Optimal Learning Environments

Client control means solutions, not problems. Our ‘right first time’ project rollout means busy education professionals do not have to spend their valuable time getting involved in resolving problems with their building and renovation projects.  As the sole contractor, we take full responsibility at all times. We resolve issues quickly without the need for time-consuming change orders. We will never avoid a problem. We will always deal with it.

In short, Client control means:

• The voice of the Client is always heard first
• Our Client-centric approach and 15-communication checkpoints ensure K-12 project owners’ needs are the focus of every decision
• Key stakeholders have a real voice throughout the cycle, from planning to delivery

All our Clients have the reassurance of a very simple promise. If we don’t deliver the energy savings we promise, and for the whole life of one of our guaranteed performance contracts, we will cut a check to cover any difference. That’s guaranteed.

With each contract, we actively monitor building performance and we support facilities teams to help make sure that each building and its spaces are functioning as efficiently as possible. In fact, we are so committed to ensuring ongoing delivery that we have our own dedicated Performance Assurance Group.

Today, Performance Services has more than 760 integrated design and delivery projects, utilizing both design-build and guaranteed energy savings contracts.

Design-Bid-Build, also known as plan and specification, presents the Client with a dual task. They have to manage an architect and the design process. They also have to manage a general contractor and specialty contractors. That’s time-consuming, demanding and involves multiple points of accountability. By design, the design-bid-build process has the potential for the owner to be stuck in the middle of issues and disputes if they arise.

The Design-Build approach offers K-12 schools a direct route to total delivery. There is just one contract, one line of supply and one single point of accountability. Through Design-Build, Performance Services aligns all the expertise required throughout design and construction from conceptual planning, design, construction, mechanical and controls to deliver a single, seamless outcome: a high performing building and optimized learning environment.

Performance Services includes these performance guarantees on every Design-Build new construction and/or renovation project:

• Guaranteed maximum price
• Client approved Best Value subcontractors, equipment, and suppliers
• A “No Change Order” guarantee
• Lowest possible cost of ownership
• Guaranteed performance
• The pursuit of the ENERGY STAR^® certification
• Long-term project accountability

ENERGY STAR^® certification is a strong and prestigious symbol of commitment to responsible resource usage and a caring approach to our environment.

Performance Services is a leading qualified guaranteed energy savings provider for ENERGY STAR^® labeled buildings with over 153 buildings certified to date. To help you achieve the ENERGY STAR^® label, we:

• Start by carrying out a preliminary energy analysis of your buildings so that we can give your current ENERGY STAR^® benchmark score
• Make specific recommendations on reducing of energy consumption while still maintaining an optimal environment
• Monitor 12 consecutive months of the utility data required for the EPA’s ENERGY STAR^® Portfolio Manager
• Support, if desired, promotional activity to showcase and celebrate your achievement when the ENERGY STAR label is awarded

Performance Services is proud to have supported our Clients to help them achieve the ENERGY STAR^® certification, a symbol of a high-performing building.

Energy leadership is important because saving energy is crucial to preserving our global environment and reducing energy bills. Saving energy has quickly become an imperative for students, teachers, parents, and taxpayer school communities.

Saving energy and reducing energy bills has an immediate and positive effect on individual institutions. Hard-pressed budgets have less outlay to find and financial resources can be diverted and re-applied to other critical areas (teacher salaries, new equipment, enhanced facilities, etc.). An energy conscious and efficient school enjoys a sustainable and valuable route to ongoing savings and a positive profile within the community.

The needs of students and pressures on budgets mean no school today can afford to have “that classroom” — the one where students and teachers are cold in winter and hot during the summer months. That’s why Performance Services is dedicated to four-season optimization. In every room. In every building.  And in every season.

We make sure that controls systems are programmed to respond appropriately to deliver a comfortable environment at all times of the year. As such, there are four visits in the first year (one each season) from Performance Services’ experts, to make sure that all mechanical and control elements are working together effectively as specified—and in the ways owners would expect.