editor Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 Mayor White Announces a Project That Will Reduce Energy and Save MoneyMayor Bill White has announced that the City of Houston has embarked on a project expected to significantly improve the energy efficiency of 271 City buildings. Mayor White and the Houston City Council have signed a contract with Siemens and T.A.C. committing these 271 City facilities, totaling approximately 11 million square feet, to the Clinton Climate Initiative Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 Anyone see something wrong with this? Mayor Bill White and the Houston City Council have signed a contract with Siemens (NYSE: SI) and T.A.C. committing approximately 11 million square feet to the Clinton Climate Initiative's (CCI) Energy Efficiency Building Retrofit Program.The retrofit program will include 100 fire stations, 81 police stations, 34 health facilities, 5 Convention and Entertainment facilities, 40 libraries, 1 Municipal Court, and 10 general office facilities.The City anticipates a greater than 20 percent reduction in annual utility and operating costs through the implementation of this energy efficiency and utility conservation retrofit program. This is a multi-year contract that is expected to result in millions of dollars in savings over several years and eliminate 68,000 tons of CO2 from our air annually.http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS268868860520101109 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 Bill White is no longer mayor? They want to retrofit some city buildings? Does the city not own that much square footage? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 Bill White is no longer mayor? They want to retrofit some city buildings? Does the city not own that much square footage? Yeah, Bill White I think this is a good thing, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 LOL someone needs to tell Mayor Parker that ol' boy White is up to his antics... again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted November 12, 2010 Share Posted November 12, 2010 Spend over a hundred million to cut less than a few million in operating costs? Sounds good to me! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted November 12, 2010 Share Posted November 12, 2010 Spend over a hundred million to cut less than a few million in operating costs? Sounds good to me! The only numbers I saw in the article was something like a 20% annual savings. I know when we look at retrofitting things, we look at the cost savings over a certain amount of years. So we don't see the number so we can't say if it's a good investment or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted November 13, 2010 Share Posted November 13, 2010 The only numbers I saw in the article was something like a 20% annual savings. I know when we look at retrofitting things, we look at the cost savings over a certain amount of years. So we don't see the number so we can't say if it's a good investment or not.That's probably why they didn't print the numbers in the first place. That or they're still estimating the costs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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