Among facilities managers, on a lev...

Among facilities managers, on a level the soundest sleepers may be tormented at night by dint of this bad dream: an advanced in years building is leaking energy like a sieve; in individual zone people are too icy in another they're too irascible and in a third region all lights are burning and conditioned air is circulating allowing no one is there.

The worst part of this nightmare is waking up to a reality that is not a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of better.

Outdated boilers, chillers, HVAC and lighting plans are greedily consuming power, and utility meter are spinning at peak-demand rates. What remains of the public's goodwill is flying without the windows along with tax dollars.

At city hall or the courthouse, officials feeling the roll pinch are calling on all departments to divide [i]or[/i] sever costs while maintaining services. force costs make an obvious target, since taken as a single item they are frequently second only to ...