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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.
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...
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...
Graco Links Multiple Sites With Single Building Automation System
Graco, a world leader in the manufacturing of fluid-handling systems and components, attributes its success to commitments in technical excellence, world-class manufacturing and superior customer service. Improved management of HVAC equipment schedules, increased workforce productivity through enhanced environmental conditions, enhanced equipment diagnostic capabilities, improved energy cost control and monitoring capabilities,...
Hines Buildings-Phoenix, Arizona: Hines Buildings Earn US EPA/DOE Energy Star Label for Buildings
Hines is a privately owned real estate firm, founded in 1957 and headquartered in Houston, Texas. The building was designed to meet ASHRAE Standard 90.1, which sets performance standards for energy use, indoor air quality, and outside air ventilation. An important part of controlling the building's energy usage is the...
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...
Attention to Detail Pays Off Refrigerant Management Key in Effective Asset Management
The corporate audit process is a mirror of the Hines corporate philosophy. The property manager or chief engineer alone can't speak for the building, but instead must list three operating engineers who have the expertise to speak on a given topic. Hines requires its property managers and chief engineers to...
Civic Center Music Hall-Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Air Handlers Get Rave Reviews for Acoustics
When the acoustic performance standards for the air handling equipment were set, we didn't think we could achieve it with cataloged equipment. Consulting engineer James Stewart describes one of the major acoustic challenges in the design for the recently-renovated Civic Center Music Hall in Oklahoma City. A major part of...
New Jersey College Continues to Benefit From Pioneering Geothermal System
Stockton College leads the way with innovative Earth-Coupled HVAC design. Dr. Lynn F. Stiles, professor of physics at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey is describing the background behind the installation of one of the world's largest single closed-loop geothermal HVAC systems, totaling 1,741 tons of installed geothermal heating/cooling...
PACT Case Study Shelby County Schools-Shelby County, Alabama: Growing School District Uses PACT for Needed Facility Improvements
Shelby County Schools is one of the fastest growing school districts in Alabama. The district consists of 28 schools and one administration building, encompassing 2.1 million square feet. The project objective is to create a self-funding project which simplifies the procurement process, addresses deteriorating facilities and provides a single point...
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...
Yorkdale Shopping Centre: Toronto, Ontario - A Popular Retail Destination Gets a Comfort System Remake
A large and popular shopping destination in Toronto is demonstrating the benefits of improving older comfort systems. Yorkdale Shopping Centre today encompasses over 2,000,000 square feet of retail area, and continues to evolve as the retail needs of the community change. The equipment selected was 11 Trane Voyager packaged rooftop...
Herman Miller MarketPlace: Zeeland, Michigan - Rooftop Comfort System Contributes to LEED Gold Rating
Herman Miller, Inc. is a leading global provider of office furniture and services for the workplace. The goal of the project was to create a prototype office environment that showcases practical applications of Herman Miller products and systems, while also serving as a working office for 450 Herman Miller employees...
Birdville High School Campus: North Richland Hills, Texas - Geothermal System Proves to Be a Buried Treasure for 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. By marrying the benefits of geothermal (ground-source) heating and cooling with Trane horizontal and vertical ground-source heat pumps and a Tracer...
Johnston County Schools: Johnston County, North Carolina - Air-Cooled Chillers, Ice Storage Provide Lifetime Savings for School System
The Johnston County Schools rely on air conditioning systems. Today, Johnston County is the fastest growing school district in the state, with an enrollment of 23,000, and adding over 1,000 students per year. The growth is attributable to its location within the growing Raleigh metropolitan area, and along the growing...
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...
Stockton College: Pomona, New Jersey - New Jersey College Continues to Benefit From Pioneering Geothermal System
The Richard Stockton College is an award-winning, mid-sized liberal arts and sciences college located in the southeastern New Jersey pinelands area. The school was planning replacement of its aging fleet of multi-zone rooftop HVAC units-most of which dated to the school's original construction in the early 1970s. A geothermal system...
Los Angeles Pierce College: Los Angeles, California - Pierce College Faces Comfort Challenge
The spacious 400-acre campus adjoining Winnetka Avenue is notable for its wooded park-like appearance. In the late 1990s, the administration studied future campus requirements. Needed improvements were identified, including new buildings, communications facilities, signs, and landscaping. Plans were also set for a broad lighting improvement program that would dramatically reduce...
Civic Center Music Hall: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Air Handlers Get Rave Reviews for Acoustics
The Music Hall has been a focal point in Oklahoma City for over six decades. Constructed of a very pale, fine-grained limestone, the building exterior is a strongly rectangular design with massive fluted pilasters, large lobby windows, and medallion-like relief carvings along the upper façade. Like the exterior, the building's...
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Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services: 541611
