22 Members of FESS Receive Employee Performance Recognition Awards
Last Thursday, Mike Witherell presented Employee Performance
Recognition Awards to 22 members of the Facilities Engineering
Services Section for their hard work implementing DOE's Utilities
Incentive Program at Fermilab. UIP allows utilities companies
and DOE facilities to invest in energy-saving measures that will
pay for themselves in 10 years or less. Since FESS joined the program
in 1998, Fermilab has invested nearly $60 million in new infrastructure
and other projects.
"One of the special things about this program is its breadth,"
Witherell said at the ceremony Thursday. "There's hardly any
part of the lab that hasn't been affected by this."
Awards went to: Mike Becker, Denis Bowron, Steve Dixon, Linda Finks,
Al Flowers, Ron Foutch, Jack Furlong, Maria Galvez, Martha Garcia,
Greg Gilbert, Emil Huedem, Robert Huite, Tom Kraus, Cedric Madison,
Mel Magnuson, MIke Michalak, Greg Mitchell, Merle Olson, Joe Pathiyil,
Ted Thorson, Cliff Worby, and David Yueng
Utility Incentive Program
The Utility Incentive Program (UIP) started in 1998 with a
$3.5M chiller replacement project to assist in meeting the
increased cooling requirements for the Main Injector.
This project resulted in a four-year payback from the
energy savings alone and was published as a DOE Federal
Energy Management Program (FEMP) case study. Additional
operating savings were realized as well as many other
reliability improvements to this critical infrastructure system.
The success of this project was the catalyst for development of
a site-wide program that started in 1999 and recently completed
during this last accelerator shutdown in 2003. During this time
period, 41 additional energy-saving projects were completed.
The total contract value of this effort was nearly $60 million.
In addition to creating real operating savings that pay for this
utility company financed program, Fermilab has enhanced site-wide
energy efficiency, improved infrastructure reliability, reduced
maintenance costs and eliminated many system vulnerabilities.
Most significant was rehabilitation of the Central Utility Building
(this was recently featured in Fermi Today) and a utility corridor
from CDF to DZero that brought domestic water, industrial cooling water,
natural gas and sanitary to critical laboratory facilities. These energy
efficiency and infrastructure projects were completed across all divisions
and sections. This lab wide effort involved the DOE Fermi Area Office,
building managers, facility and safety personnel from all divisions and
sections, and FESS personnel.
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