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Advertisement School District is Greener with Energy-Saving Building Controls Automated Logic’s building control system reduces energy consumption and operating costs for Green Bay School District. ike many public entities today faced with tighter the district; now it operates at the district’s lowest. Over the years, the district has instituted numerous conoperating budgets and mandates to reduce energy consumption, the Green Bay Area Public School Dis- servation strategies, including building pre-cooling, setpoint trict was looking for ways to reduce costs while still optimization, boiler modulation and demand reduction. (With maintaining a comfortable environment for students and staff. support from Focus on Energy SM, the state’s energy information In 2003, the district launched and services partnership, Chrisan aggressive program combintens piloted a demand-limiting ing energy-saving projects with chiller control strategy at one student and employee awareness school that was implemented at instruction. In just five years, it six others.) Hallway lighting is set saved nearly 19.8 million kWh of to class schedules, and classroom electricity, 2.3 million therms of lighting is controlled by occunatural gas and $4.4 million in pancy sensors. public funds. “We continue to modify con“The district began with a trol sequences for all equipment number of objectives: reduced at our installations. And with energy consumption, improved Automated Logic’s EIKON® Logair quality, cost savings, system icBuilder, a programming tool integration and expandability,” used to create, test and verify said Scott Richards, ALCcontrol logic, we’re able to try out Wisconsin Senior Sales Engineer. any sequence we can think of,” “It first chose Automated Logic Christens added. “We have full access to the software for an elementary school and The district, which serves over and can see down to the program, three high schools, all major 20,000 students and includes 36 renovation projects, for two key schools, has not only reduced so we can troubleshoot in a reasons—installation costs and energy costs, but has also lightmatter of minutes.” the ease of use of WebCTRL®, ened the district’s environmental ALC’s Web-based building footprint. Millions of pounds of automation system.” coal and natural gas have been Jeff Christens, responsible for the district’s DDC systems, conserved, and over 71 million pounds of CO2 emissions have is pleased with the savings and the ease of use WebCTRL pro- been prevented from entering the atmosphere. vides. “We have full access to the software and can see down to With Automated Logic building control systems now the program, so we can troubleshoot in a matter of minutes,” installed in nearly half of all schools as well as the adminisChristens stated. “Finding the cause of a problem is reduced trative office building, the district’s efforts have helped make to a fraction of the time compared to other systems. And by Green Bay a greener place to live, work and learn. keeping energy management functions in-house, the district has saved thousands more in outsourced energy consulting and For more information on Automated Logic Corporation or to locate an authorized representative, visit www.automatedlogic.com. maintenance fees.” One “star” of the district’s program has been Danz Elementary School. Ranked by Focus on Energy in the lowest 20 percent in the state for heating and cooling efficiency (determined by usage per square foot for building type), the school surged to the top 5 percent following its Automated Logic retrofit. Before, Danz operated at one of the highest costs-per-square-foot within L www.DistrictAdministration.com July/August 2010 49 http://www.automatedlogic.com http://www.automatedlogic.com http://www.DistrictAdministration.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of District Administration - July 2010

District Administration - July 2010
Contents
Advertiser Index
Letters
From the Editor
News Update
Sustainability Update
Technology Update
Curriculum Update
Administrator Profile
District Profile
The Golden State Loses Its Luster
Seeking Justice in San Francisco
The Push for Public Preschool
Gearing up for the New Assessment
Books
Products
Online Edge
Supervisor’s Insights
Crisis Response
Supervisor’s Opinion
Tech Disruptions
Professional Opinion
Professional Opinion

District Administration - July 2010