SES Expert Bernd Heinz Schlinghoff in JLSS

Our long-term plan to gradually renovate our old buildings includes five
stages:
1- Building-renovation work that includes repartitioning large rooms and
replacing old toilets and washrooms.
2- Changing old wooden or metal windows and replacing them with double
glazed aluminum windows.
3- Installing solar water heating panels.
4- Improving energy efficiency of central heating systems.
5- Installing UPS systems for providing battery lighting during power
cuts to reduce the use of power generators.
These steps are aimed at improving the standard of life for our boarding
students, making our building environmentally friendly, and reducing our
enormous expenditure on diesel and electricity bills.
As the building that houses the three boarding homes for vocational
students has been renovated, all its old windows were replaced with
double glazed aluminum windows, and it was fitted with solar water
heating panels, it was time to invite an expert from Germany to help
improve the energy efficiency of our central heating systems.

We
brought this need to SES (Senior Expert Services) in Germany who
regularly provide the necessary experts that our school needs. They
responded to our request by sending SES central heating expert Mr. Bern
Heinz Schlinghoff who arrived to our school on Sunday 2 May 2010.
Mr. Schlinghoff, who is a very friendly and pleasant person with an
excellent command of English, turned out to be just the right person we
needed. He is a very highly qualified professional in his field with a
life-time experience and most advanced knowhow of the modern
technologies available in his field.
He spent the first day going around our buildings and checking our
central heating systems. He worked out a whole plan of what needs to be
done to reduce energy waste of up to 25%. His next step was to go to
Zahle and Beirut to find if the necessary parts are available locally.
His trip was successful and he was able to get all the parts needed for
implementing his plan for the first building. The following days he
spent training Mr. George Shawool of our maintenance department, to do a
sample job of every type of work he needs to do.

Mr. Schlinghoff prepared a plan for the whole school of the necessary
steps that need to be taken to improve energy efficiency. This included
improving the insulation of pipes and burners, installing temperature
sensors and pumps for hot water systems, replacing the radiator faucets
with modern thermostatically controlled valves, installing and operating
valves to control which parts of our buildings are heated during which
hours, and replacing energy inefficient systems with modern efficient
alternatives. He supervised and directed the work of Mr. Shawool giving
him the necessary advice and technical know how to do a perfect job.
He returned to Germany on Friday 14 May, but he will also continue to
monitor the implementation of the work by email in order to help us
improve the efficiency of all our old systems.
We express our most sincere gratitude to Mr. Schlinghoff for the amazing
work he did for our school, for his wonderful friendship and kindness,
and for his willingness to continue to support us even from Germany. We
especially thank SES for sending us such a highly qualified professional
who is also a wonderful person. His work will save us enormous amounts
of money in the future and will help us be more environmentally
friendly.