Our team works at the purchase stage to provide solutions that capitalize on the most efficient lifetime cost. We evaluate not only the capital cost but also costs incurred in replacing equipment over time, as well as the cost of the energy where appropriate. We also benchmark technical options against industry standards.
What We Do
Our services are offered in three key areas:
Whole Life Appraisals
Whole Life Appraisals should ideally be integrated into the purchase equipment process from concept business case stage through to occupancy, or as part of your capital investment estates strategy. As the design or purchase process moves through each development stage, the options and alternatives evolve and are assessed in a whole life context.
Operating Cost Planning
Operating Cost Planning is a key part of whole life evaluation and must be embedded into the purchase and design process to ensure efficient day-to-day operating costs. Clear understanding of business as usual operational costs help drive robust decisions from a lifetime perspective.
Renewable Technologies
Renewable Technologies are increasingly offered as options in major refurbishments or alongside strategic investments to drive down existing energy usage. They open up the potential to benefit from a range of incentives and tariffs.
We have the skills and knowledge to evaluate options from both a whole life and operational efficiency perspective.
What You Get
PAMCO provides a firm basis for achieving environmentally sound performance, and we have our own model to help you make efficiencies across your property portfolio.
Benchmark
key activities during the initial stage include gathering information on running costs, and checking and sanitizing details to make sure that data is complete. If gaps are apparent, missing data is estimated appropriately.
Analyze
this stage investigates the required report outputs – analyzing energy consumption, validating performance of equipment or systems and testing why facilities perform as indicated. We are aware that all equipment have unique features which can make ‘benchmarking’ difficult. However, the key output from the analysis is the ability to understand performance drivers in order to set in place plans to mitigate areas of concern.
Actions
next we integrate our data analysis and benchmarking results to develop an improvement plan. Improvements to facilities management and housekeeping practices typically deliver between a 5–25 percent saving in annual costs. Emerging findings also highlight low cost and high return on investment opportunities. All proposals are tailored to the needs of your business and based on your asset investment strategy.
Monitor
this stage transfers knowledge and asset information to your team, and provides you with tools to support monitoring and validation of future performance against benchmarks. We can assist your team with training and familiarization support in the use and deployment of these tools, as well as providing ad-hoc support on an ongoing basis, should your team require.