by Shane Henson — May 6, 2013—Global facilities solutions provider ABM announced recently that its ABM Building Services business has been selected by Orange County, Virginia Public Schools to implement division-wide energy and infrastructure upgrades to the educational institution through ABM’s Bundled Energy Solutions Program. The project is expected to significantly improve the schools’ learning environment as a result of lighting, heating, cooling and indoor air quality upgrades, while saving Orange County Public Schools an estimated $9.3 million in energy and operating costs over 15 years, says ABM.
According to ABM, its Bundled Energy Solutions Program was developed as a financial solution to meet clients’ technical facility needs and sustainability goals. For ABM, the goal is to drive costs out of a client’s operating budget to allow savings to be reallocated to fund mission-critical facility needs.
The project is expected to reduce the school’s utility costs by 32 percent over 15 years. In addition, the project has no incremental capital cost and does not require any additional tax burden on the community or programmatic cuts for the school. The improvements are 100 percent funded through the existing operating budget and the results are guaranteed, says ABM.
The improvements will be made across the division’s 10 schools and buildings. Energy-efficiency upgrades include: installing new high-efficiency light-emitting diode (LED) lights, considerably reducing energy usage; replacing heating and cooling systems, improving indoor air quality and reducing humidity problems; and implementing an energy-efficient PC power management solution by putting unused computers in a low power state, saving energy and prolonging the lifetime of the information technology (IT) equipment.
In addition to working with educational institutions, ABM partners with companies of all sizes looking to reduce their energy consumption and minimize their carbon footprint. According to ABM, it is able to implement measures that typically pay for themselves in less than two years.
