Meeting Minutes - US Department of State
Meeting Minutes - US Department of State
Meeting Minutes - US Department of State
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up on us. It is a challenging solution, because a<br />
lot <strong>of</strong> these people have not seen anything like what<br />
we're putting in. You know, the embassy staff is<br />
probably as good as it gets in the country. So,<br />
we're trying to implement additional training.<br />
The chillers themselves, the controls on<br />
the chillers are now so smart, they're pretty much<br />
self-maintaining. There's not a whole lot <strong>of</strong> effort<br />
involved in keeping the chiller running at its<br />
designed requirements. The hard part is getting the<br />
people to understand that just because I've added<br />
the up button, doesn't mean that it's cooler now.<br />
It will be cooler you know, an hour from now. You<br />
know, you go home into your house and it's 4:00 in<br />
the afternoon in the middle <strong>of</strong> August and you're<br />
going, it's really hot. You push that button, it<br />
stays hot for three or four hours while the building<br />
catches up. You know, we have big buildings.<br />
So it's an ongoing challenge.<br />
MR. GLAVIS: One more in that regard. We<br />
are adjusting our building, shall we say, operation<br />
based on occupancy, where we used to just say gee<br />
whiz, run it all the time and then shut it <strong>of</strong>f<br />
during the weekends. That didn't work. That just<br />
created lots <strong>of</strong> mold problems.<br />
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