February 9, 2007—Honeywell has been awarded a $28.6 million contract by the US General Services Administration (GSA) to upgrade building systems and reduce energy costs at the new Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in Silver Spring, Md.
The upgrades at the White Oak office and research campus are expected to help the GSA cut energy costs by $3 million per year while improving comfort for building occupants and reducing the FDA’s vulnerability to disruptions on the electric grid.
The 23-year contract, among the largest granted since the Department of Energy introduced the energy savings performance contract (ESPC) program in 1998, will be funded from the downstream energy and operational savings the upgrades produce. Honeywell guarantees the savings so the work will not increase operating budgets or require additional taxpayer dollars. This is the third major energy-conservation contract for Honeywell at White Oak, notes the company.
This project expands the capabilities of the utility plant by installing: two natural gas-fired turbine generators; two 2,000-ton centrifugal chillers; a 1,130-ton absorption chiller that captures waste heat from the generators and recycles it to produce chilled water; and ancillary plant equipment and distribution systems. The onsite generation capacity will support critical facility loads, which improves energy security for the FDA by decreasing its reliance on the electric grid.
Honeywell also will provide operations and maintenance services for the seven additional campus buildings supported by the construction project.
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