2011 FMXcellence Honorees - Recent Threads

Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools - Sustainability

Ed Sullivan — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 23:37:59 GMT

The Charlotte Mecklenburg School District’s strategic plan is to reduce all utility consumption by 20%, solid waste by 5%, and pollutants by 20% by the year 2014 and to hit those goals on a cost neutral basis.

Click here to find out how facility strategies are playing a key role in achieving those goals.

Click here for a presentation on the sustainability program at Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools.

Hays Consolidated Independent School District - Energy Management

Ed Sullivan — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 23:31:32 GMT

The Hayes Consolidated Independent School District has held electric consumption flat even as the building square feet jumped 75 percent.

Click here to learn what steps Hays took and how the district is reinvesting the money that would have gone to pay for electricity.

Click here for management reports and documentation of results.

Oklahoma Department of Central Services, Office of Facilities Management - Sustainability

Ed Sullivan — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:36:03 GMT

The Office of Facilities Management (OFM) within the Oklahoma Department of Central Services ramped up its energy efficiency and sustainability efforts in 2008 with the creation of an Energy unit within FM. Since then, FM has gone after everything from low-hanging fruit to LEED Gold certification and renewable energy.

Click here to find out how OFM has cut energy use by 17 percent while undertaking other sustainability efforts.

Click here for a State of Efficiency newsletter, plus goals, results and challenges

PNC Financial Services Group - Signage Conversion After Major Acquisition

Ed Sullivan — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:31:58 GMT

In 2009, an acquisition doubled the footprint of the PNC Financial Services Group. It was an enormous task to convert signage - 26,000 new signs for roughly 1,640 branches, ATMs, and office/administrative facilities, in 9 states at a cost of more than $50,000,000.

Click here to read about how the project was brought in on schedule and at lower average price than the last major signage purchase.

Click here for photos of some of the major signs (Exhibit A)

Click here for a roster of key in-house participants (Exhibit B)

Click here for the range of signage and ATM hardware used (Exhibit C)

Click here for the project schedule (Exhibit D)

Click here for the Site Review and Release Procedure (Exhibit E)

Click here for elements from the signage recommendation package created for each site (Exhibit F)

Click here for the signage energy efficiency study (Exhibit G)

Click here for an example of the weekly team meeting agenda (Exhibit H)

Western Michigan University - Sustainability

Ed Sullivan — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:29:41 GMT

The facility department at the Western Michigan University has a longstanding commitment to sustainability. That commitment moved to an even higher level beginning in 2008, when the College of Health and Human Services building earned LEED for Existing Buildings Gold certification. Today, Western Michigan University has a broad array of efforts to improve sustainability in operations.

Click here to find out how FM has reduced total energy consumption by 18 percent over the past 14 years, , while embarking on other sustainability measures.