Preservation and refinancing
Assess physical needs, reserves, energy and water performance, and rehabilitation priorities in support of the financing plan.
Construction & real estate due diligenceNational Reach. Local Insight.
Request a proposal In the field. In the documents. On the record.A KOW client perspective
Public & Housing Agencies
Physical-needs, accessibility, environmental, construction, and building-performance consulting for regulated, mission-driven, and affordable-housing portfolios.
Your perspective
Technical work shaped around the responsibility you carry.
Public, affordable-housing, and mission-driven organizations balance physical needs, accessibility, resident impact, funding requirements, energy performance, compliance, and long-term stewardship. The work has to serve the applicable program while remaining useful through design, construction, operations, and capital planning.
KOW coordinates multidisciplinary scopes, fieldwork, documentation, and reporting around the properties and program requirements in the assignment. The result is a clearer view of priorities, timing, costs, and the information still needed to move from assessment to implementation.
Where KOW enters
Before closing, during the work, and through the hold.
Program and funding applications
Organize accessibility, technical review, criteria, documentation, and verification around the applicable housing or sustainability program.
Portfolio stewardship
Build a consistent capital-needs and performance picture across properties with different ages, systems, and resident needs.
What matters
Built around the questions you have to answer.
Program-aligned scopes and deliverables
Accessibility carried through design and construction
Long-range physical, energy, and water planning
Documentation that supports funding and implementation
Questions to answer
What the report should make clear.
- 01
Which immediate conditions affect safety, accessibility, residents, operations, or asset preservation?
- 02
What major needs are anticipated during the applicable planning period?
- 03
How should physical needs, accessible design, energy, water, resilience, and program requirements be coordinated?
- 04
Which improvements are realistic within available funding, sequencing, and occupied-building constraints?
A useful deliverable
What the report should do for your team.
Follow the governing program
Use the applicable forms, classifications, analysis period, documentation, criteria, and review process confirmed for the funding or agency assignment.
Keep resident and operating impact visible
Address access, phasing, continuity, health and safety, temporary conditions, and occupied-building constraints where they affect the plan.
Connect needs with resources
Organize physical, environmental, energy, water, resilience, and compliance work around available funding, reserves, program milestones, and implementation capacity.
Preserve a long-term property record
Make sources, assumptions, quantities, costs, priorities, completed work, and future updates understandable beyond the immediate transaction.
Proposal and kickoff
What to send at the start.
You do not need every item before contacting KOW. Share what is available, identify what is still coming, and flag the date the work must support.
Property roster, ownership or agency contacts, resident or site coordination contacts, and program schedule
Governing program guidance, required forms, funding commitments, reliance, review milestones, and submission instructions
Unit, building, system, utility, occupancy, accessibility, and prior rehabilitation information
Capital plans, prior needs assessments, energy or water data, environmental reports, testing, and compliance records
Proposed rehabilitation scope, available budget, funding sources, procurement path, and occupied-building constraints
Known urgent conditions, resident-impact concerns, missing records, planned specialist work, and required agency coordination
Priority services
Expertise for the work ahead.
IPNA / GPNA
An integrated assessment of physical needs, energy and water performance, and long-range capital requirements for multifamily and affordable housing.
Explore service Accessibility ConsultingProject-specific accessibility review from governing requirements and coordinated construction documents through field observations, issue tracking, and closeout.
Explore service HRD / HRDR ReportsProgram-specific environmental review and reporting for housing rehabilitation projects using public, agency, or regulated financing.
Explore service EGC CertificationCertification services from criteria selection and prebuild submission through design coordination, construction verification, and postbuild documentation.
Explore service Energy AuditsBuilding energy-use analysis and energy conservation recommendations for capital planning, Local Law 87 assignments, and NYSERDA FlexTech studies.
Explore service Capital Needs AssessmentsA forward-looking schedule of major repairs and replacements based on observed condition, expected useful life, program requirements, and the planning period.
Explore serviceStart a conversation
Start a conversation for public & housing agencies.
Tell us what you’re working on. Our team will help define the right scope and get a proposal moving.
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