Case Studies

Situated on the Wellington Waterfront, the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is a major icon in the capital city.

Founded in 1837, Rush University Medical Center (RUMC) is now Chicago’s second-largest hospital with multi-story buildings that dominate the city’s medical district.

West Nippissing General Hospital currently has a single 150 ton low-pressure water-cooled chiller from a competing manufacturer. Later, a second air-cooled chiller was installed outside the kitchen area to provide added capacity and a backup system.

The Board of Governors of Exhibition Place needed to replace the existing mechanical systems in the Queen Elizabeth Building at Exhibition Place, Toronto. This goal was to be achieved at the lowest feasible cost.

The existing chiller plant at the Hôtel-Dieu D’Arthabaska was more than 30 years old. It consisted of a single 120 ton low pressure chiller. It was serving a number of air handling units and departments, including magnetic resonance imaging, radiology, pediatric, and the kitchen.

Hôpital Louis-H. Lafontaine, located in Montreal, did not have an existing cooling system in the building. The hospital was involved in the first phase of reorganizing and renovating existing space in order to convert it into office space.

Affiliated with the Carolinas Medical Center, it is located adjacent to The University Hospital at the intersection of North Tryon Street and WT Harris Boulevard, in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Eastman Business Park (EBP), located in Rochester, New York is a 1,200-acre R&D and manufacturing campus with over 16 million square feet of multi-scale manufacturing, distribution, lab and office space.

Arnprior & District Memorial Hospital in Ontario, had been working with the Ministry of Health for several years to replace their existing chiller.

Because the law requires the animals to be housed indoors, the cost of providing reliable air con-ditioning at the lowest possible cost of energy and maintenance was mandatory.

When the building owner is NFL Films, the failure of the HVAC system can cause a lot more than discomfort — it can be catastrophic.

The replacement of an older, less energy efficient chiller at Urban West Business Park building in Walnut Creek, California, with an efficient energy saving SMARDT chiller, has brought impressive energy savings for this customer.