We own, operate, and maintain the HVAC and MEP infrastructure that keeps your building running. Whether we install new systems at the design stage or fund and take over your existing ones, we make a single commitment: the infrastructure is maintained, fully available, and ready whenever you need it, and we pay for it all.
Central plant schedule
Representative acute care facility
Tag
System
Inst.
Remaining Useful Life
Owner · post-close
CH-1
Centrifugal chiller, 450 ton
1994
0 yr
Facility → Hawthorne
CH-2
Centrifugal chiller, 450 ton
2003
2 yr
Facility → Hawthorne
B-1
Firetube boiler, 600 BHP
1991
0 yr
Facility → Hawthorne
AHU-3
Air handler – surgical suite
1998
0 yr
Facility → Hawthorne
ATS-1
Transfer switch – essential branch
1994
1 yr
Facility → Hawthorne
BAS
Building automation & controls
2006
3 yr
Facility → Hawthorne
Scope
Acquire · modernize · operate
Capital
Hawthorne
Term
Long-dated
We take care of the essential infrastructure that keeps a building running – the systems people depend on every single day yet struggle to properly budget for or maintain.
Essential infrastructure means the mechanical, electrical, and life-safety plant inside the places a community relies on: hospitals and clinics, senior and long-term care, schools and campuses, and the multifamily buildings people call home. It’s the plant that delivers services that people cannot live without. Two tests define it:
The service cannot be deferred or forgone. Heating, cooling, hot water, power, and life-safety qualify for acute care, long-term care, multifamily housing, and campus education.
The people who rely on the building have no ready alternative. A hospital may be the region's only source of a critical service line; a resident cannot simply relocate when the heat fails. Either way, the infrastructure has to work.
Parameters
Indicative
TERM
Long-dated, matched to the design life of the systems rather than to a credit cycle
SYSTEMS
Central plant, distribution, emergency and standby power, controls and metering
ENTRY
Acquisition of installed plant, or participation in the capital stack of a new development at design stage
COUNTERPARTY
Essential community infrastructure – independent healthcare, senior living, institutional, multifamily, and hospitality assets where the condition holds
We acquire the existing infrastructure at independently supported value, fund and execute the modernization program, and operate the systems for the term. The owner pays a defined service fee against set performance standards.
The assessed value of the installed plant is paid to the owner at closing.
The owner transfers the replacement obligation and operating risk, and converts a capital event into a contracted operating cost.
Availability and environmental conditions are defined, measured, reported, and remediable.
The service fee is fixed at execution and escalates by formula. It is not renegotiated year to year.
Condition, remaining useful life, consumption, and preliminary valuation.
4–8 weeks
Scope definition, service levels, title and conveyance review, capital consultation.
6–12 weeks
Purchase and services agreement negotiation, board and lender approvals, conditions precedent.
8–16 weeks
Closing, capital program execution, phased commissioning, operational handover.
12–36 months
Continuous operation, maintenance, measurement, reporting, lifecycle replacement.
For the full contract term
Hawthorne platform established
Hawthorne Energy Infrastructure is owned by Hawthorne World, which has designed, built, and operated high-performance and net-zero building systems since 1984 – including ground-source, solar, storage, and integrated mechanical plant across multifamily, senior living, and commercial assets.
We survey the plant and price it.
