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Magazine Selects ORU for Facility Maintenance Achievement Award

Facility Maintenance Decisions magazine has selected Oral Roberts University as one of eight recipients of the 2015 Facility Maintenance Decisions Achievement Awards. The university was honored under the Retrofits and Renovations category for work done to improve the sustainability of CityPlex Towers and ORU’s campus. These improvements have allowed ORU/CityPlex to reduce the annual electricity consumption by 32,000,000 kWh and peak demand by 4,000 kW, all while adding a new 31,000 square-foot Student Center on campus.

Facility Maintenance Decisions Achievement Awards included:

Retrofits and Renovations
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston
Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Okla.

Personnel Management
Broward College, Davie, Fla.
Frederick County (Md.) Public Schools

Financial Management
Frito-Lay Facilities, Plano, Texas
Winston-Salem/Forsyth (N.C.) County Schools

Sustainability
Arlington (Texas) Independent School District
Texas Children's Hospital, Houston

“The overall quality of the entries in this year's awards program was outstanding, and this year's recipients truly demonstrated the value of their departments to their organizations,” says Dave Lubach, the magazine's associate editor. “Each of the award recipients demonstrated all of the qualities that make up successful maintenance and engineering departments, presenting innovative ideas that produced energy and financial savings.”

The award program recognizes the role maintenance and engineering departments play in the successful and efficient operation of the nation's institutional and commercial facilities as determined by online voting, a panel of judges and the magazine's editors. The following maintenance and engineering departments will receive this year's awards:

Recipients will receive their awards at the NFMT Orlando Conference at the Orange County Convention Center on Oct. 27-28. To view all of the 2015 entries and past award recipients, visit www.FacilitiesNet.com/FMD/FMDAA.

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