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UTILITIES & PLANT ENGINEERING Chiller Plant Upgrade Provides Over $1 Million in Utility Savings by Mark Mau, P.E. in a net $1 million savings for the year. It is expected that with a full season of operation, the savings next year will be even higher. 1300 ton electric centrifugal chiller Last spring, a project to add a new high efficiency electrical chiller to the East University Chiller Plant was completed. In less than one season, the chiller plant more than met savings expectations. The project was conceived and commissioned by Utilities and Plant Engineering, designed and constructed by Architecture Engineering and Construction, and funded through Facilities and Operations. Project challenges included keeping chilled water running to all the customer buildings while adding the new chiller to the plant system, then getting the total system up and running a full load. Several key Plant Operations staff kept things running during this transition; Mike Konwin (AC Chiller Systems), Dan Stroebel (DDC Controls) and Jim Beachum (DDC Controls). Nick Panzica (AC Chiller Systems) provided chilled water from the interconnected Hatcher Chiller Plant during the transition. Mark Mau and Jay Russell provided project engineering expertise. The same Skilled Trades and engineering team will be instrumental in the next large centrifugal chiller installation project taking place at the Chemistry building. The East University Chiller Plant, located beneath the Dennison courtyard, provides year-around chilled water cooling for Dana, Randall, West Hall, East Hall, Denison, Pharmacy, and CC Little. The plant contained three 1240 ton steam absorption chillers until last spring, when a new 1300 ton electric centrifugal chiller was added. When it gets warm enough outside to require a chiller, the new chiller is the first one to be turned on and the last one to be turned off. This operating strategy of utilizing the high efficiency of an electric centrifugal chiller resulted in slightly higher electrical consumption, but the huge steam cost savings resulted $1 million in EUCP steam usage savings for the year 4
Welcome Brian Ventura, Our Newest Plant Engineer by J.W. Krantz I am very happy to announce that Brian Ventura, P.E., is now a member of Utilities & Plant Engineering. Brian was selected from a group of 148 applicants, including three different reduction rounds. He brings over 32 years of experience in engineering, as well as extensive experience in HVAC design and operation. He is a State of Michigan licensed mechanical engineer and educational accomplishments include a B.S.N.E degree from the University of Michigan. He will begin with responsibilities within the North Campus area. FACILITIES MAINTENANCE Service Level Agreements by Lowell Hanson $29,000 $65,000 FACILITIES MAINTENANCE FY 10 - Q2 SLA Revenue $1,631,481 Active $27,920 $12,000 $5,000 $11,500 $8,366 $484,000 $299,775 SLA Revenue Trend Over Time $2,000,000 $1,500,000 $1,000,000 $500,000 $- FY 09 Q4 FY 10 Q1 FY 10 Q2 Series1 Since FY 08 SLA revenue has increased from $877,358 to $1,631,481 – a gain of nearly $754,123 or 86%. $231,920 $200,000 $15,000 $180,000 $5,000 $23,000 $9,000 $25,000 $300,000 $112,500 $25,000 5025 Venture Drive U:\Plant Exchange FM Articles\Quarterly SLA Revenue Report 2 2-23-2010 rev.xlsxCharts FY 10 2-23-2010 AEC Arbor Lakes-ITS-Bldg3 AHU BSRB Icemakers DPS-MOSCAD Ford Library Housing ICLE MAIS MCIT MITC-MACC OSEH/Fire Ext Shop Palmer Commons Food Svc Ops Ross School of Business Stamps Auditorium Student Publications In Development $484,000 In Development $33,000 $5,500 North Quad Stockwell Brehm-NIB-Kellogg NCRC Keys: Phase I MAIS/Arbor Lakes #2 Computer Room A/C Since 2000, the State of Michigan continues to reduce the General Fund dollars for Facilities Maintenance (FM). Our department’s General Fund allocation has gone from $21.9 million or $1.71/GSF to $29.4 million or 1.99/GSF in FY 2009. However, 2 million GSF has been added to our campus! Adjusted for inflation over this period, the FM budget is presently at 1.49/GSF. FM has worked proactively to make up this shortfall by securing customer pay work through Service Level Agreements (SLAs). SLA’s are tailored to specific services desired by our customer which the General Fund does not cover, or in cases of University Auxiliary units, work obtainable from different sources such as external vendors. A significant strength of our SLA business is our work order system and our abilities to pre-plan and schedule work activities. Within our customer meetings and reviews, we report back to the customer on SLA performance accomplishments and include detailed cost accountability. Since 2008, the number of SLAs has increased at a steady pace. We have nearly twenty active SLAs, and with U-M’s ever expanding campus, we have several under development. The graph provided excludes the Hospital SLA, the largest of our service agreements at $11 million. The graph shows the growing FM SLA portfolio and budget. For FY 10, we expect 44% of our FM employee base to be supported by customer pay and SLA work activities. 5
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