Abraxas Case Studies
Our client was GSA Region 8. The location was a US Border Station in Montana consisting of 5 buildings comprising 12,000 square feet. The buildings include a main building, two garages, an office/firing range, and a water treatment plant. An ASHRAE Level II audit was conducted.
Our client was a VA Hospital in Texas. The hospital campus had roughly 700,000 square feet.
“One of the most useful reports is cost and use per square foot, with buildings ranked against those in other districts. My clients can get a snapshot of how any particular building ranks against those in other districts.”
– Margaret Bishop, Energy Engineer
“Energy accounting is the backbone of the school district’s energy management program. The detail I am able to bring to administrative meetings demonstrates a level of expertise and knowledge that was previously impossible to report on.”
– Jim Faes, Energy Educator
“Since we began retrofitting facilities in September of 1997 until the end of April 2005, the University of Manitoba has saved over $19M on utilities. My Metrix energy accounting experience has been extremely successful!”
– Mike Ferley, University of Manitoba Energy Advocate
Our client was Yeshiva University in New York City. The university had a crack facilities department, the best we have ever seen. However, every building has savings potential. They desired to track their utility bills with Metrix, our utility bill tracking system. We were there to train them in using the software.
The client, a well-known national retailer in San Francisco, has a store that is comprised of 3 buildings which comprise over 1,000,000 square feet. Half is the selling floor and the remainder of the space is consists of stock rooms and storage. The buildings range from 8 to 11 stories tall. Over 1000 employees work during a typical day. The store spends over $2,000,000 in electricity alone each year. Our client desired to reduce their utility budget.
The Bozeman Fish Technology Center is a 53,822 GSF Fish Research Center located in Bozeman,
Montana. The Center consists of 15 buildings including office space, storage, laboratories, fish production
and research buildings, as well as housing and a maintenance shop. Abraxas Energy Consulting
conducted an ASHRAE Level II audit.
Westfield owns and manages Southcenter Mall, a 1,400,000 SF 3 story shopping center with over 240 stores in Tukwila, WA. The mall consists of an older section which was originally constructed in the late 1960s and a new section which was added in 2008 that significantly increased the mall’s size (and energy consumption). The new section had never been properly commissioned and building systems in the older section had suffered from degradation over time.
Abraxas Energy Consulting conducted ASHRAE Level 2 Energy Audits and similarly scoped Water Audits for the Marine Corps Air Station, Miramar from October 2010 through January 2011. Eight buildings were selected for auditing, including a grocery mart, three office buildings and 4 aircraft hangars, totaling 700,101 square feet. The goal of the audit was to assist MCAS Miramar in achieving the EISA 2007 required 30% energy reductions by providing conservation measures with detailed descriptions, scopes and calculations that could then be executed using O&M, ECIP or other sources of funding.