Brown and Caldwell launches utility optimization service
Brown and Caldwell (BC), an environmental engineering and construction firm, yesterday announced the launch of BC:Opta™, a consulting service directing towards optimizing processes and asset management in the water industry.
The new service states that its approach encompasses a three-part framework: people, technology and adoption. The approach begins with the company’s subject matter expertise and, if applicable, employs proven or innovative technologies. One key step involves empowering a utility to maintain a lasting adoption of its suggested solution, so that the utility can fully realize changes to its performance.
“As an industry, we know we need to get better, but how should we do it? It’s not that we must do more with less; it’s that we must do more with the same capital, operating budgets, and staff,” says BC’s utility performance practice lead Jeff Theerman. “The answer is in optimization.”
BC says that its new service is supported by advanced analytics, automation technologies, and digital twins. The optimization’s outcomes could include:
- Operational performance: Reduced energy and chemical usage, enhanced resource utilization, expanded plant capacities and cost-effective performance improvements across operations.
- Infrastructure strategy: Comprehensive asset and maintenance management; capital program delivery; and enhanced data management strategies to achieve improved asset life and cost of ownership at risk levels acceptable to customers, communities, and regulators.
- Enterprise resiliency: Improved business processes, employee skills development, integrated planning across utility functions, management strategy, and knowledge retention.
BC hopes that its new service will help utilities enhance processes, shift expenditures, better align staff resources and meet evolving customer needs.
SOURCE: Brown and Caldwell