1. Strategic Planning: working with clients to gain a portfolio wide approach to utility cost containment. Includes building job descriptions of corporate utility managers, designing preventative maintenance programs, and designing programs to monitor utility cost. Includes electric, gas and water utility applications.

    2. Staff Training Sessions (Each is two hours long)
    a) Water Conservation: Increasing NOI by Minimizing Costs and Maximizing Revenue.
    b) Self monitoring and diagnosis of primary water usage, to ensure assets realize minimized water/sewer usage and cost over time.
    c)     Diagnosing and repairing toilet leaks. Many maintenance personnel do not find obvious large leaks; how can they diagnose toilet leaks under 500 gallons per month?

    3. Water Rate and Usage Analysis. Determines relative health of primary water consumption and cost, compared to expectations for a property’s age and tenant occupancy profile. Also verifies accuracy of primary supplier’s rate application. Provided to all submetered assets at no extra charge, monthly.

    4. Portfolio Analysis, applying the above Analysis to an entire portfolio. Problems are found in approximately 15% of properties.
  
 
5. High dwelling unit usage analysis: focusing on the highest users at a submetered community, to determine if plumbing problems exist. Objective is to diagnose problems early, when they are less expensive to resolve, and before they outpace utility budgets or cause resident complaints. Provided to all submetered assets at no extra charge, monthly.

6. Field water audit: engineering study of an asset’s water usage characteristics. Typically follows a Rate and Usage Analysis, where problems were uncovered.

7. Emergency water usage problem analysis: for an asset with known critical high cost primary water problems. Provided to all submetered assets at no extra charge, as needed.

8. Water leak detection: when underground leaks are verified.

9. Conservation product supply/retrofit: to reduce primary usage and cost for an older asset. Follows the Rate and Usage Analysis.

10. Plumbing fixture tune up for assets greater than three years of age. Plumbing fixtures are like cars, they need periodic maintenance to keep efficient. (Often performed by client personnel)