Municipal,
healthcare and
education.
Ageing plant, a reporting obligation that is public, and a procurement process that has to be defensible before it can be fast. The engineering is the straightforward part.
The report is
a public
document.
An institutional report gets read by a council, a board or a ministry, and sometimes by a journalist. Method, assumptions and uncertainty have to be on the page, because a number without them cannot be defended in public and will not be relied on. That is the same discipline we apply everywhere — it is simply not optional here.
Written to be scrutinised
Method and assumptions stated, savings given with the confidence interval beside them, and the model reproducible by someone who did not build it.
Deliverables procurement accepts
Condition assessments, tender documentation and bid review in the form a public procurement process can evaluate without a second consultant to interpret it.
Plant at the end of its life
Institutional portfolios carry the oldest equipment we see. Replacement planning and reserve analysis usually matter more than optimization.
No institutional
case study
yet.
We work in this sector, but nothing from it has been cleared for publication, and we would rather say that than relabel a commercial study. The closest published work is the whole building optimization and central plant engineering below — the same method, in buildings with the same plant.
Thirty minutes, with the engineer who would run the work.
No cost and no obligation. Bring twelve months of utility bills if you have them — that alone is usually enough to say whether a building has a capital problem or a controls problem.