GEAPS Exchange 2025: Energy Savings (or Not) in Elevators
Session Description
Many facilities upgrade their systems to include VFDs, premium efficiency motors, soft starts, and other products and claim a savings on operational and maintenance cost without evaluating the projects before, or verifying after. This seminar is a brief introduction into the methods of finding the largest users of energy and maintenance costs, implementing solutions, and measuring results. This will avoid capital costs going into technology that do not have a benefit, or may be eventually costing even more money in the long run.
Meet The Speaker
Martin Bima is a senior process design engineer with FWS Group in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is responsible for mechanical design of new facilities and upgrades to existing facilities for grain and bulk material handling. Bima is a former employee of Manitoba Hydro’s PowerSmart program, responsible for developing, marketing and managing the industrial and large commercial energy efficiency program with respect to pumps, fans, blowers, VFDs, motors and other machines and processes. Bima has built and flies his own light airplane from land, water and snow, is involved in motorcycle camping and performs regularly with two musical groups.