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California University Goes Green with Energy Efficient Contracting
Loma Linda University Retrofits Campus Buildings
By: Trane - Monday, February 26, 2007
Source: Trane
When Loma Linda University officials decided to upgrade their heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, they looked for a provider that could help them meet California’s high standards for energy efficiency. They wanted more than to simply replace older, failing equipment—they wanted to:
Be more environmentally responsible
Meet state regulations for green building
Create a high performance sustainable university campus
Partner with a quality company to install these enhancements
Loma Linda operates two central plants. The plant serving the university hospital is all-electric, whereas the plant serving the university campus works with the power generation plant. Both plants required system upgrades.
Loma Linda and Goss Engineering, hired by Loma Linda, selected Trane’s contracting group to replace and install environmentally responsible systems to meet the comfort demands of the university’s students and professors as well as optimize the healing environment of the university hospital, increasing comfort levels of staff and patients and improving patient outcome. Trane provided the most energy efficient system on the market today.
Trane will supply Loma Linda with two CenTraVac® centrifugal chillers and two absorption chillers. By replacing two smaller and older centrifugal chillers and two smaller and older absorption chillers, Trane will help increase the plant’s capacity by almost 1,500 tons of cooling capacity. Loma Linda also selected Trane to provide the installation of these chillers and upgrade the central plants. The project is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2007.
"Over the past 10 years, Trane has been steadily increasing the contracting side of its business, and we pride ourselves on the delivery of quality projects," said Doug Walker, account manager for Trane. "Loma Linda dealt directly with the manufacturer, so there’s a single point of accountability for ensuring that the system is not only designed and manufactured, but installed and maintained."
Trane’s CenTraVac chillers are the world’s most energy efficient and most balanced environmentally performing large chillers. If every chiller was as efficient as the CenTraVac, the amount of harmful emissions not released would be equivalent to planting nearly 1.4 million trees per year for 24 years. Trane is the only company that manufactures absorption products within the U.S.
Loma Linda University is a Seventh-day Adventist educational health-sciences institution offering more than 55 programs to 4,000 students. The university is located in Southern California. Trane has been providing maintenance services for Loma Linda for 19 years.
Trane, the air conditioning systems and services business of American Standard Companies, is a leading global provider of indoor comfort systems and comprehensive facility solutions. Its offerings include energy efficient heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems, service and parts support, advanced building controls and financing solutions. Each Trane system is designed to meet the specific needs of customers who want heating, cooling, dehumidifying and air cleaning systems for residential, commercial, institutional and industrial applications. In 2005, Trane contributed $6 billion to American Standard's total sales of $10.3 billion. For more information, visit the Trane Web site at www.trane.com.
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