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VIII BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 3 M.C . DEAN INC . today that use electric vehicles to go to and from work grow to ten percent tomorrow, and predicted to grow to 35 percent three years from now. But what the military is realizing is that the reliability of its workforce seriously depends on its ability to make charging available for them,” he describes. “That’s an investment that somebody’s got to make. Then there are maintenance challenges with these chargers. Once you put them on the ground, you’ve got to maintain them. So we’re paying attention to that, as well as to the fleet that’s got to be converted.” In the meantime, while M.C. Dean builds, operates, and maintains interconnected systems in some of the most sophisticated and complex buildings 14 days to withstand an energy disruption. That’s an executive order that came out in May 2021. So, it’s our job to make sure systems can withstand that 14-day disruption. Then there are water conservation practices in the new Inflation Reduction Act, and it’s our job to make sure our customers implement such requirements by the required date. Nobody knows our systems better than we do.” A system that the company is currently investigating and strategizing about is that of electric vehicle charging. “Take the Pentagon, for instance,” Tibbetts shares. “They’ve got a bus system that has to be converted, eventually, to battery. Maybe two percent of employees