Title: Striking While the Climate is Hot: New Program Design for Accelerated Delivery of Energy Retrofit Projects
Abstract: This paper presents a new program design that streamlines and accelerates energy project identification and delivery. Never has there been more capital and political support for energy efficiency; but taking advantage of this opportunity, on a scale and pace that tangibly impacts Climate Change, requires new program deployment strategies. Meeting this challenge is especially difficult in the public sector due to limited staff and traditional contracting methods that are administratively burdensome and slow. City of San Francisco’s program brings together in-house staff with local energy engineering teams for audit, design and construction management services and Job Order Contracts (JOC) for construction - in a partnership approach. A JOC is a competitively bid, indefinite quantity contract with a catalog of detailed construction tasks at established unit prices. JOCs are part of a trend that is transforming the public sector construction industry. The program offers many advantages associated with more bundled contracting - such as speedy project delivery, reduced administrative burden, cost certainty, improved teamwork and reduced finger pointing – without sacrificing competitive pricing and quality. The project schedule for designthrough-construction award has been reduced to as little as six weeks compared to 10-15 months using conventional procurement strategies. The program has helped staff approximately double its projected project “through-put” completing about $4 million in energy retrofits initiated during the first year. The program design can serve as an innovative model for agencies seeking to capture the remaining efficiency potential in their facilities at a pace that satisfies federal stimulus funding requirements.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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