MULTIFAMILY
health and safety partner, nationwide
For 35 years, we’ve been serving multifamily developers, lenders, and facility and asset managers to identify the best investments, mitigate risk and optimize their infrastructure and built facilities for maximum economic, safety and environmental value.
Assess • Advise • Improve • Verify
what we do
Deliver high quality, responsive services nationwide
Our core strengths and history providing property and environmental building investigation, complemented by our leadership in agency lending, positions us as industry leaders of assessment, improvement, and verification services for the multifamily housing industry. EBI’s team brings experience and skills that help add value to investors, developers, or operators’ assets in the affordable housing segment. We provide our clients with top-tier guidance for asset management, investment decisions, portfolio management, sustainability, acquisitions, compliance and more.
Multifamily assets served:
Affordable Housing ● Assisted Living ● Mixed Use ● Student Housing
How we do it
An Integrated suite of services
We are unique in our ability to deliver high quality, responsive environmental, sustainability, health and safety services across the entire asset lifecycle, from rapid assessments, to advisory, to implementation and verification services, nationwide.
1. assess
Rapidly understand the condition, value, opportunities, feasibility, and risks associated with your infrastructure, building or property portfolio.
2. Advise
Navigate the complexities of your multifamily commercial real estate environment by tapping into advice and guidance from our highly experienced nationwide experts.
3. Improve
Maximize your multifamily housing portfolio’s asset value. and yields by improving the overall energy, efficiency and environmental performance as we help you accelerate your path to green building compliance and minimizing the risk of lending on stranded (brown) assets.
4. Verify
Ensure your intricate multifamily building and construction projects comply with agency loan, standards, regulations, permitting and investment requirements.
Browse through our services
✓ Mechanical Electrical Plumbing (MEP) Assessments ✓ Energy Benchmarking ✓ Green Certification Gap Analysis ✓ Energy/Carbon Compliance Assessments ✓ ESG Site Checklist ✓ Solar Assessments ✓ Asbestos, Lead, PCBs, & Other Hazardous Materials Inspection, & Risk Assessment Services ✓ Mold & Moisture Assessments ✓ Radon Testing, & Remediation System Inspection Services ✓ Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Assessments ✓ Water Intrusion & Weather Damage Assessments ✓ Regulatory Compliance Assessments ✓ Risk Analysis ✓ Permitting and Entitlements Services ✓ Pre-Construction Services✓ Energy & Sustainability Assessment Services
✓ ESG Strategic Assessment Services
✓ Environmental, Health & Safety Assessment Services
✓ Building Investigation & Remediation Assessment Services
✓ Site Investigation & Remediation Assessment Services
✓ Acquisitions (& Capital Asset Management) Assessment Services
✓ Construction Loan Monitoring Assessment Services
✓ RF-EME Assessment Services
✓ Traditional Due Diligence Assessment Services
✓ Multifamily Agency Assessment Services
✓ Telecom Environmental Assessment Services
✓ Project Management Services
✓ Energy Audit & Road Map Development ✓ Decarbonization Audit & Road Map Development ✓ Green Certification Feasibility Studies ✓ Energy Simulation & Modeling ✓ Tax Credit Analysis ✓ Utility Rebate Analysis ✓ Water Audit & Road Map Development ✓ Soil Pre-Characterization for Pre-Construction Strategy ✓ Construction-Related Remediation Specifications & Contingency Plans ✓ Soil Management & Dewatering Management Plans ✓ Environmental Health & Safety Plans (HASP) ✓ Direct and Manage Project Work ✓ Project Cost Development and Management ✓ Communications Management ✓ Schedule Management✓ Energy & Sustainability Advisory Services
✓ ESG Strategic Advisory Services
✓ Environmental, Health & Safety Advisory Services
✓ Building Investigation & Remediation Advisory Services
✓ Site Investigation & Remediation Advisory Services
✓ Acquisitions (& Capital Asset Management) Advisory Services
✓ Construction Loan Monitoring Advisory Services
✓ RF-EME Advisory Services
✓ Traditional Due Diligence Advisory Services
✓ Multifamily Agency Advisory Services
✓ Telecom Environmental Advisory Services
✓ Project Management Services
✓ Green Certification Facilitation ✓ Existing Systems Retro-Commissioning ✓ Sustainability Design Review & Optimization ✓ Air & Water-Flow Testing & Balancing Optimization ✓ Sustainable Design Charrettes ✓ Asbestos, lead, PCBs, & Other Hazardous Materials Maintenance, Repairs, & Abatement Services ✓ Mold & Moisture Remediation Services ✓ Radon Remediation; Radon-Resistant New-Construction, & Installation Management Services ✓ Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Remediation & Enhancement ✓ Water-Intrusion & Weather-Damage Rapid Response & Restoration Services ✓ Abatement Management, Oversight & Final Clearance Services ✓ Regulatory Permitting ✓ Construction Project Abatement Bidding, Permitting, Construction Administration, Management, Air Monitoring, Reporting & Project Closeout Services ✓ Hazardous Materials, Operations & Maintenance (O&M) Program, Training & Ongoing Implementation Support ✓ Program Development for Consistent Standards-of-Care Across Your Asset Portfolio ✓ Stakeholder Engagement and Management ✓ Change Order Management ✓ Project Resource Management ✓ Project Quality Management✓ Energy & Sustainability Improvement Services
✓ ESG Improvement Services
✓ Environment, Health & Safety Improvement Services
✓ Building Investigation & Remediation Improvement Services
✓ Site Investigation & Remediation Improvement Services
✓ Acquisitions (& Capital Asset Management) Improvement Services
✓ Construction Loan Monitoring
✓ RF-EME Improvement Services
✓ Multifamily Agency Improvement Services
✓ Telecom Environmental Improvement Services
✓ Project Management Services
✓ Energy Star Scoring/Certification ✓ New Design MEP Commissioning ✓ Energy & Carbon Compliance Reporting ✓ Post-Occupancy & Warranty Review ✓ Blower Door Envelope Leakage Testing ✓ Measurement & Verification of Energy Systems ✓ Asbestos, lead, PCBs, & Other Hazardous Materials Inspection, Compliance & Permitting Services ✓ Mold & Moisture Inspection, Compliance, & Permitting Services ✓ Radon Inspection, Testing, & Compliance Services ✓ Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Inspection & Verification Services ✓ Water-Intrusion & Weather-Damage Restoration Closeout Certification & Legal/Insurance Support Services ✓ Abatement management, Oversight & Final Clearance Inspection ✓ Compliance Inspection & Reporting ✓ Construction Project, Hazardous Materials Abatement Closeout Certification ✓ Hazardous Materials, Operations & Maintenance (O&M) Program, Compliance Auditing ✓ Ongoing Program Compliance Audits ✓ On-Site Construction Monitoring ✓ Provide Subject Matter Expertise ✓ Provide Scope Validation✓ Energy & Sustainability Verification Services
✓ ESG Verification Services
✓ Environment, Health & Safety Verification Services
✓ Building Investigation & Remediation Verification Services
✓ Site Investigation & Remediation Verification Services
✓ Acquisitions (& Capital Asset Management) Services
✓ Construction Loan Monitoring Verification Services
✓ RF-EME Verification Services
✓ Traditional Due Diligence Improvement Services
✓ Multifamily Agency Verification Services
✓ Telecom Environmental Verification Services
✓ Project Management Services
DEEP EXPERTISE - NATIONAL COVERAGE
Our experts leverage our proprietary assessment methodologies, benchmarking, regulation and analytics tools across EBI’s six core capability domains to drive value for clients across the U.S.
Due diligence • Environmental, health and safety solutions • ESG, energy and sustainability solutions • Building and site investigation, hazardous waste remediation • Project management and engineering • Construction loan monitoring and engineering
We’ve got your built environment covered.
in environmental, health and safety consulting
SQUARE FEET EVALUATED
Nationwide
Coverage across the US
PROJECTS COMPLETED EACH YEAR
ASSETS EVALUATED
AVERAGE EXPERIENCE OF EBI PROFESSIONALS
testimonials
What our clients say
I have worked with EBI for over 15 years when financing for our Agency business. They deliver high quality reports in a timely manner and have a firm understanding of the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae guidelines. We rely on EBI’s experts to identify all important issues and provide the proper recommendations for our due diligence reports, including but not limited to Phase Is and PCAs. EBI continuously provides us with these services and an excellent understanding/ balance of business practicality and environmental and engineering capabilities.
Executive Vice President
Lending Institution
EBI has provided high quality cost and architectural reviews, environmental services, including Phase I and PCNAs, for Grandbridge over the last 10 years. The unique business perspective that EBI adds to its environmental due diligence of commercial properties has proven to be invaluable to our company. In dealing with complex environmental issues, EBI’s team of experts is able to identify the truly important issues from the less important ones. EBI provides an outstanding balance of business sensibility and environmental capabilities.
Vice President & FHA Chief Underwriter
Lending Institution
EBI has provided our company with high quality services for over five years. EBI’s team of experts have a firm understanding of HUD requirements to identify important issues and provide recommendations for resolution.
Senior Vice President
CRE Financing Institution
EBI has provided high quality cost and architectural reviews, environmental services, including Phase I and PCNAs, for [our firm] over the last 10 years. The unique business perspective that EBI adds to its environmental due diligence of commercial properties has proven to be invaluable to our company. In dealing with complex environmental issues, EBI’s team of experts is able to identify the truly important issues from the less important ones. EBI provides an outstanding balance of business sensibility and environmental capabilities.
Director of Project Management
Capital Provider & Consultancy Firm
Practice Leader
DEPTH OF EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE
DAN BALBO
Director – Agency Services
Dan Balbo joined EBI Consulting in 2010 and brings over 17 years’ experience in construction management, engineering design, project engineering, and property due diligence in the Real Estate/Multifamily lending industry.
As Director, Dan runs the Agency Services Practice (Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, and HUD) with personnel and clientele spanning the country. In his role, Dan manages the team, daily operations and staffing, is responsible for training programs, and oversees the various services provided to lender and investor clients by the Agency Services Team.
Dan earned a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from the University of New Hampshire, is a registered Engineer in Training, and has extensive training & certifications across OSHA compliance, ASTM standards, and multifamily lending.
Case studies
SUCCESS IN THE FIELD
Multiple multifamily properties, HUD environmental review
Multifamily property, Environmental Site Assessment, Freddie Mac requirements
Assisted living housing portfolio
Insights
INDUSTRY POINTS OF VIEW
Plan Avian Nest Surveys Before Field Work Begins
I encourage project teams to bring avian nest planning into the schedule before vegetation clearing, grading, or tower work begins. General bird nesting periods vary by species, location, and seasonal conditions, and nesting activity may occur outside commonly...
Plan Avian Nest Surveys Before Field Work Begins
I encourage project teams to bring avian nest planning into the schedule before vegetation clearing, grading, or tower work begins. General bird nesting periods vary by species, location, and seasonal conditions, and nesting activity may occur outside commonly...