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Utility Advisory Services

For more than 90 years, Carollo has focused exclusively on water. As one of the industry’s leading management consultants, we provide organizational assistance at all levels of an organization, including: business intelligence, financial planning, asset management, information management and integration, climatology, and energy conservation.

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Our Utility Advisory Services include:
  • Owner’s advisory services
  • Financial management
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Organizational assistance at all levels

We offer our management support and utility advisory services to our water clientele through an integrated suite of services: Strategic Management, Financial Management, and Program Management. We integrate our capabilities in program planning, project delivery analysis and procurement, program controls, project management and contract oversight, finance and economics, asset management, and organizational support.

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It is important for utilities to continue to provide creative technical solutions; however, these solutions must be executed within the context of sound, innovative business practices to be successful in the competitive and results-driven modern utility market.
Scott Vanier, P.E., Utility Advisory Services Director
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Program Management and Owner’s Advisory

Carollo has not only pioneered design-build best practices but also managed some of the most complex water and wastewater projects in the U.S. Services offered through this group include project planning and controls, engineering and construction oversight, communications and public outreach, business processes and facilities integration, permitting assistance, and land acquisition and entitlement management.

Strategic Management

Carollo’s comprehensive asset management and consulting services allow utilities to meet expectations for proactively planned and maintained water infrastructure that boasts reduced risks, increased resilience, and natural disaster preparedness. In addition to performing condition assessments and risk planning, this group leverages infrastructure information, maintenance strategies, planning methods, financial data, and analytical techniques to collectively maximize the value of a utility’s assets.

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Financial Management

Our foundational engineering and technical expertise in water and wastewater systems allows us to critically assess creative and technically sound solutions that match a utility’s financial health, practices, and goals. Services offered through this group include rate and charge studies, financial and capital improvement planning, and utility valuations.

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Digital Water Solutions

As water utilities are becoming more exposed to digital technologies including work order management, SCADA, metering, data management, GIS and much more, utility staff are facing challenges in navigating this complex world of information technologies compounded by forever changing software solutions and a deluge of data. Our Digital Water Solutions team guides utilities through this digital marketplace supporting technology selection, procurement, integration, implementation and configuration, with our solutions scaled for small to large utilities.

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