Site Management
A "site" in Dekko corresponds to a physical facility: office, warehouse, store, factory. Each site has its own characteristics that influence emission calculations.
What is a site?
A site represents a physical location where your company operates. During registration, Dekko automatically creates your "Main Site." You can then add more sites if your company has multiple facilities.
Multi-site company
If you have an office in Paris and a warehouse in Lyon, create two separate sites. Each will have its own heating, surface area, and consumption data. The assessment will automatically consolidate emissions from all your sites.
Site types
The site type helps Dekko pre-configure relevant emission sources:
- Office — Standard workspace. Main sources: electricity, heating, air conditioning.
- Warehouse — Goods storage. Sources: heating (if heated), lighting, handling equipment.
- Store / Retail — Point of sale. Sources: electricity (display lighting, registers), air conditioning, refrigeration.
- Factory / Workshop — Industrial production. Sources: process energy, heating, internal vehicles.
- Coworking — Shared space. You declare your share of occupied floor area.
- Remote work — Working from home. A flat-rate estimate is applied per remote employee.
Floor area and employee count
These two fields are essential for calculations:
- Floor area (m²) — The total area of the site in square meters. Used to estimate heating consumption if you don't have exact invoices.
- On-site employees — The number of people physically working at this site. May be less than total headcount if some employees work remotely.
Where to find the floor area?
Check your commercial lease, property tax notice, or ask your landlord. For a coworking space, use only the area of your assigned desks (e.g., 4 desks × 8 m² = 32 m²).
Heating type
The heating type determines the emission factor used and the relevant scope:
- Electric — Scope 2. Very low factor in France (0.052 kg CO2e/kWh) thanks to nuclear power.
- Natural gas — Scope 1. Factor: 0.227 kg CO2e/kWh NCV. Main emission source for many offices.
- Heating oil — Scope 1. High factor: 3.25 kg CO2e/liter. If you still have an oil boiler, it's probably your largest emission source.
- Heat pump — Scope 2 (electricity). Very efficient: uses 3 to 4 times less energy than conventional electric heating.
- District heating — Scope 2. Variable factor depending on the network (0.125 kg CO2e/kWh average in France).
EPC Rating (Energy Performance Certificate)
The EPC is the mandatory energy performance assessment for buildings in France. It rates your building from A (highly efficient) to G (energy sieve):
- A-B — Low-energy building. Low heating emissions.
- C-D — Average performance. The majority of recent offices.
- E-F — Poor performance. Insulation work could significantly reduce your emissions.
- G — Energy sieve. Absolute renovation priority to reduce your footprint.
Where to find your EPC?
Your EPC is included in your commercial lease or can be consulted on ADEME's EPC Observatory (observatoire-dpe.ademe.fr). This field is optional but enriches AI recommendations.
Managing multiple sites
For each additional site, go to Dashboard > Sites > Add a site. Fill in the same information (type, area, heating, employees). The assessment will automatically aggregate emissions from all your sites with a detailed breakdown per facility in the report.
Watch out for duplicates
Don't create a separate site for remote work if you've already declared remote employees on another site. This would double the emission estimates.