By Greentech Lead Team: The U.S. Air Force (USAF) has
selected IBM smarter buildings software to help its civil engineers maximize
energy efficiency.
The software enables USAF to automate the management of
physical infrastructure portfolio from buildings, vehicles, runways and other
infrastructure across 170 locations worldwide.
A press release from IBM said this portfolio includes
more than 626 million square feet of real estate, over 100 million square yards
of airfield pavement and 10 million acres of land used by Active Duty, Reserve
and Air National Guard personnel.
“IBM TRIRIGA infuses a new level of intelligence to
physical infrastructures that will enable U.S. Air Force to make the timely and
critical decisions about their assets that are essential to the success of
their operations,” said George Ahn, vice president of Enterprise Asset
Management, IBM.
Presidential Executive Orders require executive branch
departments and agencies to establish asset management plans, install
performance measures and ensure the effective management of Federal real
property assets through their entire lifecycle. Additional orders require
agencies to improve energy efficiency, reduce natural resource consumption and
decrease waste production to reduce carbon emissions.
To meet this order, the Air Force Office of the Civil
Engineer will use IBM TRIRIGA software to gain greater visibility and control
of its physical assets. The mission of the Air Force Office of the Civil
Engineer is to provide, operate, maintain, and protect sustainable
installations as weapon-system platforms through engineering and emergency
response services across the full mission spectrum,
The company claims that IBM’s integrated workplace
management software, called IBM TRIRIGA, provides the Air Force with a
standardized, powerful technology platform to analyze data about real property
assets, streamline work orders and suppliers, and reduce energy use across
thousands of buildings.
These tools will help USAF measure and manage its
operational, financial, and environmental performance to determine and prove
effectiveness against government-wide and agency real property management
objectives.
“IBM TRIRIGA software will help implement our NexGen
IT vision and give USAF a data-driven approach to manage its real property and
physical assets, as well as help us predict issues before they impact service
and safety,” said Alexander Earle, chief information officer, Air Force
Office of the Civil Engineer.