Utility costs

[BillConnerFASTC]

Anyone have a clue what your utility costs are - elec, gas, oil, water, sewer - for your PAC? Per square foot perhaps? Client asking and I don't really know.

 

[FMEng]

That could vary substantially depending on climate, type of heating and cooling systems, amount of insulation, local utility rates, and so on. A building in Buffalo isn't going to cost the same to run as one in Seattle. It seems to me the only way to get at a meaningful number would be to ask an electrical/mechanical engineering firm to make some calcs based on the specifics.

 

[RonHebbard]

That could vary substantially depending on climate, type of heating and cooling systems, amount of insulation, local utility rates, and so on. A building in Buffalo isn't going to cost the same to run as one in Seattle. It seems to me the only way to get at a meaningful number would be to ask an electrical/mechanical engineering firm to make some calcs based on the specifics.

@BillConnerFASTC and @FMEng Plus there's the idiot factor , like when a hot-shot summer school student grabs the focus remote and keys in all channels bump to 100% when you've a really big hang in the air and bumps your electrical meter's peak demand pointer for the month to say nothing of shortening the life expectancy of a few hundred FEL's and 2K's. Arrgh! Don't ask me how I know this.
Toodleoo!
Ron Hebbard

 

[BillConnerFASTC]

But if we had 10 or 15 responses, odds are we have an idea.

 

[tjrobb]

90k square feet, one stage 550 seats the other around 50, renovated 2010, community theater. We run ~11c/kWH, and around 4 to 5 k per month total electrical. Eastern Iowa. I'm not sure of our gas or water.

 

[Dionysus]

I could FIND OUT for the Palace Theatre pretty easy... Did NOT keep that info last I saw it...
For the Grand Theatre, not sure how easily I could find out, especially since we have a brand new building manager who's only been with us since December and he's been BUSY, and don't have personal contact info for the previous guy who I bet could tell you off the top of his head... @RonHebbard have Tim W's personal contact per chance?