LaPorte ISD

The Players

The La Porte Independent School District (LPISD) serves nearly

8,000 students in Harris County, Texas, part of the Houston

metropolitan area. The district includes 11 campuses: six

elementary schools; one school for sixth graders; two junior

high schools; one high school; and an alternative school. A

total of 1,052 personnel support school operations.

The district has used Automated Logic systems since 1984.

In early 2005, Mike Clausen, LPISD’s director of facilities and

construction, contracted Automated Logic-UES to upgrade

the district’s building automation system to WebCTRL

develop new energy conservation measures as well.

“The project was unique in that it didn’t require a lot of new

equipment,” said Don McCorquodale, CEM, Automated

Logic-UES facilities performance analyst. “We were able to

achieve our goals by upgrading the system with WebCTRL

and UES’s M-Power® and to® software. These two applicationsallowed us to

capture and assess district data, identify the

biggest energy users and implement conservation measures

that cut costs by more than $115,000 over 2004 - all within

a seven-month period.”