Case Study: Georgia Tech

The Georgia Institute of Technology received permission from the state of Georgia to enter into a Guaranteed Energy Savings Performance Contract (GESPC) and receive a $7.7 million loan to tackle any energy and water conservation project it wanted—as long as the project could pay for itself within seven years. Donald P. Alexander, P.E., Georgia Tech’s facilities design and construction Institute engineer, and his project team, Greg Spiro, P.E., senior mechanical design engineer, and Ben Mason, associate director of energy, determined that the funding would make the greatest impact spent on improving the efficiency of the university’s two chiller plants…

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