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P6 More than just “At your service” VOLUME 3 | QTR 1 | 2015
A catalyst for unprecedented results :+: BY MARK DEWEIRDT
Whenever the Portland Timbers soccer team scores, the fans go wild as the Leatherman sponsored lumber jack gets the chainsaw screaming and rips through some fir. MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions could not be prouder to have Leatherman Tool Group as a new client. The Leatherman tool is an icon of the Northwest’s pioneering, “get it done”, spirit. It's the reason Tim Leatherman built his first multipurpose tool in 1983, and why Leatherman Tool Group has stayed local. Leatherman ships tools all over the world and has always been a leader in energy conservation. Scott Bacon manages the 90,000 square foot Leatherman headquarters, which includes the main manufacturing plant. Scott has
worked with the Energy Trust of Oregon to install five energy projects, and as a result has saved Leatherman over $129K annually. He collaborated with the Energy Trust for over a year to find a way to incentivize a portion of the cost of replacement of his antiquated Trane Tracer control system. No solution was in sight until Mike Smith of Energy 350 suggested a new angle: investigate MacMiller’s new fan speed technology, Catalyst. Our objective was to present a plan that would modernize the system for least cost and improve the ability to manage and reduce energy use – and do it FAST! During our initial meeting with Scott, we presented detailed energy saving and cost data pulled from satellite images. After the sharing of this information, two months later Scott approved
The Leatherman tool is an icon of the Northwest’s pioneering, “get it done”, spirit.
a $340K Catalyst project with a 2-year payback – an initiative that now controls his entire plant, which is over 58 RTU’s! Energy 350, Abacus Engineering and MacMiller all worked together to execute this tremendously successful project for Leatherman and the Energy Trust in a tight 3-month installation schedule. Bryan Nix, project manager; Doug Harmon, lead technician; and Mike Smith all deserve kudos for driving this project home in record speed. Thanks also go to Transformative Wave, the group that provided the custom engineering for the process chiller monitoring and lighting control points.
SHOUT OUT! TO TRAVIS ESHPETER ”Just wanted to let you know that the phase monitor/timer seems to have done exactly what we hoped. We had an outage Sunday around 9 a.m. that took all power down. The generator kicked on as it should and shortly thereafter, the AC timer allowed the unit to restart. We only showed a 2-3 degree rise in server room temps before it started dropping again. Thanks for putting your mind to work on our problems and coming up with what appears to be the right solution.” Doug Deaton, MCSE Vacation International, Inc.
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