Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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conditioning system. So it's like getting half of
your requirement for free. It's designed so that
it's working all year long in the wintertime, when
we're making more heat than we need, you're taking
the air conditioning and using it for those pieces
of the buildings that would otherwise we would have
to run a chiller for.
Targeting highest efficiency for maximum
operating hours, again as George mentioned, we have
two gentlemen over here who are going to discuss
several pieces of this, so we'll kind of go quickly.
Minimizing use of proprietary systems, we
have an ongoing effort to do that. Again, because
we are not local to D.C., we're not local to
Cincinnati, some of this stuff is really hard to get
where we work and live. So we're trying to make
sure a commercial off-the-shelf is available. The
same with our building automation systems.
We are working with facilities to improve
the training that goes on for these. Actually,
trying to get some of our contractor or our vendors
to supply us with visual training so that it's an
ongoing available thing. If they're getting ready
to go work on a chiller, they pop the CD into the
thing and go oh, that's how I do that, instead of
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