PEER Consultants worked as part of a team to provide general program support for the Asset Management Program at Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission. Under this umbrella contract, PEER assisted the project team on several task orders. The tasks orders include but are not limited to, updating Asset Registries (including condition assessments) – for Waste Water Treatment Plans and Support Services Facilities, updating asset management plans (AMP) – processes and procedures, and updating and maintaining a comprehensive resource loaded schedule to track all the projects under WSSC Asset Management Office (AMO). Additionally, PEER provided an Innovation Program 5-Year Roadmap and an Innovation Program Innovation Long Term Support and Implementation.
Operations & Maintenance Assistance Program (OMAP)
The Operations & Maintenance Assistance Program (OMAP) provides start-up and operations and maintenance engineering services required for the completion of CIP projects. PEER administers, coordinates, and advises on all project activities including but not limited to, the monitoring of each sub-project construction contract performance, acceptance testing, and advising when all systems were complete and ready for start-up and turnover to Department of Wastewater Treatment, Department of Maintenance Services, and Facilities for normal operation.
Improving Dundalk Sewershed Collection System - Wastewater Engineering Services
The Wastewater Engineering Services for the Improvements of the Dundalk Sewershed Collection System Project was a Joint Venture (JV) contracted by the City of Baltimore, Department of Public Works, to design and oversee the construction of collection system improvements in the Dundalk Sewershed. The contract consisted of the preparation of design documents for the construction of collection system improvements within the Dundalk Sewershed and the provision of post-award services during the construction of the improvements. A set of collection system improvements had been identified in a Sewershed Study and Plan (SSP) prepared by another contractor.
Kheis Municipality in the Northern Cape Province – Micro-grids, South Africa
Internationally, over the past 2 years, PEER has been in working with its sister company, PEER Africa, to develop and install 507 distributive generation micro-grids in the informal settlement in the !Kheis Municipality in the Northern Cape Province in South Africa.
Each home – described as an informal shelter constructed of bits and pieces of tin and/or wood – is equipped with a 7.5 kW PV solar home system kit, which includes a PV panel, kitchen appliances, cell phone charging station, a color TV, radio and computer. These shelters are completely “off the grid”, since the central grid connection is far and already insecure and overloaded, operating completely on battery storage, i.e. DC current only.
District of Columbia Sustainable Energy Utility (DC SEU)
PEER participates as a teaming partner, primarily responsible for providing program management, engineering, and account management services. PEER engineers have worked with a range of customers, including business owners, architects, engineers, vendors, trade allies to promote the installation of cost-effective and efficiency improvements in customers’ future and existing buildings/facilities as per their site specific needs. The PEER team performs energy and water utility bills analyses, and estimates cost savings for implementation and utilization of a variety of energy efficient and conserving measures appropriate to the project in office buildings, commercial properties, and residential apartment complexes in the Washington, DC area.
Resilient Communities South Africa
Circa the 1990s, the Witsand community in the Western Cape of South Africa was a 20 year-old shantytown of over 2,000 shacks; living conditions were deplorable, with no access to basic services. PEER Africa and PEER Consultants were chosen by the Cape Town City Council to transform the community using the integrated Energy Environment Empowerment Cost-Optimization (iEEECO™) methodology.