P2 Internships: An Intern

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P2 Internships An Interns Perspective
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Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center

• Background
• - Non-for-Profit hospital
• Employees 1,700 people

• Recommendations
• - Purchase reusable Chair-Check pads
• savings of 50,000 annually
• - Retrofit lighting for electronic ballasts and
  T-8 lamps
• savings of 53,000 annually

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Alcan Packaging

• Background
• -Injection blow mold factory
• - produces plastic bottles (IBM, SBM and EBM
  machines)
• - 250 employees

• Recommendations
• - Retrofitting fixtures for T8 lamps and
  electronic ballasts saved 2,000
• - Repairing air leaks and switching to pneumatic
  diverters saved 40,000
• - Build outside air intake system for AC10 and
  AC11

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Lessons Learned

• Audit ALL expenditure
• Gas, electricity, water, procurements etc.
• Incrementalize processes
• Interview veteran staff
• Provide technical contacts for specific processes
  (i.e. HVAC, chilled water, industrial processes)
• Emphasize recommendations with little or no
  capital costs