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Expressing My Gratitude for a Job Well Done

Posted on July 23rd, 2021 by Dr. Francis Collins

On July 21, I also had the opportunity to express my gratitude to the outstanding team at NIH’s Central Utility Plant (CUP). The CUP provides steam, chilled water, compressed air, and approximately 30 percent of the electricity to NIH’s Bethesda campus, serving an excess of 12 million gross square feet of facilities. That makes CUP one of the largest and most technologically advanced district energy plants in the US. While there, I visited the CUP control room, shown above. Very impressive. Thanks once again to Farhad Memarzadeh and everyone at CUP for helping to keep the NIH campus operating smoothly during this difficult time. Credit: NIH

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Tags: Central Utility Plant, CUP, Farhad Memarzadeh

4 Comments

Andrew Goldstein says:

July 23, 2021 at 2:37 pm

“You can’t manage what you can’t measure.”
Peter Drucker’s famous quote, written on the wall of CUP is very apt. It may not be the Golden Rule, but it comes close.

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Retired, NCI/NIH says:

July 23, 2021 at 4:52 pm

Congratulations to Farhad Memarzadeh–

Mahin Khatami, PhD

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Roseanne M Woo-Haltresht says:

July 23, 2021 at 6:59 pm

Congratulations to the CUP Team!

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Hari says:

August 2, 2021 at 11:05 pm

Congratulations to all the team member

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