So now we're going to hear from
the Associate Director of building

services Mr Tommy little
I've known Tommy for.

Twenty five years it's a long time and

I'm here because of Mr
little he came first and

he called me down at AUB and we were
working at Auburn University to gether and

he said Cindy come to Georgia Tech and
I've been here ever since so.

He has creative innovative and
what you heard award winning programs for

Georgia Tech so my honor Mr Tommy little.

Thank you thank you
Mr Jackson Good morning.

So while we're waiting for that.

I have a little joke to share with you.

Has nothing to recycling but.

But actually this is a true story and
I'm a wild thought about it but

this morning when I was leaving
the gym coming back to the campus.

I heard some students that would talk to
me they were talking overhear them and

they were talking about security here in
Atlanta and not just on campus and and

basically you know wherever you are you
just got to be you know safe and

be aware of your surroundings it
reminded me of when I was when my.

Youngest son he and
I some years ago he's thirteen now but

without a part he was a taller then and
he enjoy ducks geese so

I was walking by the lake and all with
sudden I hear this on my eyes that does.

Not do that number then I was like wow.

Well basically the situation I mean
crime is not that bad it's just that.

For what is were if you just got
to be aware of your surroundings

wherever you are.

And.

That's just my public service
announcement for the moment.

So I think we're ready.

To.

Dust off.

It's time to smash and.

Just asked if I can not.

Play.

Play.

If.

We don't.

Like.

This.

With this record.

I say.

Go out.

Blah blah blah blah blah.

Blah.

Water we've been using it to washing
clean things for thousands of years

water is the safest liquid we know
I mean we're mostly made of it.

And since ancient times we've helped
water clean things by mixing it with

chemicals so leeches detergents
these chemicals help water clean

by making it stick to things particles
of grime Now the sticking comes

from the chemical reactions particles
of dirt are chemically attracted to so

stator objects and other cleaning products
some of that stuff isn't so good for its.

No it seems like the tougher the state

the stronger the chemical
we need to clean it up.

But that active I found a way
to clean surfaces as well or

better than conventional cleaning
products using ordinary tap water and

a carefully controlled very small
amount of electricity to create

a blend of microscopic bubbles
charged up water molecules

we call this activated water
no activated water cleans and

sanitize the surfaces by taking
advantage of the very small but

quite apparent electrical
properties of water and dirt.

Activated one is a blend of
ionized liquid water molecules and

nano bubbles of gas the water in the gas
remain ionized in chemically active for

about half a minute that's
plenty of time for you to spray.

Wipe.

Clean and.

Sanitize activated more cleans because it
loosens and suspends particles of dirt and

germs it leaves numerous soapy or
chemical residue dry and.

Dusty if anything.

Especially if you need Scotch.

When we clean with something like ammonia.

There's a chemical reaction
between dirt and ammonia.

When we clean something
like phos forecasts.

There's a chemical reaction between
dirt and dust for a gas and.

Now both of these chemicals
are taking some dirt away but

they're also leaving open of
themselves behind a little residue.

Now these chemicals are strong you can
tell by the smell in fact this one has.

A Poison Control phone number on.

Now take a look at this.

We're running electricity through
ordinary tap water what some

down of these electrodes ions
of water molecules hydrogen

oxygen bubbles are forming and
these islands can react with

dirt particles because let's not
forget dark particles of ions to.

Leave.

This is ordinary tap water.

Seal the droplets contacts
the table the simulates Kervyn

in the same way the sides Kervyn on
this adolescent entertainment system

you know with activated water
droplets get flattened out.

By the way are activated
water is going to us.

Here I'll show you.

Ordinary tap water activated water.

Look closely to see how the activated
water droplets are flatter

it's wetting the surface better and
that's the key to cleaning.

That took.

Its ordinary test.

Defeat pain no sound to create.

Perhaps only fifteen enemies.

Because.

The new ball will scare only charge so
they're attracted to the ions on the dirt.

The same way magnets
are tracked to each other.

And then once the bubbles are on the dirt
they all have the same electric charge so

they repel each other
the way magnets repel.

The bubbles stick together and
they become thick and they start

to lift the dirt particles off the surface
and break them apart like this.

Particles are suspended in the water and
they can be linked away.

If we to the electric charge in
the middle bubbles just right

activated water kills germs.

The way this works is a stream of
activated water carries an electric field.

Ruptures the outer structure of the jar.

Well that's our show Thanks for

watching your active I am
pro is a real clean machine.

It's activated water will evaporate

after it cleans a few things look out dirt
because we're going to clean the world.

OK.

That there be a little foundation
on activated water and

how we started our journey so
back in two thousand and nine.

This.

Active ion is no longer in business but

they actually introduced
us to activate water.

And we that was the first time
we experiment with ideas so

what we did was we did a pilot program.

About a couple of zones and
we bought these devices and

we actually did some testing and

to see exactly did it work did it do what
it said it was going to do and along with

that we had to get some equipment
like to a T P meter to registered and

to exactly test these areas so
doing our process as we found out that and

I'll go with this doing the slab
presentation that it actually

clean just as good if not better than
registered disinfected cleaner so

we ran it like that we ran it for about
six months and before we began to kind of

roll it out to campus and and we were we
were pleased with the results so these

are just some of our wards and recognition
over the years that we've we've.

Acquired in advance that police.

Again so

we named our program renewable cleaning.

Because we're saying it kind of goes
beyond green cleaning takes advantage of

technology instead of traditional methods
of cleaning chemicals to clean indoor

air quality protect public health and
position Georgia Tech as a leader and

sustainability renewable
clean as a safe healthy way

to maintain quality this economy twenty
years ago when I had a look at more hair.

Some of the technology here we use on
campus to achieve some of the things that

we do so right now I'm doing a little
transition from active on so

best the company we got started we've
activated ward in two thousand and nine so

and twelve two thousand and
twelve that company went out of business

the fortunate thing for us was that
some of the same engineers actually

started the company called Jenny on and
they brought on a new line of

technology equipment that we were excited
about that continued our program and

one of them was the Mercer claim that
gadget to the far right that actually

helped to make batches
of cleaner disinfectant.

Window Cleaner heavy duty
an all purpose cleaner and

these just piece of equipment that we use
here on campus like this scrubber here is

basically we use nothing but
water but it converts into.

Eyes water to clean our campus OK.

These two gadgets again the other one
is emersed to cling to and to flow but

these two items make our
chemical right now where our

water which we call that
on site generation so

we transitioned from using as
Bill Nye explained Bagley and

they were using a small amount of electric
charge to create national bubbles to do

the cleaning so now we transition to use
and salt to make cleaning chemicals and

basically what we're doing is just an PH
levels based on what we want to cling

if we want to use window cleaner or
all purpose cleaner or disinfectant So

basically the salt levels just using this
machine to make the solution for us.

Looks like please.

More about evolution will continue.

Again advance.

So.

Measuring some of the rule results so
back in two thousand and eight.

So back in two thousand and eight I
think that figure there's eighteen fifty

seeing thousand and five eighty one That's
how much chemicals we were using to clean

the campus here in two thousand and eight
so fast forward to what we are now two

thousand and sixteen with Nineteen
Eighty-Four gallons of chemical so

that was the amount of chemical reduction
that we took over that eight year period

we started out with you know eight hundred
thousand gallons and now we're around like

one thousand nine hundred so that was
like a ninety one percent reduction

of chemicals that we no longer
use on this campus to clean in

terms of cost reductions as you can see
about sixty five percent right there.

And basically.

In terms of savings the amount of money
we save in terms of making this this does

move not only cost if fission but
also clinic campus a lot better is that we

projected the cost that it would have cost
us we if we continue on that route as we

were in ninety eight in two thousand and
eight we were at ninety seven thousand.

Dollars in chemical costs annually and

we reduce debt to thirty
three thousand some change so

if we in that eight year period if we use
projections start on two thousand and

eight that's what it would have cost us
seven hundred eighty thousand dollars and

Kemel cost but we didn't pay that and
doing about it know how much we say.

That's a question too because you get
awarded if you get it if you get it right

you get a gift nobody want to guess.

Good question good answer but.

I also want to.

Close.

He was close to.

One more so that's what we actually spent.

And the cost savings is.

Four hundred ninety two thousand and
some change so

I mean I guess we got to give away OK.

So basically as you can see we save
a bunch of money by going with a chemical

free cleaning right here it's
convinced that for for me.

So I spoke about the A.T.P.
meter and measuring cling and

how we go around check in sites on
campus see how well the cleaning so

industry have what they call A.T.P. meter
there's a lot of charm but I'm just using

an acronym you can look it up and Google
it later figure out what it means but

basically we swap areas on campus
surfaces and we get a reading So

anything from zero to ten is
considered ultra clean very clean

from eleven to thirty good including
thirty one to eighty so forth and so

on anything past a thousand is
considered filthy dirty completely so

we did some testing on campus
is going to dance that.

The building that I am
actually housed in building so

we test some particular areas we swab
the area before we did in the cleaning and

we got some readings here and.

After that we actually.

Used some disinfectant cleaner and

we clean the area and
we got a lower reading the first one for

example two and
then we used the A.T.P. meter and

then we used the time to iron eight and
we took a read and as you can see

that repeats itself is that activate
it water was cleaning a lot better

than hospital grade disinfected and just
in every case it beat it out it beat out.

Traditional disinfectant and
another tool that we use is the and

we got those those tools back there in
the back of the blower we disinfect

campus now I can't go around disinfecting
the whole fog a whole campus but

there are some areas that we do
religiously like the athletic facility and

the day care we actually go through those
buildings nightly and Foghat out that

we clean them and this is some testing
that we also did to show you exactly.

Swab an area before and after you can see
the numbers been significantly decreased

by using water so
we've been using the program for

dates back to zero nine and and then we
transition to Jenny on in two thousand and

twelve so we feel that we've been having
great results I don't know of any.

Infection or anything on campus
that's been tied to our cleaning.

So we have the process in place for

quite a quite a bit I have
some of the some of the.

Representatives here from Jenny on one
to sponsor the trio machine who Chris.

Is their company that we were we partner
with as well as softly sling we can

partner with them for the past twenty
years so they can help work with us

to build our green cleaning program as
well as our chemical free program here.

And.

Back in two thousand and
twelve we go I guess at least here.

There's been time you might you might said
you've had your watershed moment mine was

back in February twelfth when we had the
senior leadership the president provost

the cabinet came down to actually
facilities department and

I had an opportunity just
nervous me right there.

And Dr Peterson the president of
Georgia Tech on our green clean our

water program so I thought that
was very humbling you know that.

Senior leadership came to our department
was very interested in the program that

we had in place that was that
was my Watership moment here.

OK I'm down to my last five minutes and

I'm open up if anybody have
any questions for me yes ma'am

sure a good question thank you so
sure how does the staff feel

about using on eyes water and the safety
aspect so that is a very good question

because when we actually did the pilot
program back in two thousand and nine.

The fact that the water didn't
have any smell they weren't sure

it was doing the cleaning things like that
so and once they got used to the fact that

you know we do a lot of training
that the water clean just it's good

they actually was very supportive of the
program in fact they're the one that makes

it work because if the custodian I
happen would it was certainly sabotage.

But they've been very supportive of it and
also another reason what started

this too is early in my career here
we had a building on campus a name

I won't say that a professor as well that
we actually could not clean and sanitize

the building because of health issues the
person had some type of allergy issues so

we were told to just clean it with water
and that was a big concern every time we

had to clean that facility because we knew
we weren't cleaning it so that set me on

a journey as to what can what alternate
thing that we could do and this kind of

really fell in line with what we were
where we will go in and out program but

as far as employees they they've been
very supportive of the program and

I'm very pleased by that yes.

Yes you're absolutely right.

Yeah actually I was point
to write gentlemen next

Dr Peterson Provost Prof actually authored
a presentation back in twelve he was so

moved by it and interested we had further
discussions because his wife won it

he purchased the uniforms wife so but
yeah they do make residential units for

people who want to buy one at home but
I have to say that active I on again

that company actually went out of business
back in two thousand and twelve but

Jenny on we don't use the triggers or
devices but we used to use a similar

solution and more questions.

Yes ma'am.

No we didn't we did when we first bought
the units they were like three hundred

dollars apiece and I had to buy about two
hundred fifty so we had to had a structure

sign and I process where the staff will
come in and pick up the assignments with

the units every day sign him and
sign him out but actually it was

more efficient with those units and I was
very sorry that the company went out of

business because it was it was like easy
easier to train because you just spray and

wipe and it was in of it you don't have
to worry about mixing different type of

solutions and that type thing but
time was as far as training.

No it didn't didn't take
any extra time for us.

But again like I said the staff been very
supportive and that I'm very thankful for

any more questions thank you now.

Thank you thank you.