Efficiency - Case Studies

A brand new 4-star hotel in central Glasgow, Scotland, is benefitting from a comprehensive Lochinvar heating and hot water package of heat pump, boilers, storage vessel, and water heaters. The Maldron Hotel The Maldron Hotel in Renfrew Street is just a short walk from both of Glasgow’s major rail stations – Central and Queen Street and a 15-minute drive from Glasgow International Airport. It is just minutes away from the city’s famous Sauchiehall Street shopping area and next...

Students and staff in the San Felipe Del Rio Consolidated Independent School District (SFDRCISD) are breathing easier with new district-wide indoor environmental quality enhancements. The school district teamed up with Trane® – by Trane Technologies., a global climate innovator – and Synexis® to improve the quality of indoor environment across the district’s five campuses in Texas. The district installed portable Synexis BioDefense Systems in every classroom in the dis...

CIAT UK is rolling out its automated indoor air quality (IAQ) system Epure® Dynamics for use in hospitality venues, offering hotels, restaurants and pubs enhanced levels of protection as they welcome back customers. The Epure Dynamic IAQ control system is available on CIAT fan coil units and ducted units and is part of #CIAT4life, a campaign to increase awareness of CIAT’s range of advanced IAQ  solutions and services. CIAT is part of Carrier Global Corporation, the global provid...

Aggreko is proud to announce that they have completed commissioning of the largest flare gas to power project in the Middle East to date, with 165 MW capacity. The plant is situated nearby the Saqala Field, Garmain block, in South East Kurdistan. The 165 MW modular power plant has run at full capacity for 72 hours in the project’s final site acceptance test (SAT), marking successful on-time, on-budget delivery. Flare gas to power project The plant is run on approximately 40 million squa...

Preston-based James Hall & Co. has taken delivery of three new rigid trucks, each specified with the company’s first Carrier Transicold Syberia MT (multi-temperature) engineless units – a move designed to improve the sustainability of the commercial vehicles working across its wholesale contract with international food retail chain, SPAR. Aligned with Carrier’s 2030 ESG goals to reduce customers’ carbon footprint by more than 1 gigaton, these engineless units will re...

Carrier AquaForce® 61XWHZE high-temperature heat pumps operating on ultra-low global warming potential (GWP) Hydro-Fluoro-Olefins (HFO) R-1234ze refrigerant have been chosen for E.ON's ground-breaking district heating and cooling scheme in the City of London. The project is anticipated to cut carbon emissions from heating and cooling by customers connected to E.On’s City of London network by up to 50% and will enhance the air quality in the city by reducing emissions. Carrier is...

Draeger’s Market is an upscale grocery chain with four successful stores located in the San Francisco Bay area, in California, USA. The Draeger’s legacy spans 95 years of serving families and culinary professionals in this area, specializing in gourmet items, produce, meat, wine, liquor, prepared bakery and deli foods, flowers and housewares. Draeger’s mission is to be the best in food, wine, and service. Everything from the design of the marketplace to the equipment inside su...

As the omicron variant is surging across the United States, Cassia Regional Hospital is shining a light on COVID-19 prevention. Intermountain Cassia Regional Hospital is using a variety of cutting-edge technology in the battle against COVID-19. Trying to disinfect their facility and keep people safe is a top priority for the hospital. Their newest weapon in the battle is a device that uses Ultraviolet (UV)-C light to destroy pesky microorganisms. 360-degree ultraviolet light “This...

Vons-Safeway-Albertsons has over 2,200 stores in the U.S.A., across 33 US states. It is the largest supermarket chain in California, and is among the largest grocers in the world. They have quietly built one of the most impressive environmental records of any retailer in the United States of America. Vons-Safeway-Albertsons has already replaced a significant amount of its shaded pole fan motors with electronically commutated motors. Vons-Safeway-Albertsons evaluated QM Power’s Q-Sync®...

Since being acquired by Daikin Group in 2017, and following the integration of Daikin’s UK commercial refrigeration offering into its portfolio, Hubbard Products Ltd. (Hubbard) has been at the forefront in the commercial refrigeration market in the United Kingdom and in Northern Europe. Daikin’s new factory for Hubbard Daikin’s new, £3.3 million, 7,500 sq. meters factory will give Hubbard Products Ltd. almost 60 per cent more production space, a significant increase in...

AleSmith Brewing Company is a San Diego based artisanal craft brewery that specializes in handcrafted ales inspired by the European classics. Deeply rooted in the amateur and craft brewing communities, AleSmith ales have continued to garner both national and international awards, as well as a loyal and rabid following among beer enthusiasts. AleSmith is home to the largest brewery tasting room in San Diego and is a frequent gold medal winner at International Beer Festivals. Challenges The ori...

Two new Burnham model MPC™ high-efficiency commercial boilers were recently installed by The Witmer Company of New Holland, PA in the historic “High Point” Mansion located in Hershey, PA. The Model MPC boilers will provide space heating for the 22-room Mansion which was built in 1908 as the home of Milton and Catherine Hershey. Mr. Hershey was the founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company, now known as The Hershey Company. Today, “High Point” Mansion serves as the h...

The historic mansions of Newport, RI are known for their elegance and remind their visitors of a bygone era of social and financial preeminence during the turn of the twentieth century in America. Cornelius Vanderbilt II, grandson of railroad industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) had the 70 room Italianrenaissance inspired mansion built on the site of a wood-framed house that was destroyed by fire in 1892. A year later, Architect Richard Morris Hunt, deployed an international team of c...

AET Flexible Space has just completed a full upgrade of the underfloor air conditioning system on the first floor of 16-18 Kirby Street, occupied by creative agency 7Fold. Refurbishments The 26,000 sq. ft., 1960’s post-war building was fully refurbished in 2006, enlarged and remodeled by Architect, Buckley Gray Yeoman, with underfloor air conditioning and raised access flooring installed throughout the seven floors. The existing system at Kirby Street is a CAM-C system with underfloor su...

Radisson RED London Heathrow and Radisson Hotel & Conference Centre London Heathrow, the largest hotel at the airport, have been equipped with the latest high-performance CIAT and Toshiba HVAC technology as part of a major refurbishment. The solution was provided by Toshiba Carrier UK Ltd (TCUK). CIAT and TCUK are part of Carrier Global Corporation, the provider of healthy, safe, sustainable and intelligent building and cold chain solutions. Air handling unit The recently rebranded four-s...

As part of the Evotech Technical Services Group, a national HVAC engineering company founded in 2003, Evotech Air Quality (Evotech) is a growing team of engineers, technicians and data scientists passionate about the air we breathe. Evotech helps UK businesses and organizations create safe working environments by transforming indoor air quality. They began offering the Airthings for Business solution in June 2020 for accurate, accessible air quality data. In this case study, Evotech shall explo...

Secure I.T. Environments Ltd, one of the UK’s design and build companies for modular, containerized, and micro data centers, announces that it has been awarded a contract to upgrade the air conditioning units at a Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust data center. The existing air conditioning solution had been in place since the data center was originally designed and built by Secure I.T. Environments in 2009 and 2010. Air handling systems The new contract will form part of the Trust&...

Florida Gators Sports Properties and Air Pros USA, a residential and commercial air conditioning service company and the official Air Conditioning partner for Gators football, demonstrated gratitude for Veterans at the Florida Gators ‘saluting those who serve’ football game which took place on Saturday, November 13th. As part of the saluting those who serve game at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, Air Pros CEO Anthony Perera was recognized on the field and surprised the five local Veterans...

Carrier Global Corporation, a global provider of healthy, safe, sustainable, and intelligent building and cold chain solutions is delivering a full suite of innovative building technologies at Emory Healthcare’s new cutting-edge Musculoskeletal Institute (MSKI) in Atlanta, Georgia. Advanced solutions Carrier and Emory are collaborating to implement advanced solutions from Carrier’s Healthy Buildings Program – including HVAC, building automation, fire detection, access, and vi...

It looks like something out of a science fiction movie, a 6-foot tall lightsaber on wheels that emits a deadly glow to invisible enemies. But it’s not fighting the Galactic Empire. The UVDI-360 is a health care lifesaver, using ultraviolet radiation to destroy more than 30 high-risk microorganisms, including the coronavirus. The Lufkin State Supported Living Center Environmental Services staff have used this $55,000 deep cleaning machine at the facility since 2014. Due to a large donation...

A historic Art Deco icon meets cutting-edge luxury at The Sinclair, a Marriott Autograph Collection hotel. Built during the early 20th Century oil boom of Texas, the Sinclair Building has stood as one of the most recognizable landmarks of downtown Fort Worth, since 1929. The Sinclair, a historic hotel Designed to reflect the Gilded Age Art Deco style of the roaring 1920s, the Sinclair Building served the surrounding business community and employed thousands of Texans over the decades before un...

The owner of a 107-year old home sought an advanced hydronic heating solution for a major basement finishing project and to alleviate his existing heating woes on the first and second floors of the residence. The installation of an innovative and highly efficient boiler from Weil-McLain helped make the basement remodel a success and the family's home comfortably warm throughout. Hydronic heating solution Michael Bartholomay-Berreth, owner of the 2,700 square-foot, two-story Craftsman residenc...

Florida Gators Sports Properties and Air Pros USA, a residential and commercial air conditioning services company and the official Air Conditioning partner for Gators football, came together for the annual ‘Saluting Those Who Serve’ initiative to recognize a local Veteran. Working with the Alachua County Veteran Services Division, Air Pros USA and the Florida Gators awarded 88-year-old Eddie Thomas, a decorated Korean War Veteran, with a brand-new air conditioning unit and installat...

St. Vincent Fishers Hospital in Fishers, Indiana is part of the largest Catholic, a not-for-profit healthcare system in the United States of America. It serves its community, not only by providing the utmost in compassionate care, but also by implementing excellence in environmental stewardship, by obtaining LEED certification, under the healthcare rating system, and by being the first hospital in Indiana to do so. This explains why, in 2013, when St. Vincent Fishers Hospital needed to expand i...

New Zealand-based Warm NZ has installed BoilerMag’s magnetic technology filters at the iconic QBE Centre in New Zealand’s most populous city, Auckland. Built upon the historical 125 Queen Street, the QBE Centre is a recognizable and historic landmark within Auckland and was home to the original head office of the Bank of New Zealand. With an eye-catching Category 1 Heritage Listed façade dating back to the 1840s, the center has recently undergone a state-of-the-art refit maki...

As a 22-year veteran of the dry-cleaning industry that has successfully opened several dry-cleaning facilities, Piyush Bhula knows a thing or two about operating a business that delivers an amazing dry-cleaning experience. That’s why, when he needed to replace his boiler at his Majik Touch Cleaners in Sawanee, Georgia, he contacted Gulf States Laundry Machinery, a pioneer in the distribution of dry-cleaning and commercial laundry equipment in the Atlanta area. Dry-Cleaning market At Gul...

Aggreko, the provider of mobile and modular power solutions, has partnered with the 43rd Ryder Cup to provide a complete power solution for the prestigious international golf championship.  The Ryder Cup The Ryder Cup will take place from September 24-26, 2021, at Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wisconsin. The 7,790-yard course on the shore of Lake Michigan will host nearly 50,000 spectators each day. Aggreko will provide onsite power, heating, and cooling for over 100 tents and facili...

  Johnson Controls, the global pioneer for smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, announced it is partnering with Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority (DSOA), the regulatory body of Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO), the integrated free zone technology park, and the Rochester Institute of Technology - Dubai (RIT Dubai) to deliver the region's first-of-its-kind smart, healthy, and sustainable new campus. "Across the world, Johnson Controls helps businesses, governments and global institutions meet a...

Heatmasters has finished commissioning an electrical heat treatment furnace for a foundry in Europe. With a loading capacity of 9000 kg and an operating temperature of 1000°C, the furnace was designed according to the customers’ needs, in order to further expand their production capabilities. Electrical heat treatment furnace The furnace includes Heatmasters’ famous digital temperature control system and full automation of two wagons and pneumatic doors. It also implements adva...