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Central Plant Management, Operations, Maintenance Questions

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BronYrAur

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I have a few general questions that I would appreciate ideas on how to best answer. This is part of an RFP to perform central plant maintenance and operation for a hospital boiler/chiller/generator plant. I will list them below and would appreciate any suggestions:

How do you propose to provide for continuous improvement efforts to reduce cost while improving service and consistently achieving targets?

How would you propose structuring continuous improvement efforts?

How, specifically, do you propose to measure this improvement?

What specific problem identification and problem solving methodology do you use to eliminate the reoccurrence of unplanned downtime that result from equipment or system breakdowns?

What specific construction planning strategies do you use and how do you see those implemented to reduce life cycle cost of new facilities?

Thanks for the help.
 
read Dr Demming quality improvement using mathmatical tools from Juran. there are consultants that can help set up some simple things to get you going.
 
dcasto,


is that a book? I'm not sure where you are directing me to.
 
I think that commissioning of existing facilities, or re-commissioning, might be a useful tool. The NEBB 2009 re-commissioning book might be of use. Also, continuous commissioning, such as the TAMU work and DOE publication might be useful.

Another good source may be PECI (peci.org). They've written a lot of the re-commissioning standars and spec's for State of California and Oregon. The California Commissioning Consortium also has good info on recommissioning.

I'm working on the same issue, hospital central plants. No capital outlay, no increase in O&M staff; recommissioning has a minor outlay for audit, then can go into projects and M&V.
 
I'd be trusting more to a good electrician, TAB and steam fitter.
 
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