Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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up the quality, guess what? The warranties come up.
So we're looking at some firms out there today that
are giving us warranties such as you get with your
refrigerators and your air conditioning systems at
home. A five-year warranty, just like you have on
your car. You buy something like that, you expect
it to last and those people should stand behind
those kind of warranties, and some of these firms
do.
When we start looking at a percentage of
the building, we're building our percentage way down
from what was industry standards down to about five
percent of the total gross building space for all of
our HVAC. This is significant because we are
looking at small, medium, and large embassies and
the very specialty smaller embassies. And we're
still getting these things down to five percent of
gross space. And that's the total HVAC.
When you look at the enhanced security for
protecting against chemicals, biological and
radiological threats, those portions of this are
about a half a percent of the building in space,
less than one percent in cost. We're still looking
at some of the, shall we say, significant features
of the cost drivers, we're saying, okay, let's get a
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