ABM Saves Connellsville Area School District $26.4 Million in Operating Costs
November 09 2017 - 8:00AM
ABM (NYSE:ABM), a leading provider of facility solutions, has
initiated an Energy Performance Contracting program for
Connellsville Area School District in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
ABM’s customized solution is projected to save Connellsville Area
School District more than $26.4 million in energy and operating
costs over a 15-year period, which district officials plan to use
to finance educational and technological initiatives across the
district. The project launched on July 1, 2017 and is scheduled for
completion in October 2018.
Energy and operational savings will be achieved
by implementing infrastructure upgrades to multiple facilities in
the district, including four elementary schools, Connellsville Area
High School, Connellsville Area Middle School, and the
Connellsville Area Career and Technology Center.
The district is using the project to help cut
operational costs without sacrificing educational opportunities, as
part of a three-year strategic financial recovery plan.
“Connellsville Area School District’s turnaround
is ambitious and sets the district apart from others,” said Mark
Newsome, President of ABM Technical Solutions. “The district is
well-positioned to enhance its students’ educational experiences by
working with ABM to realize the savings our Energy Performance
Contracting program can provide.”
Philip Martell, Superintendent of Connellsville
Area School District, said, “It is the perfect time to partner with
ABM. We have operational issues across the board, but for us, the
selling point of the project is the educational benefit to our
students.” He continued, “This partnership allows us to upgrade not
only the facilities and security in our building, but also the
technology. This project gives us the stability to move ahead with
an educational component that a lot of public education
institutions cannot due to funding cuts.”
Earlier this year, the Connellsville Area School
District consolidated its eight elementary schools into four, in an
effort to align its operational budget with enrollment and improve
its students’ learning environment.
ABM’s Energy Performance Contracting program
enables the Connellsville Area School District to address the
operational issues and aging infrastructure of its buildings
without burdening the district’s taxpayers.
The program enables district officials to
retrofit and upgrade most of its buildings systems, while
continuing to move toward technology-based educational programming
for its students.
“A project like this provides us the ability to
make educational upgrades we may not have been able to do otherwise
because of a lack of funding,” Martell said. “There are a lot of
districts that may not be able to take on a project, like putting
devices in students hands, right now, but they can do it, too, with
the right help. For us, that was the partnership with ABM.”
In each of the buildings, ABM will work to
improve HVAC systems and maintenance, lighting, water conservation,
and energy management systems.
ABM’s Energy Performance Contracting program is
a financial solution that meets clients’ technical facility needs
and sustainability goals. It drives costs out of clients’ operating
budgets and allows savings to be reallocated to fund educational
and capital expenses. Click here for a video on how ABM is
providing facility and financial solutions to school districts
without upfront costs or tax increases.
Along with upgrading the school district’s
infrastructure, the solution is expected to produce enough general
fund savings to purchase each student a Chromebook laptop computer,
upgrade televisions, install SMART Boards in classrooms, and
upgrade the wireless internet network throughout each of the
district’s buildings.
“Ultimately, the goal of our partnership with
ABM is to provide educational opportunities for our students and
staff and help us meet our buildings’ needs to create an
environment conducive to learning,” Martell said. “ABM’s creative
solution will help us address our daily operational needs, while
redirecting funding toward educational programming.”
Click here to find a complete listing of the
energy-efficiency and infrastructure improvements at Connellsville
Area School District’s facilities. Highlights of the project
include:
- Districtwide, replacing fluorescent lighting fixtures with new,
energy-efficient LED lighting, upgrading security and safety
features, and building envelopes
- Installing upgraded or rejuvenating old HVAC systems function
at high-efficiency rates, and state-of-the-art, non-proprietary
controls
- Replacing boilers with high-efficiency units at Bullskin
Elementary and Springfield Township Elementary schools, and
Connellsville Area Middle School
- Across the district’s four elementary schools, installing 37
new rooftop air conditioning units, and new roofing overlays at
Bullskin Elementary and West Crawford Elementary schools
- Upgrading walk-in coolers and freezers, and kitchen hood
controls in six of the district’s kitchen areas
- Districtwide, upgrading water conservation measures, and
installing tankless hot water heaters at three schools
Connellsville Area School District covers 250
square miles of rural southwestern Pennsylvania and currently has
about 4,300 students and 550 employees.
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