Month: July 2015

Your facilities use energy — sometimes not in the most efficient manner. In fact, energy is a major factor in the cost of doing business.

And your facilities require money to manage them.

An asset and facility optimization program makes all of this work more predictably and cost-effectively. It breaks you out of the break-fix cycle and optimizes your entire system for the long-term.

When you optimize your facility operations, your organization can realize:

• Energy efficiency
• Reduced energy bills
• Reduced maintenance costs
• Better synergy between systems
• Real-time monitoring of equipment
• Data reporting that enables better decision making

An effective facility and asset optimization program assesses and fixes the root cause of immediate problems while also addressing energy waste. It produces immediate benefits and also sets you up for more predictable operations cost management. It creates better systems for monitoring equipment, as well as collecting and reporting the data.

It gives you immediate and future building intelligence – providing real-time data for on-the-fly decision-making while also giving you the data you need to anticipate future facilities needs.

It’s a more comprehensive and forward-thinking approach to maximizing building performance and cutting energy consumption.

Why Predictability Matters

A predictable energy, capital and facilities budget reduces budget spikes. You know – the ones that blow your entire budget on emergency maintenance without even the promise that it won’t happen again in a few years.

A predictable budget is not only easier for you and your organization to manage, it helps with your long-term planning and enables you to more easily invest in capital projects. It enables you to create more intelligent energy budgets and forecasts.

Other Benefits of Asset and Facility Optimization

An effective optimization program creates better cooperation and collaboration between executive teams, facilities teams and vendors.

It provides transparency so organizations can make better decisions, even in real time.

It reduces deferred maintenance and lowers energy expenses.

Finally, it helps executives deal with mounting pressures and prove ROI to stakeholders through tracking and validation of savings.

Break Tradition, Be a Hero

Hiring a performance contractor every few years to do a condition assessment or energy audit is fine. It’s the traditional route and the results are predictable.

But an asset and facility optimization program can offer you that PLUS increased ROI and more long-term value.

The end result? You look like a hero to the executive team.

Your facilities energy consumption impacts your bottom line, sure — but management of your facilities is not just a matter of dollars and cents. Cost of ownership is only one of the things you’re worried about.

Facilities management impacts:

• Equipment performance
• Your ability to make data-based decisions
• Program and regulation compliance
• The comfort of everyone who uses the facilities – from staff to customers and students

Considering the huge impact your facilities operations have on your organization, would you rather fix things as they break or have a plan to maintain and upgrade systems throughout their lifecycles?

There is a difference between a solution and a fix.

A solution addresses immediate needs, then considers how to anticipate and manage future needs as well. A solution is specifically designed to address the broader requirements of an organization or business.

A fix solves a specific, present problem. It doesn’t consider root cause or how the problem impacts other systems, nor does it consider how to prevent that problem from occurring again in the future.

Do You Need a One-Time Fix, or Do You Really Need a Long-Term Solution?

You might not think your temperature control system is life-and-death – but you’d be wrong.

A broken temperature control system was nearly the cause of a huge fine for one local hospital. The joint commission discovered that there were issues with temperature control in surgery rooms, and the hospital was on the verge of receiving a huge fine. We discovered the root cause of the problem and fixed it in time to avoid the costly fine, but it was a wake-up call for this hospital. It caused them to address their overall facilities management program to avoid these surprises in the future.

You don’t have to let that kind of crisis happen in the first place.

When you hire a performance contractor, they will fix your immediate problems. They’ll also:

• Save you money on your energy costs
• Perform industrial-grade audits
• Solve short-term facilities operations issues

That all sounds great. But what happens when things break in the future? There’s no plan for that and no preventative measures taken.

An asset and facility optimization program is actually what you need to reduce surprises and plan for the long term. This program goes further than fixing immediate problems. This program approach is a true solution.

Here’s how we do this for our clients at Performance Solutions:

• We improve your overall operation for the long term
• We educate your staff to help them understand how to reduce energy usage and spot optimization opportunities
• After taking the time to understand your business needs, we provide a strategic energy and maintenance program that works with your budget
• We build a financial model and funding mechanism
• We perform necessary repairs, recommissions and retuning of your equipment and systems
• We identify the root causes of problems, then create and implement an plan for reducing future issues
• We provide facility management technologies that make it easy to pull reports and view equipment data in real-time

Ultimately, this asset and facility optimization program creates predictability and transparency. This not only impacts your bottom line, it makes it easier for your organization to make better decisions.

The Solution is a SOLUTION

So what do you need? A fix or a solution?

If you are constantly surprised by energy management expenditures or unexpected facility operations costs, it’s time to get out of the break-fix cycle. Consider a facilities management solution so you can plan your expenditures and make better, data-based decisions now and in the future.