Month: October 2015

If you’ve had an energy audit or typical condition assessment, you’re likely to create energy savings. But without the right partner, you may miss critical repairs and not identify underlying deferred maintenance.

With Performance Solutions, we’ll provide a fix that covers maintenance and energy needs, works within budget and provides future savings through building optimization.

Here’s the approach that has recently saved a healthcare client 15% of their annual budget.

New Equipment Isn’t Always The Answer

At Performance Solutions, our expert team  does more than a walkthrough of your facility. We take the time to review your assets and analyze all the factors that go into facility management – utility records, work orders, HVAC equipment, controls, air and water flow, geography of your building, and historical weather data.

By truly understanding your facility before we start planning what needs to be replaced or repaired, we can focus on low cost / no cost ways to optimize your facility. Oftentimes we discover that systems are in good condition, but they are being overworked and not functioning within the original design intent.

By creating a building optimization plan, like the one we created for St. Catherine’s Hospital, we can reduce stress on units and plan for maintenance, resulting in substantial savings.

St. Catherine’s Hospital

The administration at St. Catherine’s Hospital was worried they would have to spend top dollar to replace equipment in order to address patient discomfort from unpredictable temperature control and humidity issues in critical care areas.

By truly understanding their facility and gathering detailed operating data, our team was able to address these issues, not by replacing equipment, but repairing and improving the operations of their existing assets, so the equipment was no longer running excessively.

In the end we were able to provide St. Catherine’s Hospital with consistent temperature and humidity levels in surgery and ICU, while producing over $180,000 in annual savings.

A Partner Throughout The Process

At Performance Solutions, our expert team will not only fix it right the first time, we will stay with you through the duration of the program to ensure your capital budget plan works for you and that your team reaches their energy savings goals.

If you want your facility to run smooth for years to come and alleviate the stress of planning your capital budget then you need a partner with the experience to uncover the real problem and the passion to reach goals.

If you’re ready for a partner committed to improving the way your facilities operates contact Performance Solutions today!

It’s time to rethink your facility management strategy and abandon the status quo. The engineering days of Duct Tape and WD40 have passed, and the trend of only looking at lighting savings is nearing its end.

Discover the three strategies that Performance Solutions recommends to companies preparing their facilities for the future.

Strategy #1:  Make Data Your Friend

Benchmark your facilities against themselves. We recommend that our clients check the past few years of their utility bills and look for anything that stands out.

By looking at utility bills, the State of Missouri noticed one prison with astronomical natural gas costs. The culprit: a steam leak. This steam leak was not causing any harm, but was wasting resources. What costed the state 300k upfront to fix, resulted in 400k in annual savings.

You might not uncover savings this large at your facility, but without collecting and examining the data, how do you really know?

Strategy #2:  Harness the Power of Technology

The advent of advanced building technologies enable building owners and managers to see significantly more data than in the past. Most facilities have controls that pull information from multiple points but who reviews the data?

Implementing a Building Intelligence Program, allows you to monitor your facility in real time. Seeing real-time interval energy data overlaid on BAS operating data not only helps you understand how your facility is performing, but also enables you to make informed short and long term decisions to get the most out of every dollar spent.

Strategy #3:  Use a Holistic Approach

Asset management is crucial, dollars aren’t always everything. You simply can’t optimize your facility management if you haven’t determined the assets you own, their current condition and impact on the rest of your building systems. Without this valuable information, you could be putting yourself in a risky situation.

After a tragic incident in one facility, a building owner decided to do a full audit of their asset database. In reviewing their assets they discovered only 19 of their 21 buildings had sprinkler systems. By reviewing their facilities and all their assets they were able to take preventative measures to avoid another tragedy.

To learn about other building owners experiences, check out our case studies and read about the organizations that partnered with us to build a data-driven building optimization plan.

Your facility deserves more than a part time fix and your budget deserves cost efficiency.

At Performance Solutions, we will create and implement a customized solution that’s supported by data and offers maximized savings through a reduction in energy consumption and future maintenance costs.

Understanding Your Facility

Every program begins with an in-depth look at your buildings’ systems. We use advanced tools to put real-time data from your systems and conduct a gap analysis to determine the best way to optimize your facility. Rather than replacing expensive equipment with an “in-and-out” mentality, we uncover the root cause of why your equipment is failing in the first place and discover ways to increase savings.

With Help From Our Team

Data doesn’t lie but it doesn’t always uncover everything. It’s also not just about gathering data, but what you do with it. Our expert team has helped improve efficiency and reduce maintenance costs by truly understanding your facility and knowing where problems hide. Our team doesn’t work with vendors to sell the latest and most expensive equipment. We work for you to develop and implement a realistic program.

For Your Unique Solution

Let us help you optimize your assets and facilities for the long-term. We have developed solutions for previous clients and would love to create a specific solution for your facility. It is easy to start saving.

Your Solution Awaits!  Contact us