The Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center (MMAC) is a large campus with over 155 buildings comprising 3.5 million gross square feet on Oklahoma City Airport Trust property. The buildings are a combination of older inefficient facilities along with some recently renovated ones. The buildings are a mixture of office spaces, laboratories, classrooms, equipment repair and distribution centers, energy intensive radar equipment centers. Approximately 6,300 government and contract employees, as well as students comprise the daily worklife.

Under Executive Order 13514 all federal agencies, including the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center (MMAC) are required to reduce energy consumption intensity per square foot.  This means a 30 percent reduction is required by 2015 (relative to 2003 baseline year).  These efforts must be accomplished without compromising our mission critical activities, while maintaining our quality of life and ensuring occupant safety. 

Since 2003, MMAC’s energy consumption has dropped by 17 percent per square foot, leading us closer to achieving our goal. However, with the onset of more mission critical equipment being installed and an increase in student loads and schedules, this growth significantly impacts our energy conservation goals.

The Aeronautical Center is committed to excellence and leadership in protecting our environment, conserving our natural resources, and improving our energy efficiency.  In order to achieve the MMAC’s newly stated energy goals, a persistent practice of energy conservation along with employee’s input and participation is essential for such sustainability.

Here are ways for everyone to be more mindful in reaching the Center’s energy conservation goals:

1. Turn off lights when leaving a room
2. Reduce general lighting; use task lighting
3. Request reduction in hallway lighting to a safe minimum
4. Turn off printers, copiers and monitors when idle
5. Shut off coffee pots, radios, fans and other appliances
6. Set thermostats to pre-cool spaces at off-peak times
7. Use Energy-Star labeled equipment
8. Dress according to the weather
9. Do not use portable fans or portable heaters (41 CFR 101-20.108)
10. Keep blinds or curtains drawn during a hot summer day; open them during the sunny part of a winter day

Doing whatever we can each day to meet these goals can further help reduce costs, reduce air and water pollution and move us toward supporting more clean energy jobs. We look forward to implementing an environmental plan that reduces our environmental footprint further saving taxpayer dollars and achieving sustainability goals.

For more information about how your organization can become more energy compliant, please contact any one of our energy conservation team members:

Dave.Masias@faa.gov Environmental, Occupational, Safety & Health (EOSH) Program Manager (AMP-100) ext. 4-9610

Kevin.Coker@faa.gov EOSH, Energy & Utility Programs and Radiation Protection Program (AMP-100) ext. 4-5223

Jerry.CTR.King@faa.gov EOSH, Industrial Energy Engineer (AMP-100) ext. 4-0956