How it works
DCFR helps land teams, brokers, developers, and investors screen up to 20 candidate sites, compare early feasibility signals, and select one parcel for a coordinated development decision report. Review the assumptions, compare the findings, and identify what must be confirmed next.
DCFR is optimized for U.S. sites. International screening depends on adequate local site and infrastructure data. Qualified local professionals and authorities must confirm code, fire, land-use, utility, environmental, and permitting requirements.
Workflow
Submit up to 20 candidate locations with the best available project information. Identify unknowns so they remain visible in the review.
Customer provides
Each candidate is evaluated against the same planning criteria, making differences and information gaps easier to compare.
DCFR reviews
Use the comparison to shortlist, reject, or hold candidates for confirmation. Screening and detailed analysis runs are subject to your plan’s monthly allowance.
Customer receives
Choose a shortlisted site for a full feasibility report. The seven-module analysis develops its capacity, constraints, development options, and next steps.
Selected full report includes
What you receive
Compare candidates first, then develop a full report for a selected site.
Output 01
Compare up to 20 candidates and see which sites merit deeper review.
Compare strengths, constraints, and missing evidence across sites.
What you receive
Output 02
Develop one selected site into a seven-module planning report.
A coordinated report with findings, risks, and next confirmations.
What you receive
Use the report
Eight ways to move from candidate sites to a clearer land decision.
Compare
See multiple candidate sites side by side before choosing one.
Filter
Spot major constraints early and avoid spending diligence on poor fits.
Prioritize
Identify the sites that deserve deeper review.
Identify risk
See utility, access, stormwater, and support-yard concerns.
Estimate
Check whether the target load appears reasonable for the site, or estimate a range when no target is given.
Confirm
Bring specific questions to consultants, utilities, and authorities.
Align
Give the team a shared basis for acquisition discussions.
Decide
Document the reasons and open questions before a letter of intent or land commitment.
Review categories
Submitted acreage, scenario-based building and support-yard demand, and circulation, stormwater and expansion allowances. Surveyed boundaries and physical site fit require separate confirmation.
Power, utility, cooling, water, generator, electrical yard, fuel, and infrastructure confirmation risks.
Parking, loading, truck/service movement, fire/service access, equipment replacement path, and security entry assumptions.
Stormwater reserve, sensitive edges, noise exposure, buffer requirements, zoning/code/AHJ exposure, environmental and civil confirmation items.
Energy and heat-rejection scenarios, water-strategy questions and materials considerations for follow-up. Project-specific sustainability scoring or certification review is separate.
Planning-level risk signals, likely next-step consultant needs, confirmation register, decision path, and handoff materials.
Methodology
Five clear sources behind every early site decision.
After the DCFR report
DCFR identifies these questions in the report and tells your team what evidence to request next. The organizations listed below make the final determinations.
Confirmed by: Utility provider
Confirmed by: Local planning and building authorities
Confirmed by: Civil engineer and local agencies
Confirmed by: Surveyor and specialist consultants
Confirmed by: Fire authority and design professionals
Confirmed by: Contractor and project team
Confirmed by: Approving authorities
DCFR is a planning report. It does not issue utility commitments, stamped designs, legal opinions, prices, or permits.
Clear analysis boundaries
Quantified operating and embodied carbon, tariff-based operating costs, heat-reuse economics, and integrated alternative ranking are not included as validated calculations in the standard report.
These require local emissions factors, equipment performance, tariffs, material quantities, heat demand, and independent technical review. No carbon reduction, savings, or heat-sale revenue is guaranteed.
Start with your candidate locations and the project information you already have.
