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38 | january/february 2015 | Facilities Manager I n August 2011, I submitted a business case for a new, proactive, energy-based operations program at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, for approval and buy-in from Emory's Campus Services administration. e proposed program was entitled the Sustainable Performance Program (SPP), and I've modified the original business case for this article. e program was approved with an initial funding commitment of $75,000. In fiscal year 2012, using only $40,000, we uncovered 78 operating inefficiencies, previously unknown to our operations staff, within seven of our newer facilities on campus. e estimated cost avoidance on those issues was $250,000. Using these results, we were approved to create a full-time, dedicated position, which became ef- fective in February 2013. To date, we have eight facilities fully implemented within the SPP. ese same facilities had recently been recommissioned (Re-Cx) in FY12/13. Emory's investment cost for the Re-Cx projects was $1.27 million. When the SPP was implemented in these buildings, an ad- ditional 640 issues were identified and corrected. Annual utility cost savings in these facilities is tracking $800,000. Now, with the SPP, the goal is to keep the performance optimized and avoid degradation. e graphic on page 40 is the essence of the SPP.