Scott Guzik

Scott serves as Chief Engineer at the Richard J. Daley Center, where he and his team handle all engineering-related duties, including a wide range of maintenance, upgrade, and monitoring tasks and projects. Scott is responsible for monitoring monthly energy consumption and general energy usage, scheduling, and delivering engineering and electrical personnel’s payroll. Scott is also in charge of delegating preventative maintenance for the building and the Daley Plaza to the many individuals on his team. Additionally, Scott and his team coordinate all electrical and sound requirements for Daley Plaza events as well as perform annual life safety system tests and inspections. He also coordinates with staff and contractors for safety training, actively participating in drills and disaster planning.

Scott has 21 years of experience as an engineer, with 20 years of his career spent at the Daley Center. In 2021, Scott earned the ABLE Certificate of Excellence for his continued efforts. Scott’s team has also helped the Daley Center become more efficient through several upgrades. His team has retrofitted the building’s 1960s-era boilers into the modern era and has performed computational fluid dynamics retrofitting of the building’s domestic water pump, allowing the Daley Center to save $50,000 and one million gallons of water annually.

 

Scott increased the overall efficiency of the Daley Center by setting up Building Engines’ Work Order Management software and inputting relevant information, including 480 scheduled preventative maintenance measures annually. Since Scott’s been with the Daley Center, his efforts have combined with the entire management team, leading the property to earn LEED Gold recertification in 2022 and Energy Star recertification in 2020. And in 20XX, Scott and his team successfully installed a snow melt system on Daley Center property; the system saves $20,000 annually by eliminating snow removal and is also a benefit to the Daley Plaza winter events like the renowned Christkindlmarket.