Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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type of thing. Do you see any savings there as
well? Any advantage of the air-cooled approach?
MS. SORG: General Williams, we do a lot of
condominium buildings, which is the highest rate of
litigation in the building industry and a lot of
those are going to air-cooled because of that issue.
Fewer parts, fewer things go wrong.
GENERAL WILLIAMS: Okay. Yes, Greg?
MR. KNOOP: We also have resource
responsibility and what is our message out to the
host countries? Are we energy hogs, are we resource
hogs, or are we the representatives of something, a
higher ideal? And I think it's important that the
post get the message of what kind of green
buildings, are energy efficient buildings out there
to the host country and to the people who visit our
post.
So, I think there is a powerful impact, a
powerful message, not just the economics, but the
diplomatic support that our buildings provide to the
diplomats.
GENERAL WILLIAMS: Yes, that's very good.
Another very interesting point because we do have to
be concerned about the host country, regardless of
how underdeveloped it may be. We still are guests
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