FASER 2000

Benefits

• Provides accurate, detailed information regarding the usage and cost for Electric, Water and Sewer, Natural Gas, Chilled Water, and Steam throughout UAB.
• Assists building administrators in accurately forecasting fiscal year budgets.
• Alerts customers when utility accounts are outside their "normal" usage or cost for any given month.

Capabilities

Enables one to analyze bills (produce usage and cost) based on any combination of the following variants: Building, Energy Type, Building Type, Region, Bill End Dates, or Accounting Period.

Produces "alarms" when any account within UAB has exceeded the expected allowable range for usage and cost.

          Performance Monitoring (CAMS)

• A Computerized Central Monitoring System (CAMS), which was developed by UAB in partnership with three leading controls manufactures, is used to monitor the energy efficiency performance of building equipment systems.

Metering Expansion

The Metering Expansion Project added 82 metering points in 19 buildings to the existing UAB metering system.  The system will be used to meter internally supplied utilities, such as chilled water and steam and distribute cost to individual funding units.  It will also allow monitoring of time of day electrical use and the time when peak demands are set.  This will allow the Energy Management Department to evaluate if additional savings can be achieved by load shifting.  This will allow better energy monitoring, cost allocation and documentation on building operating cost.

Metering Repair - The metering front-end repair is 90% complete.  The system uses 4 PC's to gather information from 48 building collection controllers that monitors approximately 460 metering points.  This data can be used to verify if the HVAC systems are taking advantage of the winter economizer mode, and what the connected building load is in the summer.  This information will be connected to Central Plant to give them additional information to make operating decisions.  When completed, it will include a historical database that can be used to analyze future utility needs of the University buildings by giving utility use in any time base or duration needed. 

 

    Quarterly Budget Report

The purpose of Quarterly Budget Report is to inform building administrators as to how well their actual costs match up, with regard to utilities, to their fiscal year budget.  The report format includes UAB account number, budgeted cost amount, actual cost, and the percentage of the budget used. 

Key Benefit

Inform the administrators to evaluate if accounts are over/under budget, with regard to their utility costs at the 3-month, 6-month, 9-month and 12-month periods.

Reference Accounts

The following accounting sources are compiled and analyzed in order to produce the Quarterly Budget Report.

FAS 

Financial Accounting System

TUCC

 

The University Computer Center

 

 

    Energy Management Training

The Energy Team shall keep the University community aware of the changes in energy saving technology, unusual changes in energy usage or cost, and methods to use to save energy.

Information/training shall be transmitted by the Energy Team through periodic meetings with both the Hospital and Campus Maintenance teams as well as the Building Administrators/Fiscal Officers.

The Energy Team shall maintain records of these meetings as well as listing of information covered. The University Energy Manager shall be responsible for planning, scheduling and maintaining records for all energy training.

Key Benefits

• Provide Mechanics with up-to-date information on new technology.    
• Provide training for new mechanics.
• Provide useful formulas for mechanical use.