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Tell us about the SUNY Maritime campus.
Well, we’re unique in the SUNY system. Our structures range from a fort that's almost 200 years old, with granite walls that are 8 feet thick, to residence halls that are 1960s vintage to a new academic building that was constructed in 2014 and a seamanship center that was just finished in 2024. Also, we’re located on a 52-acre peninsula in New York City, even though we're a state facility and are governed by state code and state rules. And then there’s the pier for the training ship, the Empire State VII, and what it needs when the ship is berthed vs. when it’s not.
Submetering is the backbone of our operations, and utiliVisor is instrumental in helping us recover costs and improve efficiency. Right now, we're doing a new boiler project in our Heating Plant. So the first thing we did was extract that data and gave it to the consultant: the electrical data, the kilowatt demand, the usage. We’re using the data to see if the existing electrical service is adequate to receive the new boilers. That’s very critical data for us to design the new project.
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