Jim Stueber makes little things add up to big energy savings
The power plant at Washington University’s School of Medicine roars like a giant hair dryer, growling louder as Jim Stueber walks closer. In the shadow of the smoke stack, he goes in search of someone to open the door and comes back with employee Kevin Bradley.
“I tell you what,” Bradley shouts over the noise to Stueber, who’s dressed in a white shirt, dress pants and a tie. “You have the whitest shirts I’ve ever seen.”
Stueber smiles, promises to pass the compliment on to his wife, and steps inside.
It’s warm here, with yellow lines traveling across the floors like a roadway and pipes hanging overhead.
When he first started 19 years ago, everything here was a sooty black, covered with years of evidence of coal power. Stueber and his employees started cleaning and discovered white tile bricks, which still neatly line the walls. Only now you can see them. It’s clean and orderly inside the power plant now, with signs on different machines telling the maintenance employees how much money they’ve saved, or which employee is responsible for different pieces of equipment.
“It’s the little things,” says Stueber, director of facilities engineering.
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