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Working in Partnership to Enhance the 'Quality of Resident Life™'

For decades, social housing has been coping with limited capital funding, increasing deferred maintenance costs, escalating operating costs along with issues surrounding an aging infrastructure. But now with the influx in government stimulus dollars you are able to breathe new life into aging infrastructure and bring necessary improvements to your buildings, creating a better quality of life for residents, their families and the community as a whole.

Ameresco is pleased to partner with you as you gear up for implementation using stimulus dollars and other sources of funding. Our 35 years in facility renewal services and our in-depth knowledge and expertise in the social housing sector will enable us to prepare you for the funding and get you to implementation quickly, creating change, together.

Our approach is simple!

Ameresco has developed and effectively delivered a three-step program to help you with your planning needs (prioritization and reporting), help you with leveraging capital through energy conservation, and help you with delivery of your construction and retrofit programs. The ultimate goal is to help you deliver cost effective programs that enhance the 'Quality of Resident Life™.'

Step One: Needs Analysis

Working with your team, Ameresco quickly produces a prioritized capital plan, incorporating key costs associated with improving energy conservation, identifying health and safety and accessibility issues, and other capital costs.

Key benefits include:

• Optimizing your funding requests (stimulus and other)
• Providing on-going (dynamic) management of capital data
• Data update process (ensuring BCA’s do not get stale)
• Better understanding of current and future renewal needs
• Graphical analysis and decision-making capability
• Enhanced measurements including 'Unfunded Liability' and 'Facility Condition Index'

Step Two: Develop Strategies that leverage your funding

Ameresco works with you to devise financial strategies that leverage facility-related savings opportunities and optimize budgeted capital dollars.

Key benefits include:

• Increase in capital to apply to your buildings
• Enhanced decision-making with before and after graphical images
• Multiple Capital Creation Strategies™ (including energy conservation, renewable energy solutions, maintenance optimization, redevelopment strategies, acquisition/disposition strategies. etc.)
• Greener facilities with reduced Carbon Footprint
• Lower operating costs

Step Three: Implementation

We hold ourselves to the highest standards, prioritizing initiatives that are of key strategic importance to the organization, and ensuring all project are managed with the greatest efficiency and professionalism.

Key benefits include:

• Methods and processes to 'start construction' quickly
• Construction Management and Design-Build processes to rapidly advance multiple construction projects
• Streamlining the tender management process
• Ensuring projects come in on schedule and on budget
• Blending green technologies with efficient design
• New builds, retrofits and redevelopment

Literature

Case Studies:

Toronto Community Housing

BC Housing

Clients

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