbon review brief for our building portfolio. Buildings: {BUILDINGS}. Current annual energy spend: {SPEND}. Cover: quick wins (behavioural, no cost), low-cost interventions (<£5k), capital investments (>£5k), likely payback periods, grant funding archetypes to explore. Do NOT invent specific grant names. Flag which interventions likely need a specialist survey.

Replace each highlighted placeholder with real context. Keep names and safeguarding details out.

When to use this prompt

Reach for this prompt when you need to a tiered intervention brief with payback bands for your buildings. It's designed for Facilities manager, Sustainability lead. Typically used within Facilities work.

Draft with AI, then have a colleague verify facts and tone before use.

How to use it
  1. 1

    Gather your inputs

    Have your local context, audience and goal to hand.
  2. 2

    Fill in the highlighted placeholders

    Copy the template above and replace every highlighted placeholder with real, local context.
  3. 3

    Run it in your AI tool

    Paste into your preferred AI assistant. Ask a follow-up if the output misses your association's tone.
  4. 4

    Work through the checklist

    Tick every item before you send, publish or act on the output.
Why this prompt works

Focuses sustainability work on interventions with real payback and defensible reasoning.

Worked example
Buildings: main centre 1950s, community hall 1990s\nSpend: £68k/year
What good output looks like

A tiered intervention brief with payback bands and specialist flags.

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