Presentation Description:

Stowers Institute embarked on an energy conservation effort beginning in 2017 through monitoring based commissioning. This presentation will review the energy conservation measures implements, the lessons learned, the resulting energy savings, and some of the project economics.

Learning Objectives: 

1. Identify potential energy conservation measures for laboratories.  
2. Understand monitoring based commissioning.
3. Understand potential energy savings and project economics of monitoring based commissioning implementation.

Presenters Biography:

Tim Geary, Director of Operations and Services, joined the Stowers Institute in 2001 from his role as Manager of Administrative Services with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Dallas, Texas. 

Mr. Geary supports the Institute’s scientific mission by overseeing facility and support services including Technical Services, Library Services, Laboratory Services, Fly Stock Facility, Contract Services, Procurement, Plant Engineering and Maintenance, Building and Grounds, and General Services. He has been responsible for over $90 million in renovations and construction projects including a 24,000 sq. foot, 11,000 cage vivarium facility, a 7,600 sq. foot reptile facility, three aquatic facilities, an electron microscopy facility, and numerous laboratory and support space projects.

Previously, Mr. Geary spent six years as an administrator with American Red Cross Blood services in Texas and Oklahoma.  He also served as the Lead Chemistry Technologist at Wichita General Hospital and as Technical Services Specialist with Technicon Instruments Corporation, both in Wichita Falls, Texas.

Mr. Geary earned a Bachelor of Science in Medical Technology from Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas and a Master of Business Administration in Health Care Administration from Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, Texas. He served four years in the United States Navy as an Operations Specialist, Petty Officer Second Class, based in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.