Last year, the Evansville ARC (EARC), a nonprofit adult disability rehab and child daycare facility located in Indiana, was feeling the recession’s effects in decreased revenues from fundraising. To offset the bottom line, EARC’s executive director turned to contractor J.E. Shekell (Evansville, Ind.) for guidance in how to seek savings opportunities in utility bills. EARC had been a commercial maintenance agreement customer with J.E. Shekell for 25 years, and its 36-year-old building was ripe for improvement.