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Facilities Services
Utilities Management
One of our primary goals in Utilities Management is to acquire utilities from our vendors for the best possible price. The department strives to achieve this by implementing various programs to keep our utility costs as low as we possibly can. This is accomplished by utilizing several programs, including the following:
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Turning air conditioners and air handlers off automatically when areas are not occupied for a period of time, such as overnight. |
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Turning lights, in mechanical equipment rooms and other areas, off when they are not occupied. |
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Reducing the power to hall, room and area lighting in off peak times, evenings and nights. |
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Replacing fluorescent light fixtures with modern fixtures with technologically advanced ballasts, and installing energy saving fluorescent light tubes. |
Most of our utilities are purchased from U of M campus, Detroit Edison, Michcon and Ann Arbor City Water and Sewer. The utilities we consume on a daily basis are water, natural gas, steam and electricity. One way we are working to keep our costs down is by purchasing electrical energy through campus, from Detroit Edison, to get a bulk rate discount by buying a large volume of electricity. Campus Utilities acts as a power/energy broker selling to us at a lower rate than us buying directly from Detroit Edison. |
Systems Monitoring is the department, of Utilities Management, that keeps the cost saving programs under close scrutiny. Trending data, analyzing data, and making sure the programs run as specified are a small portion of Systems Monitoring's daily, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, activities. Analyzing alarms from equipment in the field and determining the proper
action to take on the alarms is the priority function. |
The Autoclave Technologies Unit is the newest part of Utilities Management. Formerly known as Waste Heat Recovery, A.T.U. and their autoclave will be replacing the Incinerator. The rotary autoclave will be used to treat the medical waste by sterilizing the waste and then grinding it to a predetermined size to eliminate bulk. Since the demise of the incinerator, an alternative method to the proper handling of waste had to found. |
A couple of the past programs that have been instituted at the hospital are the Green Lights Program and the Energy Star Buildings Program. They both were great successes that continue to benefit the hospital buildings. |
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