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Project-based management requires a longer-term view of your portfolio to determine the best approach to maintaining and enhancing your facilities.

Ameresco has responded to this need by creating Asset Planning Solutions™, a Facility Asset-Planning and Optimization program driven by a proven life-cycle management approach. This program creates a clear road map for future risk management by providing customers in the public and commercial sectors with essential information they need to make critical strategic decisions, helping organizations reduce operating costs and enhance facility conditions. As a result, organizations are better able to respond to new demands and funding requirements, employ newer technologies, implement environmentally-friendly solutions, and adapt to continuous changes in the marketplace.

An asset-planning and optimization program for a given building portfolio consists of three distinct elements:

Needs Analysis

The needs analysis identifies the current and future renewal and asset-management needs of the organization, and prioritizes capital-investment requirements.

Outcomes from this process include:

• A decision support framework
• Capital renewal and life cycle projection for each individual building
• Unfunded liability analysis along with various facility condition indices
• Measures and dashboards used to measure and manage the portfolio of assets

Strategies Solution Development

During the strategies solution development process, Ameresco devises financial strategies by leveraging facility-related savings opportunities and optimizing budgeted capital dollars. The total investment capital may include government and utility incentives. We outline a dynamic business plan utilizing the industry’s best practices and clearly-defined communications and reporting processes.

Phased Implementation

Construction and other measures are implemented in accordance with proactive project and construction management processes, taking into account the organization’s priorities. Ameresco ensures the asset-planning and optimization program is continuously updated through a stringent results-monitoring program.

Ameresco’s facility asset-planning and optimization program helps organizations reduce operating costs and enhance facility conditions, creating a clear road map for future risk management. As a result, organizations are better able to respond to new demands, deploy newer technologies, implement environmentally- friendly solutions and adapt to continuous changes in the marketplace.