Water Conservation Services

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 are not trained on how to diagnose toilet leaks.  Let us conduct an audit for you.

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.

 

Monitoring Water Usage and Cost

Those who keep water usage and cost at minimal levels routinely monitor usage by analyzing municipal supplier bills, routinely take independent reads of the municipal supplier's primary meter(s) and analyze current water consumption. When billed or current usage is higher than expected, action takes place to verify and solve the problem. Taking your own independent reads of the supplier primary meter provides key benefits:

1. Minimizes lag time between a major leak occurring, and you finding out. If you rely on the municipal supplier's bill for all your analysis, it may be 60 to 90 days between the start of a major problem, and their bill getting into your hands. Thats 60 to 90 days of high cost you will be paying out. Eliminate this by taking weekly reads of your primaries!

2. Allows you to verify the supplier's bill as accurate. Compare your independent meter reads with the reads on the supplier bills: do they make sense? When a primary bill spikes up, it's not always because of a water leak. Most of the time, it is due to a meter read or data entry error.

While this may seem like a lot of work, it actually takes very little to operate a monitoring program once it is set up. Set up is easy! Property managers and maintenance personnel have the ability to quote their average and current usage numbers if requested. Let us take a look at your primary water usage, and the gallons per day (gpd) benchmark. Benchmarking your usage is the first step, let's get going!

What you will need:
Basic property data: address, number of units, approximate year of construction, latest primary supplier bill(s), with the meter reads available Independent reads of the primary meter(s), if possible, occupancy over the same time period.