EMR Wins Energy Savings Performance Contract for NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center Building
ARLINGTON, Va., -- EMR, a long-time
provider of facility maintenance management services to the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, was recently selected to establish
a pilot energy savings performance contract (ESPC) that will significantly
reduce energy use and increase operations and maintenance savings
at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Building.
An ESPC initiates the most cost-effective
alterations to a building 's lighting, heating, ventilation and air
conditioning systems and other energy-using equipment to reduce energy
consumption and prevent pollution. The energy savings that result
from these changes are then used to cover the cost of equipment financing
and installation.
This pilot project is an exciting step
toward total energy management at NASA,says Naresh Khosla, president
of EMR. Based on our findings from Building 8, we are looking forward
to making many more of NASA's facilities energy wise for the future.
Building 8 is a six-story 64,400-square-foot
facility that houses 272 employees. It includes a printing/publication
facility, photography, television and graphic studios, offices, a
video teleconferencing center and an auditorium, as well as rooms
for mechanical and electrical equipment.
Following an extensive survey of the
building, EMR established a baseline measurement from which to make
system and equipment improvements. The company then recommended 42
energy conservation measures to upgrade the building's systems.
The measures involve installing energy
saving fluorescent lamps, replacing existing ballasts with electronic
ballasts, changing out incandescent lamps with halogen or compact
fluorescent lamps, installing occupancy sensors to control lighting
and replacing existing exit signs with more efficient LED-type exit
signs.
In the past, EMR has provided extensive
facilities support to every NASA center in the United States.
For more information regarding this
or any other EMR energy management project, contact Kate Kelly at
(323) 874-3458, or at kkellyemr@aol.com.
