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Minnesota School Combines Indoor Air Quality With Energy Efficiency
Students and teachers in Red Wing, Minnesota are enjoying a new high school that uses the latest in efficient, quiet HVAC technology to provide optimal indoor air quality. While the increase in outdoor air supply could not come too soon for those who are sensitive to poor indoor air quality,...
Phoenix Area Hospital Meets Challenging Construction Schedule Using Custom Air Handlers
Plans were developed in 1999 for a 160,000 square-foot expansion of Phoenix Area Hospital, ranging from one to four stories and encompassing six surgical suites, labor and delivery rooms, an intensive care area, patient rooms, an endoscopy lab, and a children's center. The expansion to the existing 500,000 square-foot facility...
Virginia Medical Center Chooses Screw Chillers for New Central Plant
Southside Regional Medical Center in Petersburg, Virginia, was depending on an aging chiller plant, one that was showing decreases in both reliability and efficiency. The HVAC system consisted of two chillers supplying air handlers throughout the medical center building. As the chilled water and ice making performance of the Trane...
Medical Center Chooses Chiller Compressor Retrofit
Duke University Medical Center is an internationally renowned medical teaching, research and treatment center. Recently, HVAC foreman Louis Maness was considering options for a CFC-11 chiller in the medical center's Sands Building. This machine was an older 1,000-ton single-stage dual-compressor centrifugal machine operating with a rooftop cooling tower. They can...
Rooftop Systems Provide Flexibility and Low First Cost With Tilt-up Construction
Ingram Micro Inc. is a leading distributor of information technology products and services worldwide. Stan Szafirowski is an Ingram Micro air conditioning specialist responsible for operating and maintaining the HVAC facilities in the three buildings. According to Szafirowski, all three buildings rely on packaged rooftop comfort equipment. The rooftop units...
New Office Facility Uses Custom Air Handlers to Maintain Ideal Work Environment
Beverly Enterprises and its operating subsidiaries comprise a leading provider of post-acute health care in the United States. The Tracer Summit system enables Don Stewart, supervisor of facilities engineering, to main comfort and ventilation levels at the high standards set by Beverly and the system designer. Employee comfort and well-being...
Major Chiller Replacement Project Completed Over Three Day Weekend
Detailed planning and a tight project team were the keys to a major chiller plant replacement in a 320,000 square foot commercial office building over a holiday weekend. Crocker's investigation of the building prior to acquisition revealed shortcomings in the HVAC system. The major system components were two 400-ton centrifugal...
SAS Institute Opts for "Cadillac" HVAC System
After more than 20 years in business, SAS Institute is the largest privately owned software company in the world and one of the top 10 largest independent software vendors. The SAS Institute campus now includes 16 buildings, most of which were built using split-system heat pump HVAC systems. The SAS...
Energy Star Building Performance Showcased at Trane Technology Center: La Crosse, Wisconsin
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Energy Star Showcase Buildings Program was created in 1994 to encourage and highlight improved building energy efficiency. One of the important steps was the upgrading of the building's 2,800 lamp fluorescent lighting system with significantly more efficient T-8 lamps and matching ballasts. The building...
TSYS Corporate Campus: Columbus, Georgia
Based in Columbus, Georgia, TSYS is an 80-percent-owned subsidiary of Synovus Financial Corp., a Fortune 500 corporation that trades on the New York Stock Exchange and was named 'The Best Company to Work for in America' by Fortune magazine. Packaged cooling units with VAV distribution key to advanced zoned control...
Quiet Comfort and HVAC System Security Featured at New Enterprise Rent-A-Car Headquarters
The title is claimed by Enterprise Rent-A-Car, based on its total rental fleet size and number of offices. Enterprise takes a lower public profile than many other firms, yet is aggressive in its growth and goals. The privately-owned company is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. The computer facility is one...
Houston Industries Plaza Renovation Includes Unusual Remote Ice-Storage Plant
A comprehensive building renovation project in downtown Houston offers an intriguing view of the potential of thermal storage for building comfort control, along with many other energy and structural innovations. Trane Houston sales office was closely involved in the project, from being chosen to provide the chillers and auxiliary chiller...
Preserving the Past for the Future
Providing a comfortable environment for Monticello visitors is important, but the HVAC system is critical to preserving the structure and the priceless artifacts found within. Monticello was first air conditioned in 1954, but the HVAC system had not been significantly upgraded until 1994. It now uses a chilled water system...
Washington Monument Restoration Features New HVAC System
With the National Park Service's $4.4 million public/private restoration of the 144-year-old Washington Monument nearly complete, and as scaffolding comes down, the official re-opening of the monument is scheduled for Summer 2000. Summer Consultants Inc., of McLean, Virginia, designed the new air conditioning system, working with engineers at Trane office...
The Octagon Gets New HVAC System
The Octagon, in the heart of Washington DC, has seen not only sun, rain, lilac and larkspur during its nearly 200 years; it has also played an important role in the history of the United States and of the world. Included in the work was installation of the latest in...
STAPLES Center Features Multipurpose Comfort System
On October 17, 1999, a rollicking concert by Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band was the opening event for STAPLES Center in Los Angeles. Groundbreaking for the new facility had been a scant 18 months earlier. When the facility was designed, strong emphasis was placed on customer comfort. Seating,...
Pro Player Stadium Now has Cooling and Electrical Capacity to Spare
Miami's Pro Player Stadium is one of only a few sites in the U.S. and Canada that host both professional football and major league baseball. The stadium building includes six theme restaurants as well as the preparation and holding areas for grandstand and luxury box concession services. The stadium was...
Queen Mary Pampers "Passengers" With U.S. EPA Award Winning Air Conditioning System
Recent updates to the Hotel Queen Mary's air conditioning system are helping to ensure that the ship's guests are kept comfortable while providing the hotel owners with award-winning and HVAC industry-leading efficiency and operating energy savings that will top $100,000 per year. Today, the Queen Mary is served by land-based...
Fort Smith Public Schools-Fort Smith, Arkansas: Modernizing Older School Buildings With PACT
The Fort Smith School System has a stable enrollment and schools that date from 1908 to the 1980s. Many of the older schools have boiler heating systems and window air conditioners. The goal of this project was to bring contemporary standards of comfort and efficiency to school buildings. The project...
Birdville High School Campus-North Richland Hills, Texas: Geothermal System Proves to Be Buried Treasure of Birdville High
Located in the Fort Worth, Texas suburb of North Richland Hills, Birdville High School BHS makes a real presence among the expanding residential and commercial areas developing around it. The Birdville Independent School District BISD was faced with a number of challenges when designing the HVAC system for BHS. The...
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Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services: 541611
