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Transform Your Vision Into Reality

Schools and local governments across Indiana are increasingly confronted with infrastructure challenges that demand enhanced efficiency, better operations, and cost reductions. Our innovative design-build approach and guaranteed energy savings contracts provide customized solutions for new construction, major renovations, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) for modern water management, and solar projects. Better yet, we do so without change orders.

Empowering Indiana Clients with Proper Funding

High-performing facilities and systems are more cost-effective to own and operate. So, we help Indiana K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and cities, towns, and counties address deferred maintenance and pair solutions with real performance guarantees that ensure long-term accountability. Our partnerships unlock access to low-interest financing, rebates, and utility incentives, helping clients maximize value for their communities.

How We Do It
What Sets Us Apart

How We Do It

Our team provides leadership for the entire project. From design to completion, including project management, control systems, and performance assurance work, we are a one-stop shop. We engage local community members through a collaborative approach. We leverage team relationships and handle desired changes within the scope of work without change orders to assure a quality result and a satisfied client.

What Sets Us Apart

Besides our unique design and delivery approach, our process provides additional key differentiators:

Take Control of Your Community's Future

Our all-in-one construction approach provides best-value projects that lead to significant energy and operational savings. Our core service offerings include:

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GUARANTEED ENERGY SAVINGS PROJECTS

Performance contracting is a flexible funding mechanism that allows schools, universities, cities, towns, counties, and state governments to finance energy-focused infrastructure projects with the guaranteed energy and efficiency savings of the infrastructure improvements. As a result, no upfront capital is required.
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DESIGN-BUILD CONSTRUCTION

Design-build construction is an approach for infrastructure improvement projects for either new construction or renovations in which a single entity, working under one contract, performs both the design and construction of the project. Because there is only one contract, the design-builder sees the project through from the initial design concept to construction completion, carrying single-source accountability. Benefits of this approach include reduced owner risk, higher quality, quicker delivery, and cost efficiencies.
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EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING

We employ educational planners as essential team members of our design team. As part of our programmatic facility study process and reporting, we examine educational needs, growth capacity, current infrastructure, learning environment, safety, accessibility, curricular enhancement, technology, community areas, site traffic flow, and space needs for special education offerings.
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FACILITIES STUDIES

Before beginning an infrastructure-related renovation project, the first key step is to conduct a preliminary facility condition and energy assessment to identify how facilities are currently operating, identify potential issues, and provide a blueprint for future improvements. Once the assessment is completed, our clients have a thorough roadmap for planning their renovation projects. If they choose to proceed with a project, our integrated team can help implement it from start to finish.
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SOLAR POWER SOLUTIONS

We have an in-house solar development and operations team of professional engineers and project managers who take a comprehensive approach to ensure solar solutions are designed to meet clients’ long-range energy master plans and needs. Our team takes a proactive approach to ensuring holistic, right-sized, integrated design, installation, and performance monitoring and reporting throughout the process.
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SMART CITY INFRASTRUCTURE

Our team works with cities and towns to develop a tailored approach to infrastructure improvements that can be completed with budget-neutral financing. Key energy conservation measures and improvements include onsite power generation, networked LED streetlights, smart water meters, and water and wastewater improvements.
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WATER AND WASTEWATER SOLUTIONS

We partner with cities and towns to identify what water and energy reduction strategies can impact the bottom line and contribute to a sustainable future. By implementing advanced metering infrastructure and wastewater treatment plant projects, we help clients save money while providing operational efficiencies.

Projects

Merrillville Community Schools

City of Rushville

Griffith Public Schools

Elkhart County Courts

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Warsaw Community Schools High School Project

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Beech Grove City Schools Agri-Science Greenhouse

Tipton County Sheriff’s Office Corrections Center

Avon Community School Corporation High School

St Joseph County

Fort Wayne Community Schools

The progressive design-build process that Performance Services has taken us through has been second to none. Unlike the previously unsuccessful plan-spec process that we tried on the same building, the design-build team is delivering a much faster, higher-quality building that stayed within our budget and included several local trade contractors.