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We foundthe overcharge.That’s why
WST exists.

GRESB Certified Partner

Solution Provider Partner

All WST outputs structured for direct GRESB submission — WT1, MR3, RA4

Institutional Focus

REITs & Asset Managers

Portfolio-level water intelligence formatted for IC, LP, and ESG audiences

Business Model

Shared-Savings Only

Zero upfront — WST is compensated on verified, documented outcomes only

Headquarters

Fort Lauderdale, FL

200 S. Andrews Avenue, Suite 504 — Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301

Water Solutions Technology · Est. Fort Lauderdale · Institutional Water Advisory

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The Origin

A 31-asset hotel REIT.
Four years of
invisible overcharges.

The portfolio had genuine, documented water improvements in the field. Consumption was down. GRESB scores hadn’t moved. The water bills weren’t reflecting what was actually happening inside the buildings.

When we looked at the billing records, the utility had been charging sewer fees on 100% of metered consumption — including all the water that had evaporated from the cooling towers and never entered the sewer. It had been overcharging the portfolio for four years. The property managers had no idea. The REIT had no visibility. The asset managers had never been told it was possible to ask for a credit.

That’s what WST was built to find. The savings that are already there, already earned, already sitting in the billing records — waiting for someone who knows how to ask for them back.

“Most portfolios we engage with have been paying water costs they didn’t owe. The question is never whether the overcharge exists — it’s how far back it goes.”

Water is the only major operating expense in commercial real estate that has no institutional oversight infrastructure. Energy has ENERGY STAR. Carbon has GHG protocols and dedicated reporting frameworks. Water has a utility bill that arrives monthly and gets paid without analysis.

The result: rate misclassifications that compound for years. Sewer charges on evaporated water that never entered the municipal system. Billing multiplier errors. Tier misapplications. Cooling tower make-up volumes charged at potable rates when reclaimed rates apply. Each category invisible in isolation. Together, they represent 8–12% of the average commercial property’s annual water bill — recoverable, retroactively, in most US jurisdictions for three to five years.

WST built a systematic methodology for finding these overcharges, documenting them in the format institutional portfolios need, and recovering them at the portfolio level. The same data that produces the billing recovery produces the GRESB water indicator documentation. The same IoT monitoring that controls the cooling tower blowdown rate generates the MR3 and RA4 evidence. Everything is designed to serve the institutional output, not the other way around.

Clifford Campbell, Managing Partner · Water Solutions Technology

The Partners

The principals behind
every WST engagement.

WST is a two-partner boutique. Every client relationship is led directly by Clifford or Jody — not delegated to analysts or junior consultants. You engage the principals. They deliver the work.

Clifford Campbell

Managing Partner

“Every portfolio we’ve engaged has had recoverable water savings it didn’t know about. The methodology to find them isn’t complicated. The institutional infrastructure to document and present them — that’s what WST built.”

Clifford leads WST’s institutional advisory practice, working directly with REITs, asset managers, and LP audiences on portfolio-level water strategy. His focus: translating field performance into the financial language that matters to institutional audiences — NOI improvement, cap rate asset value, GRESB score impact, and LP-disclosable outcomes.

His core belief, developed across years of commercial water system engagement, is that water cost exposure in institutional real estate is systematically underreported — not because the performance isn’t there, but because the documentation infrastructure to present it doesn’t exist at most portfolios. WST’s entire methodology is built around closing that gap.

Clifford holds the GRESB Solution Provider Partner designation and leads all IC presentation preparation, portfolio-level programme design, and REIT and asset manager relationships.

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Jody Ashton

Partner of Operations

“The financial outcomes Clifford structures at the advisory level only matter if they’re actually delivered in the field. My job is to make sure the numbers presented to an LP are the numbers that show up in the utility ledger.”

Jody leads WST’s operational delivery practice, overseeing programme execution, field engagement management, and the technical advisory relationships that underpin WST’s service quality. Her approach is systematic and process-driven — ensuring that every engagement delivers with the precision the institutional reporting environment demands.

Her operational expertise spans billing forensics, cooling tower programme management, sewer exemption filing, and IoT sensor deployment coordination. She leads all client engagements in the healthcare and educational institution sectors, where WST’s 25.8% average monthly water reduction has been most consistently documented.

Jody is the primary contact for all field-level engineering engagements, utility relationship management, and regulatory filing. She manages the operational quality of every active WST programme.

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Verified Outcomes

Named institutions.
Documented results.

Drawn from disclosed sustainability programmes, published case data, and verified WST engagements. No anonymised projections. No estimated ranges. Every number on this page has been documented.

Hospitality REIT — WST Engagement

Leading Hotel REIT
31 Assets, $3.5B+ AUM

$2.3M

Annual verified water savings

25.3% water reduction, 31 assets. GRESB 4-star, 86/100. Savings documented for LP disclosure. Billing overcharge recovery initiated retroactively.

Office REIT — Sustainability Programme

Boston Properties
BXP — S&P 500

$34M

Annual avoided OpEx — disclosed

Cooling tower filtration contributed to 27% energy and 30% water reduction vs. 2008 baseline. A permanent annual reduction to the cost base — not a one-time project.

Office REIT — Technical Services ROI

Vornado Realty Trust
VNO — NYSE

4.6×

Year-one return on investment

$126K technical services investment identified $580K in annual savings. Year-one ROI: 4.6×. Separate $6M capital programme generated $260K annual cooling savings.

Office REIT — IoT & Retrocommissioning

Kilroy Realty
KRC — NYSE

$7.1M

Asset value created at 5.5% cap rate

32-story tower: 847 IoT sensors, AI setpoint optimisation, $392K annual HVAC savings. At 5.5% cap, the annual saving translates to $7.1M in permanent asset value.

At a 5.5% cap rate, every $90K in annual water savings equals $1.6M in asset value. The Kilroy case is the institutional proof of concept. The WST hospitality REIT engagement is the replication at portfolio scale.

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The Programme

Five capabilities.
One institutional output.

Every WST service is designed to serve the same end: documented, verified savings formatted for NOI presentation, GRESB submission, and LP disclosure.

Ara AI — Utility Bill Intelligence

AI-powered extraction of billing anomalies across any provider format. $42K average recovery per portfolio. GRESB WT1 documentation as standard output.

Cooling Tower Optimisation

CoC recalibration, sewer exemption filing, biofilm management. 20–45% make-up water reduction. Zero upfront. LEED v4.1 credits achievable.

Smart Water Monitoring — IoT

Real-time sensor networks. 8-month average payback. Cost-tagged anomaly detection within 48 hours. MR3 & RA4 evidence generated automatically.

GRESB Compliance & Strategy

End-to-end WT1, MR3, RA4 documentation. 76→84 score lift demonstrated. Submission-ready — not adapted from operations reports.

Smart Water Recovery — Billing & Rebates

Sewer exemption filing, retroactive recovery (3–5 years), rebate identification. 32 programmes across 10 states. Shared-savings — paid from outcomes.

Core Values

How we show up.
In every engagement.

Principles that guide how we build, serve, and lead — inside WST and with every client relationship we enter.

A Note from the Founders

Before any of the financial frameworks, the methodology, or the GRESB credentials, there is a foundational belief that every good thing we build is built on something greater than ourselves. We believe in YHVH — the one true Almighty — and that when we walk in His ways, success follows. That conviction shapes how we treat clients, how we treat our work, and how we measure what matters. We mention it not to impose it, but because we think the people we work with deserve to know what we’re built on.

— Clifford Campbell & Jody Ashton, WST

Remember Others

We thrive best when we show genuine kindness and support. The best work we do serves people beyond the transaction.

Keep Growing

Be courageous. Make mistakes. Stay curious. Growth is an endless pursuit — in technology, methodology, and thinking.

Speak the Truth

Honesty and clarity build trust. We present outcomes accurately — verified data, not projected estimates.

Be a Team Player

Collaboration produces more value than individual effort — inside WST and across every client relationship.

Client Priority

We measure success by what the portfolio manager can show to their LP — not by internal metrics.

Advisory Network

Backed by proven
industry expertise.

A focused group whose specific expertise directly informs how WST works — in environmental engineering, flow dynamics, energy systems, and utility expense management.

Dr. Danuta Leszczynska

Environmental Engineering

Jackson State University

Advanced water treatment technologies, contamination remediation, and emerging water quality methodologies informing WST’s chemical programme design.

Dr. Oliver Jones

Energy Innovation

Source Energy Global

Energy-water nexus expertise bridging cooling system optimisation with energy storage and building electrification strategy.

Jeff Chalfin

Flow Dynamics & Metering

Flow Dynamics LLC

Commercial metering system selection, flow accuracy validation, and IoT deployment design across large-scale commercial portfolio engagements.

Marc Freedman

Utility Expense Management

Expense to Profit

Billing error recovery methodology and systematic utility expense management informing WST’s multi-state retroactive filing practice.

Your portfolio has recoverable
savings it doesn’t know about.
We’ll find them.

A 90-minute WST portfolio review maps the water cost exposure across your assets, identifies applicable billing programmes and rebates in your jurisdictions, and formats the aggregate NOI impact for investment committee presentation. Shared-savings model — zero upfront, paid from verified outcomes only.

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We foundthe overcharge.That’s whyWST exists.

A 31-asset hotel REIT.Four years ofinvisible overcharges.

The principals behindevery WST engagement.

Named institutions.Documented results.

Five capabilities.One institutional output.

How we show up.In every engagement.

Backed by provenindustry expertise.

Your portfolio has recoverablesavings it doesn’t know about.We’ll find them.