by Brianna Crandall — February 20, 2015—Facility solutions provider ABM was awarded two major contracts recently, one by Harley-Davidson Motor Company and the other by the Town of West Boylston in Massachusetts.
Harley-Davidson Motor Company
ABM was awarded a multi-phased, integrated facility solutions contract by Harley-Davidson Motor Company, continuing ABM’s expansion into critical industrial and manufacturing space. Under the terms of the multi-year contract, ABM’s Facility Services business has taken on a consultative role in phase one of the agreement.
ABM’s team is working on-site at Harley-Davidson’s Milwaukee-based corporate headquarters and at its Wauwatosa-based product development center—where the company’s motorcycles are designed and tested—to immerse itself in Harley-Davidson’s culture. The goal in phase one is to identify opportunities to reduce operating expenses while helping ensure Harley-Davidson’s facility services are performed in a world-class fashion.
“We are excited to begin working with Harley-Davidson, a name that has stood the test of time,” said ABM Facility Services President Mike Latham. “We realized early on in our discussions with Harley-Davidson that it was important to them to partner with a company who understands their culture implicitly. This is a measured approach and one we’ve successfully partnered on with other clients.”
West Boylston, MA
The company’s ABM Building Solutions business will complete this month a multimillion dollar contract of extensive energy and facility improvements to government and school buildings throughout the Town of West Boylston in Massachusetts. ABM’s Bundled Energy Solutions program guarantees that the project will save West Boylston at least $4.1 million in energy and operating costs over the next 15 years.
ABM’s Bundled Energy Solutions program is designed as a financial solution to meet clients’ technical facility needs and sustainability goals. ABM’s goal is to drive costs out of a client’s operating budget, allowing savings to be reallocated to fund mission-critical facility needs. ABM says its program enabled West Boylston to fund nearly $3 million worth of capital improvements on essential equipment in the town’s buildings, without added burden to local taxpayers or cuts to their services or educational programs.
Energy-efficiency improvements included high-efficiency LED lighting and building envelope upgrades as well as retro-commissioning of heating/ventilation/air-conditioning (HVAC) equipment at the West Boylston Middle/High School, Major Edwards Elementary School, the Public Safety Building and Department of Public Works.
The replacement of outdated control systems and installment of power management systems gives administrators the ability to optimize and regulate energy use throughout the schools, while the replacement of oil-fired boilers with new, cost-effective gas boilers is estimated to produce savings of more than $100,000 in the very first year, says ABM.
“ABM’s Bundled Energy Solutions program clears out many items on our Capital Investment Board’s list of future projects, many of which may not have come to fruition otherwise,” said Kevin McCormick, chairman of the West Boylston Board of Selectmen. “If the Town wanted to make these improvements outside of ABM’s Bundled Energy Solutions program, we would need to fund it with overrides, by cuts to our municipal budgets which provide important services to our townspeople, or by taking money from our over-extended Capital Investment Fund.”
ABM was selected for the project because of its ability to self-perform each of the improvements, and strong endorsements from officials of surrounding towns that had completed similar improvements with ABM.
ABM provides facility solutions through approximately 118,000 employees in over 300 offices throughout the United States and various international locations. ABM’s comprehensive capabilities include facilities engineering, commercial cleaning, energy solutions, HVAC, electrical, landscaping, parking and security, provided through stand-alone or integrated solutions. ABM provides custom facility solutions in urban, suburban and rural areas to properties of all sizes—from schools and hospitals to the largest and most complex facilities, such as manufacturing plants and major airports. ABM Industries Incorporated, which operates through its subsidiaries, was founded in 1909.
