Meeting Minutes - US Department of State
Meeting Minutes - US Department of State
Meeting Minutes - US Department of State
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usage or water handling maintenance type <strong>of</strong> problem<br />
is an advantage to air-cooled systems.<br />
GENERAL WILLIAMS: Okay. Greg?<br />
MR. KNOOP: Well, a key interest is a<br />
building is a living organism and it's going to go<br />
on for many years. So are we seeing that this has a<br />
lifecycle benefit from its maintainability? Is it<br />
easy to educate the persons who have to operate and<br />
maintain it? That's where we'd want to see the<br />
benefit because once we get past the first purchase,<br />
it's the post who owns the responsibility to keep<br />
that thing running.<br />
MR. GLAVIS: Absolutely. Excellent<br />
question, Greg. I came out <strong>of</strong> the maintenance side<br />
here and moved over to design. So I relate directly<br />
to what you are worried about. If we can simplify<br />
it, keep it smaller, eliminate all the extra<br />
ancillary functions such as water treatment, that<br />
sort <strong>of</strong> thing, you're not scaling up your system.<br />
You're not trying to run things incorrectly.<br />
The modular approach has one distinct<br />
advantage. If I can look at one, shall we say small<br />
component, and I can master that, then stacking them<br />
in line is easy and anybody can look at that and<br />
understand from one modular and the others just<br />
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