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Turner FMS Facility Forecasting & Planning Background: One of the services provided by Turner Facility Management Solutions is a Facility Forecasting & Planning (FF&P) report. The report gives the owner of the new facility a guide for how much he/she needs to budget for maintenance and staffing costs for upkeep and usage of the building over the next 50 years. It gives the receiver of the report suggested time frames to do the maintenance tasks that each component requires, as in how often components are needed to be replaced, serviced. Problem Statement: Currently, building components are manually added into the Whitestone Research MARS program, which takes a large amount of time. Also, Turner FMS does not have a reliable energy usage program. This project will need to calculate how much energy, electricity and natural gas is used to keep the building operating, where the calculations will be based off the materials of the building and the component properties found within the MARS program. The main problem of the project is to design accurate energy algorithms and a program that can use those algorithms and the MARS information to automatically generate the FF&P reports. Team Members: Electrical Engineer: Brian Nieport nieporbp@email.uc.edu Faculty Advisor: Dr. Chia-Yung Han Goal: To create an efficient energy analysis program and automate the FF&P report making process Subgoals:
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