Snowmass shuttle garage gets a facelift
The town's village shuttle bay recently received a facelift with energy efficient doors and lights, thanks to an $82,divinglamp2011000 federal transportation grant to retrofit and convert them through the TIGGER II project from the Federal Transit Administration administered through the Colorado Department of Transportation Division of Transit and Rail.
Snowmass Village was the only municipality in the state to receive the grant.
"Sounds like a small thing, but when you look at the "then and now" story, it's truly impressive,brightstal11" said Lesley Compagnone, Snowmass Village community relations officer. "The old way our Shuttle bay operated was completely inefficient from both a budgetary and energy standpoint."
The installation of high-speed garage doors with automatic open and close features will reduce heat loss in the bus storage building, said Dave Peckler, Snowmass transportation director. The doors are set to travel at four feet per second shinebrightled.
"The segmented steel door are still there," said Greg Fitzpatrick, transportation facility maintenance manager. "But they are heavy doors with heavy motors."
In the time it took the segmented doors to open, a vehicle now has time to enter the building and the door has closed, Fitpatrick said.
The automatic closing feature means that the chance that the door will be left open will be greatly reduced.
"With temperatures already in the teens at night and the mid-30s in the day,r4onsale we anticipate a considerable savings now that we can retain the heat within the building,lightingbright" Peckler said.
Also the slower operation of the segmented doors lead to repeated accidents by inpatient drivers every year, he said.
The high speed doors can sustain impacts and will automatically reset themselves. There are also sensors in the track and auto-reverse function in the foot of the doors to prevent accidents as well. This should be a significant improvement to lost operation of the doors because of accidents.
And for the bus and delivery drivers who enter the building, the lighting has changed, brightened, as part of the project improvements.
The department replaced 28 metal-halide light fixtures with high efficiency LED light fixtures with motion sensors and automatic shut offs (light management system).
The LED lamps have a five-year projected life, so the maintenance staff will not have to change a light bulb for the next five years (not insignificant given 28 lights), said Gary Littell, owner of Littell Electric and head of the lightening project.
"The motion sensor lights will help with our split-shift employees who enter the building multiple times, those with early morning shipping and deliveries and then there's our skier traffic," Fitzpatrick said.
The town's village shuttle bay recently received a facelift with energy efficient doors and lights, thanks to an $82,divinglamp2011000 federal transportation grant to retrofit and convert them through the TIGGER II project from the Federal Transit Administration administered through the Colorado Department of Transportation Division of Transit and Rail.
Snowmass Village was the only municipality in the state to receive the grant.
"Sounds like a small thing, but when you look at the "then and now" story, it's truly impressive,brightstal11" said Lesley Compagnone, Snowmass Village community relations officer. "The old way our Shuttle bay operated was completely inefficient from both a budgetary and energy standpoint."
The installation of high-speed garage doors with automatic open and close features will reduce heat loss in the bus storage building, said Dave Peckler, Snowmass transportation director. The doors are set to travel at four feet per second shinebrightled.
"The segmented steel door are still there," said Greg Fitzpatrick, transportation facility maintenance manager. "But they are heavy doors with heavy motors."
In the time it took the segmented doors to open, a vehicle now has time to enter the building and the door has closed, Fitpatrick said.
The automatic closing feature means that the chance that the door will be left open will be greatly reduced.
"With temperatures already in the teens at night and the mid-30s in the day,r4onsale we anticipate a considerable savings now that we can retain the heat within the building,lightingbright" Peckler said.
Also the slower operation of the segmented doors lead to repeated accidents by inpatient drivers every year, he said.
The high speed doors can sustain impacts and will automatically reset themselves. There are also sensors in the track and auto-reverse function in the foot of the doors to prevent accidents as well. This should be a significant improvement to lost operation of the doors because of accidents.
And for the bus and delivery drivers who enter the building, the lighting has changed, brightened, as part of the project improvements.
The department replaced 28 metal-halide light fixtures with high efficiency LED light fixtures with motion sensors and automatic shut offs (light management system).
The LED lamps have a five-year projected life, so the maintenance staff will not have to change a light bulb for the next five years (not insignificant given 28 lights), said Gary Littell, owner of Littell Electric and head of the lightening project.
"The motion sensor lights will help with our split-shift employees who enter the building multiple times, those with early morning shipping and deliveries and then there's our skier traffic," Fitzpatrick said.
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