Wednesday 12 December 2012

Air Mobility Command announced

Add caption


12/10/2012 - MCCONNELL AIR FORCE BASE, Kan. -- Air quality Command declared Tuesday that McConnell won third place at intervals the 2012 AMC Energy Incentive Awards. to boot, Rex Bluml, twenty second engineer Squadron chief and manager, won second place on the individual level.




Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., and Travis AFB, Calif., came in first and second place, severally.




The competition was meant to go looking out and acknowledge the very best of us and bases in energy conservation and innovation.




"Renewable energy is usually one issue we're fascinated by," said Maj. Robert Liu, twenty second CES acting commander. "Here in [the twenty second CES] compound, we're invariably experimenting to see if comes area unit doable and might calculate for America."







"There area unit lots of comes we've done," said Liu. "There area unit the direct digital controls we've an inclination to place sure air-con units aboard, we're acting on a wise metering project and thus the new digital thermometers in some buildings."




Bluml was put together honored for being the "man behind-the-scenes" for many of the base's achievements throughout the year.




"We haven't had Associate in Nursing actual dedicated energy manager in a pair of years," aforementioned Bluml. "Myself and my supervisor fill at intervals the role as best we have a tendency to ar ready to, thus to possess a program that is thus durable that we've an inclination to're still ready to garner a gift says lots regarding what we've an inclination to try to to here and also the method seriously we have a tendency to take energy."




Bluml managed the acquisition of the water leak detector, that saved rock bottom 3.6 million gallons of water, and trained the handfuls of facility managers on the energy policy. He put together spearheaded Associate in Nursing in-house development of energy programs, saving McConnell thousands of dollars.




He stressed that it completely was a team effort, instead of one individual's work, to accomplish everything that rock bottom was recognized for.










"If those sites become doable which we have a tendency to area unit ready to get the wing generators place in on them," aforementioned Bluml, "that would be the largest-impact project that we'll have done."




Awards just like the Energy Incentive Award encourage the Airmen aboard to work exhausting and attain the mission. The twenty second CES will still work on making McConnell a further energy-efficient base, with demolition consolidation and reducing the carbon footprint aboard area unit a pair of of the foremost goals of the squadron over consecutive a pair of years, said Liu.

No comments:

Post a Comment