Case study: 3Sixty Real Estate
3SIXTY Real Estate is an award-winning independent building and project consultancy, providing surveying, architectural, and property management services across the UK. Managing a wide client portfolio, the business needed to ensure energy procurement and waste management were both cost-effective and operationally efficient.
The Challenge
Handling a diverse client portfolio of energy contracts and waste management can be both time-consuming and expensive. 3SIXTY Real Estate wanted a smarter approach that would:
- Reduce costs across multiple properties on energy procurement and waste management.
- Streamline administration to align contracts and deal with client queries promptly.
- Leverage market expertise, they needed a trusted partner who could deliver strategic procurement while freeing up their own resources to focus on ongoing client management.
Our solution
3SIXTY Real Estate delegated procurement and account management of their clients’ energy services to Unyfi. We provided:
- Strategic procurement: Negotiated preferential rates by combining portfolio consumption, delivering better terms than individual energy and waste management contracts.
- Compliance support: We ensured all sites’ waste management is compliant with the new Simpler Recycling regulations whilst focusing on delivering cost savings across the portfolio.
- Alleviated administrative tasks: supporting 3SIXTY Real Estate with handling all supplier queries and administrative tasks, such as change of tenancies and billing queries for both waste management and energy procurement.
- Contract alignment: Secured concurrent end dates across the client portfolio, simplifying accounting and renewals.
- Market expertise: Navigated supplier challenges to ensure even offshore companies could access competitive and reliable energy contracts whilst ensuring
The results
- Significant cost savings across the client portfolio through consolidated energy procurement and waste management.
- Improved supplier terms and reliability for hard-to-place clients.
- Freed up 3SIXTY’s internal teams to focus on adding client value rather than managing utilities and client queries.
The next steps
By partnering with Unyfi, 3SIXTY Real Estate now has a streamlined, cost-effective procurement structure that benefits both the consultancy and its clients. We continue to support them with ongoing energy strategy and contract management.
