Case Study: YMCA of Delaware achieves $1.5M+ in cost avoidance and 26% energy savings with Brightly Software

YMCA of Delaware Sees Millions in Cost Avoidance in Over a Decade with Brightly

YMCA of Delaware, led by Christopher Ryan, Group VP of Buildings and Properties, oversees nine locations plus seasonal and resident camps in Wilmington, DE. The organization faced fragmented facilities operations with no consistent system to track work requests, preventive maintenance or energy use, which caused follow-through and timeliness issues across branches.

By implementing Brightly (formerly Dude Solutions) facility-management and utility-tracking software, the Y centralized work orders, PM scheduling and energy analytics. Over more than a decade this drove more than $1.5 million in operations cost avoidance, a 26% reduction in energy costs versus 2008, completion of over 70,000 work requests (11,209 in 2018 versus 3,744 in 2007), 96% on-time corrective work order completion in 2017, and $263,000 under budget on facilities operating expenses that year.

YMCA of Delaware

Christopher Ryan

Group Vice President, Buildings and Properties