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Kingston General Hospital-Kingston, Ontario: Ontario Hospital Follows Step-by-Step Approach to Update Chiller Plant
At Kingston General Hospital in Kingston, Ontario, director of plant engineering and maintenance Joel Carr-Braint knew that far too many energy dollars were being used to operate an aging chiller plant. Most of the chillers dated to the 1968-1975 time period, with typical operating efficiencies around 1.0 kW/ton. Yet plant...
Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital-Roanoke, Virginia: Systematic Chiller Plant Improvement for Operating Savings
The Carilion Health System includes ten hospitals with over 900 physicians serving western Virginia. The hospital has systematically upgraded its chiller plant and chilled water delivery system, its building control system, and has even participated in Trane field tests of new chiller technology. In 2001, the hospital launched a major...
Citrus Valley Medical Center-Los Angeles, California: Variable-Frequency Chiller Drives Enhance Hospital Efficiency
Citrus Valley Medical Center is a not for-profit health care facility serving the San Gabriel Valley, in the north central Los Angeles region.
Regions Hospital-St. Paul, Minnesota: Duplex Chillers Solve Plant Capacity Challenge for Hospital
Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota recently installed two large chillers to overcome a pressing plant capacity problem. According to hospital chief engineer Mike Barnaal, the new plant met several needs, including improving plant efficiency, serving a new wing on the hospital, and replacing two older chillers, which were no...
Covenant HealthCare: A Comprehensive Solution: Saginaw, Michigan: Growing Hospital Continues Focus on Outstanding Healthcare by Outsourcing
Covenant HealthCare is the largest healthcare provider in the Saginaw region. Hospital campus consisting of two hospital buildings, an emergency center, and a medical office building. The project objective was to create a solution that minimizes initial capital costs and maximizes operational efficiency while enabling Covenant to dedicate more of...
From Cotton Field to Hospital in 15 Months
The Willis-Knighton Health System serves the Shreveport-Bossier City area of Louisiana with a family of hospitals and clinics. In 1997, the corporation identified a growing need for additional general hospital space in the Pierremont area in Shreveport and began an aggressive design and construction program. The medical group retained Purtle...
Ontario Hospital Follows Step-By-Step Approach to Update Chiller Plant
Kingston General Hospital is the major tertiary care referral facility complementing community hospitals and other health care providers serving Southeastern Ontario. Three of the four chillers serving the hospital were over 30 years old, and used R-11 refrigerant. The machines selected were two Trane CenTraVac centrifugal chillers, Model CVHF, rated...
Systematic Chiller Plant Improvement for Operating Savings
The Carilion Health System includes ten hospitals with over 900 physicians serving western Virginia. There was a need for additional chiller capacity to serve the growing facility. They determined that there was potential for improving the functionality and efficiency of the existing chillers by putting them on a common chilled...
Variable-Frequency Chiller Drives Enhance Hospital Efficiency
Citrus Valley Medical Center is a not-for-profit health care facility serving the San Gabriel Valley, in the north-central Los Angeles region. The two campuses each have central chiller plants in separate buildings, with two Trane CenTraVac 450-ton centrifugal chillers, Model CVHE, in each mechanical plant. All four of the chillers...
Duplex Chillers Solve Plant Capacity Challenge for Hospital
Regions Hospital is a leading Trauma Level I hospital, the descendant of Anchor Hospital created in St. Paul in 1872. At the main campus in 1999, the growing problem of an aging chiller plant was brought to acute status by plans to add a 140,000 square foot wing to the...
University of Florida Campus: Gainesville, Florida - Dispersed Chiller Plants With Central Control
By any measure, the University of Florida in Gainesville is large. Because of the campus location in central Florida, building cooling is essential. Nearly all of the cooling in the major academic buildings, laboratories, and health care facilities is by chilled water. The decision to use area chiller plants was...
Willis-Knighton Health System: Shreveport, Louisiana - From Cotton Field to Hospital in 15 Months
The Willis-Knighton Health System serves the Shreveport-Bossier City area of Louisiana with a family of hospitals and clinics. As a not-for-profit health corporation with a history extending nearly a century, it strives to anticipate the medical needs of its region. The corporation identified a growing need for additional general hospital...
Southside Regional Medical Center: Petersburg, Virginia - Facility Bases Design on Need for Reliability and Efficiency
Southside Regional Medical Center is an acute care general hospital with associated facilities in Petersburg, Virginia, 20 miles south of Richmond. The challenge was one familiar to many hospital facilities administrators. A medical center depended on an aging chiller plant, one that was showing decreases in both reliability and efficiency....
Covenant HealthCare-A Comprehensive Solution: Saginaw, Michigan - Growing Hospital Continues Focus on Outstanding Healthcare by Outsourcing
Covenant HealthCare is the largest healthcare provider in the Saginaw region. With more than 700 beds and a complete range of medical services, Covenant stands ready to meet the growing health care needs of this 14-county area. The project objective was to create a solution that minimizes initial capital costs...
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Boomer Retirement Trends
Long Term Projected Rise in Healthcare, Gas Prices and Cost of Living Have Boomers Looking Abroad for Retirement LOS ANGELES -- An ever-increasing rise in the cost of living has Boomers concerned about life after work. In search of affordable healthcare, reasonable gas prices, and a lifestyle comparable...
Imported lumber
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] American Lumber Co. Booth #1601 The American Lumber Co. announces it is now delivering imported hardwood Lumber to customers throughout North America. American Lumber says stringent guidelines already applied to American standard and proprietary grades are now being applied to more than...
WABCO Directors Approve Cash Dividend
BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WABCO Holdings Inc. , announced today that its board of directors has approved a cash dividend of 7 cents per share of common stock. The dividend is payable on June 20, 2008, to shareholders of record on June 3, 2008. ...
Wooowork career alliance calls for contributors
RESTON, VA -- The Architectural Woodwork Institute has volunteered and been selected as the secretariat for an industry-wide alliance devoted to developing and setting skill standards for woodworkers Volunteers are writing the unified North American Standard of Tool Skills & Evaluations from all parts of the advanced wood...
Imported lumber
American Lumber Co. The American Lumber Co. announces it is now delivering imported hardwood Lumber to customers throughout North America. American Lumber says stringent guidelines already applied to American standard and proprietary grades are now being applied to more than a dozen imports from South America and Africa,...
Ziff Davis Enterprise Announces 2008 CIO Summit
CNN POLITICAL ANALYST PAUL BEGALA TOPS SPEAKER PROGRAM FEATURING CIOS FROM DISCOVER FINANCIAL, LIONSGATE, NISSAN, AMERICAN STANDARD, AND TOP CHINESE BANK AND PHONE COMPANY NEW YORK, April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Ziff Davis Enterprise announced today it will hold its fourth annual CIO Summit May 6 to 9,...
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Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services: 541611
