Resilience and Sustainability
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SEA uses a comprehensive and customized process for conducting assessments and establishing baselines to develop resilience and sustainability recommendations.
Energy resilience assessments are crucial for facility owners for several reasons, including ensuring continuity of operations, cost management, risk mitigation, regulatory compliance, enhanced facility value, regulatory compliance, and environmental impact just to name a few. Our SEA team is well versed in the assessments necessary to posture our clients for resilience and sustainability (Energy and Water Evaluations, Installation Energy and Water Plans, and Capital Investment strategy development).
Facility owners have a responsibility to ensure the functionality of their buildings, with particular focus on energy, water, HVAC and network availability, sustaining resilience and efficiency, while minimizing environmental impact.
While essential for those managing critical facilities such as hospitals, airports, grocers, emergency responder facilities, and key infrastructure, assessing vulnerability is important for any facility. Facility owners and managers must be conscious of what poses a risk or threat to their buildings…anything that may disrupt the ability to function effectively. Sustaining a reliable energy source, is perhaps the most important way of mitigating significant, negative, impacts to a building that may result from natural disaster, major accident, cyber-attack, or other harmful acts.
SEA is skilled at designing and conducting energy and water vulnerability evaluations. This process begins with comprehensively and intelligently establishing your facility’s current baseline energy security status, from which your Energy Resiliency Plan can be built. The Energy Resiliency Plan provides a specific and detailed assessment of existing risks, and the actions required to either mitigate or respond, in the event of power loss at any location. In other words, SEA can guide you through the complex task of identifying and choosing which hazards to guard against and how best to do so in order to establish your building’s framework for operational effectiveness.
For federal clients in particular, SEA has become a trusted partner to help navigate the complicated path of maintaining efficient, self-sustaining operations, if need be, independent from the public grid. We help:
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Identify critical facilities and energy sources
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Analyze potential threats
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Define a plan for continuing operations
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Train the response processes
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Plan for remedial action
We accomplish these tasks by providing:
Our goal in everything we do is to ensure SEA’s client facilities operate at optimal sustainability. Via consultation, SEA can help your organization cultivate an energy strategy by identifying energy cost-saving measures, infrastructure improvement (project) opportunities, and integrated action plans to increase the resilience of your facility.
SEA has supported various military installations in developing and maintaining a strategy for achieving the requisite 14-day energy resilience standard, ensuring the ability to execute critical missions, should there be a disruption to availability of power via the local power-grid. As part of this planning process, we have helped identify and develop small- and large-scale projects to build in the appropriately redundant energy architecture to ensure continual power availability to sustain operations regardless of circumstances.
Having supported the U.S. Army’s Energy Program for many years, SEA has become a trusted energy expert across the DoD and other federal and state agencies in the support, training, and execution of the Installation Energy and Water Plans (IEWPs). The IEWP is a comprehensive assessment and planning process designed to reduce the 1) rate of energy and water use, 2) risk of disrupted availability of these resources on an installation, and 3) overall operating costs of an installation, ultimately, helping decision-makers ensure efficient use of these critical resources. While IEWP was developed with the Army in mind, the approach can be adapted to effectively assess any military base-like installation.
Resilience Strategies including Installation Energy and Water Planning
SEA has been instrumental in helping to develop resilience strategies across the DoD, with particularly robust efforts across the Navy, Army, Army National Guard and Reserves.