When a council, school or hotel calls Eco-MS, it’s rarely just about a broken chiller.
Shaun, general manager of Eco-MS, is usually standing in a plant room within days – fluorescent lights humming, pumps rumbling, BMS alarms quietly flashing in the background. On paper, the brief is simple: improve comfort, cut costs, and hit net zero targets. In reality, the building is a maze of legacy plant, patchy commissioning and competing priorities.
“Most people I meet already know what they want,” Shaun says. “Electrification, better life-cycle planning, proper ESG reporting, net zero ready. What they don’t always know is where to start.”
That’s where Eco-MS leans in.
The first step is always the same: understand the building – where the bottlenecks are and which assets are quietly burning cash and carbon in the background. Then comes the honest bit – putting real numbers against real options.
“When you see the full cost of doing everything at once, it can be intimidating,” Shaun admits. “So we break it into a staged roadmap – usually over about five years – that the client can actually live with.”
For councils in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, private schools and hotel groups like Hyatt and Hilton, that roadmap might start with the worst-performing plant, then roll through major upgrades, controls optimisation and electrification in line with budgets and downtime windows. Along the way, Eco-MS chases funding, grants and rebates to soften the blow.
Hotels are often the toughest and most rewarding. “They run 24/7,” Shaun says. “Guests expect comfort, and the systems behind the scenes are often old or badly set up. We unpack how it’s really running, then tune plant, controls and maintenance so comfort, cost and emissions finally line up.”
What keeps Shaun in the game isn’t just the engineering. It’s the relationships.
“We don’t treat people like job numbers,” he says. “We show you the problem, give you a plan, and stay with you while we deliver it. Every building’s different, but if you’re honest about where you are and clear about where you’re going, net zero is achievable.”
