The Army’s Rock Island Arsenal Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center in Illinois broke ground on a $61 million infrastructure modernization project that will cut energy use by about 35 percent and generate up to $5.3 million in annual energy and operational savings. The project will save nearly 5.5 million kWh each year.
The Army launched the technology center upgrades through a 20-year energy savings performance contract with Honeywell.
Along with the immediate savings, the project will help the center meet the requirements of a Presidential Executive Order that calls for federal facilities to reduce energy consumption 30 percent by 2015.
As part of the project, Honeywell will implement on-premise natural-gas heating that will allow the facility to disconnect from the Garrison’s central coal-fired steam plant.