Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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in the United States. To be able to do this
overseas, especially the heating, ventilation, and
air conditioning portion, is extremely challenging.
So our goals are as you see. Make it simple, cost
efficient, smaller, trying to conserve floor space
within our buildings, maximize reliability, maintain
security, and be environmentally responsive.
To that end, we've implemented several
ongoing initiatives. This is one that I actually
just witnessed. The two pictures here actually
involve the picture of a methodology that we're
trying to encourage our contractors, our general
contractors to do. It's a skid mounting of
equipment. Skid mounting means that you take major
pieces and components and organizations of
equipment, put it onto some sort of a framework that
can then be shipped as a whole overseas.
So actually let's talk about the bottom
picture first. This is a 3-D view of the upper
system. During the initial review, this information
was transmitted to the contractor. They recognized
some challenges. They knew this was going to right
up against a wall so they said, oh gee, the piping
here in it turns out to be the bottom left-hand
corner, you see two pipes sticking straight up, they
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