What Building Operations and Airplanes Have in Common

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I'm an avid believer that you have to take care of things

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Before they break. If you maintain your equipment

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It's going to last you longer. It's not going to wear out as fast.

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You can foresee problems coming before they happen.

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That's one of the major, major things I've learned from

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My airplane background. I worked the flight line for American Airlines

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With problems for a very long time and

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We were troubleshooters.

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We had to fix what was wrong with that plane

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To get it flying, because that's revenue.

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Every time the plane is on the ground

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The airline loses money, and they don't like that.

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So fix the problem and get the plane in the air

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Without sacrificing any type of safety.

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Every day it's something new, it's challenging, it's not mundane.

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You’re always meeting people, you're always learning something.

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I also have been around at a point where 

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Most of the old people that I first started with are gone now.

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They've all retired now, and we have a whole new generation of

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Young building managers and engineers that are very smart.

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And very ambitious.

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I really enjoy working with the young people there.

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They motivate you really, they challenge your intellect.

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They ask good questions, so they keep you on your toes.

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And tenants are becoming more demanding too.

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They are, very much so.

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This makes the building management

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And the corporate environment much tougher.

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Very hard.

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I don't rely totally on a BMS.

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That was one of my old boss's philosophies.

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It makes people lazy. With the BMS

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You still have to physically go to the engine room

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And see everything that's happening everywhere.

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But without it today, I don't see how you could

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Actually run a building anymore. Turns the air conditioning on

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Turns them off. Can turn the lights, escalators, you name it, it does it.

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It's a very good tool to help you run a building efficiently.

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But it's only as good as the people operating it.

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I'll always say that.

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If you don't understand how to use it properly

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It's just a fancy computer.

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With all the laws that are coming down the pike with this

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Energy conservation have put a tremendous taxing

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I think on ownership to a large degree.

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What Richard does, for example.

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It's very important, because it's what they're forcing everybody to do

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By 2050, come off of fossil fuels and go totally electric.

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It's a big change. Years ago we burned #6 fuel. It was like garbage.

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You see big smoke coming out of the chimneys.

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You know, nobody cared. You could keep the building at 90 degrees.

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Open a window. Nobody seemed to care if you would.

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Energy costs were very cheap, but it's very important

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To run a building efficiently, especially at the price of everything today.

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They want to switch everything to electric.

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And that to me is a major hurdle to overcome. It's going to take

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A lot of work from a lot of people to see this thing come to fruition.

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If it even does. But, I think this is where

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A company like utiliVisor is extremely important.

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As well as having a good understanding of

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Every part of the electrical systems in your building.

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Actually our largest building down at the seaport

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I had a chance to sit down and talk to Richard

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And his sons, and we went ahead and we developed a plan.

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And we started saving money pretty much right away.

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We changed parts of the BMS, we added some things to the BMS. 

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They gave us different ideas, they monitor us constantly.

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So they see whenever the temperatures are rising.

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If something seems out of whack and they would give suggestions

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To the engineers and they would make them.

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And we go back and forth. Adjust this, change that, try this.

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Until we have the systems running properly.

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I would have to say

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Most of the suggestions they have made have turned into dollars.