BAS helps TJU provide reliable comfort while improving maintenance self-reliance
Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia is an academic health center, with 13 buildings comprising about 4.5 million sq ft of space. With both a hospital and a clinical research facility, including a bio-safety level-3 (BL3) AIDS research lab, the university needs precise control of environmental conditions in laboratories, animal facilities and, of course, operating rooms. In an effort to simplify facility controls to one platform, the university selected Siemens Building Technologies, Inc.
While the Siemens APOGEE® BAS provides the control reliability the hospital needs, the platform also helps reduce both operational and utility costs. APOGEE's ease-of-use and Siemens' thorough training program make the building staff effectively self-sufficient, providing both time and cost savings. And thanks to the installation of a full-scale energy conservation program during the past year, the hospital also can claim savings of more than $1 million in utility costs, and counting.