K-12 Schools
Our team works hard to welcome your students home to new and renovated classrooms that help inspire learning. We provide programmatic facilities studies; design and build new schools; renovate, modernize, and expand historic high school campuses; and complete life-safety projects for a wide range of school districts. Solar Power Systems and Energy Leadership programs are part of an overall solution to reduce operating costs so that schools can direct more resources to their teachers and students. It’s what we do.
Avon Community School Corporation
"Avon Community School Corporation has done multiple projects with Performance Services over the last several years. We have been pleased with the construction process and their work has led to positive changes to our schools. Their approach is collaborative and they value input from our team at all steps in the process. They are responsive to feedback and have a strong team in all areas of the organization. We value the high-quality work and collaboration that Performance Services brings to our district."
Scott Wyndham
Superintendent
Related ProjectNoblesville Schools
"We were able to know from start to finish how every dollar was spent. As a steward of Noblesville taxpayer dollars, it is very important to be able to go back to the community and say that we fulfilled our promise. We completed the project on time, under budget, and we scrutinized the process. We have proof of that."
Jeff Bragg
Former Director of Operations
Related ProjectGreendale School District
"The Greendale School District chose to employ a team of community members knowledgeable about engineering and finance, as well as our architect and key administrators to vet the potential project priorities and selection process. A comparison of two responses by the group left no doubt that Performance Services was the clear choice. They came to the table with detailed costs and detailed engineering plans. An analysis yielded that Performance Services would be at least $500K less, provide clear open book pricing, use vendors of our choice, and would return any unused funds to us to enlarge our scope. No ambiguity on costs and no change orders. The choice was easy!"
Erin Green
Business Manager (Retired)
Related ProjectNorth Adams Community Schools
"Whether you are a student, parent, family member, staff, school board member, or resident of the community, you are impacted by education and our school district. We are confident that this project will truly represent our community's genuine desire to invest into the education of our students and our future, and will demonstrate positive effects on the delivery of our educational services to our students and school community."
Brent Lehman
Former Superintendent
Related ProjectK-12 APPROACH
Before we build anything, we build relationships.
The key to success is total focus on the needs of students, teachers and school communities. That’s why we commit time to get to know individual school clients and their unique needs. We gain a deep understanding of aspirations and challenges. Only then do we put forward solutions that, as experience teaches us, will really work.
We interpret the school environment as a series of flexible learning spaces that will inevitably, and rightly, adapt and evolve. So, as and when a change needs to be made, we will always do our best to accommodate it. We collaborate and communicate to make your desired changes happen without change orders to go with them–saving time and money.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does Client Control mean in K-12?
What is the Performance Services guarantee?
K-12 EXPERTISE
Informed by experience, delivered by design.
Deep and broad K-12 expertise only comes from working extensively in K-12 schools. At Performance Services, our work in hundreds of schools provides us with a unique and trained perspective.
Our team creates energy-efficient and flexible spaces that can be repurposed based on evolving programming needs and contribute to academic achievement. Still, we also help our clients to optimize their spaces year-round with data analytics to save money and earn the ENERGY STAR recognition for their achievements in energy conservation.
Team capabilities include comprehensive energy assessments, programmatic facility studies, ground-up construction, additions, major renovations, and solar power systems. Our in-house design-build team includes architects and engineers commanding extensive industry experience.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is the ENERGY STAR® certification so important?
Why is practicing energy leadership so important?
What is Four-Season Optimization?
K-12 BENEFITS
Benefits you control.
School building projects offer unique opportunities to improve learning environments for students and to replace old equipment in pursuit of high-efficiency performance and energy savings.
Performance Services delivers these outcomes and the guaranteed performance levels desired by our clients. Please find out how our K-12 experience can benefit you and place you in control of your learning environment and energy budget.
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Optimized Learning Environments
Welcome your students back to healthy and comfortable classrooms. Based on our understanding of the learning environment components and their effect on classroom performance, we focus on improving and optimizing school learning environments.
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Guaranteed Outcomes
We know how much delivering on our promises matters to our school clients. That’s why we guarantee the outcomes we promise, whether they concern specific environmental parameters, such as temperature, air quality, or energy savings.
We don’t deal with approximations. We prefer real measurements and real numbers. We derive our baseline from current utility bills – real-world consumption rather than models. And we don’t base future promises on vague projections. Instead, we commit to firm savings based on actual consumption today.
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Minimal Disruptions
It’s important for our team to get as much physical work done during school vacation windows and be as unobtrusive as possible. As a result, fast delivery of optimized environments, with minimized disruption to the life of the school, is at the heart of our approach.
At the outset, we create a single, committed and focused team of expert specialists. We familiarize ourselves fully in advance with the physical, practical issues on the ground. Lines of communication are short. Issues are identified quickly and dealt with swiftly. This makes for a faster delivery environment and better decision quality, based on accurate information.
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Equipment Replacement Plan
All physical equipment has a finite productive life. After a certain time, it may be more expensive to maintain than to opt for a replacement. Performance Services helps our school clients to understand the precise status of their physical infrastructure.
Our experts examine aged equipment or underperforming installations. We then produce an objective report that captures key issues such as the age of equipment compared with its expected useful life or the presence of coolants that are no longer legal for use.
Frequently Asked Questions
What’s the difference between Design-Bid-Build and Design-Build projects?
What are the Design-Build K-12 guarantees included for new construction and renovation projects?