Major Equipment Replacement
Provide a building system that is energy efficient, maximizing the available incentives while delivering the life cycle required by the building ownership. In addition, the design / build project required this to be done while the building was occupied.
600,000
Project Date: Summer 2016
The Challenge
The Toronto Hilton required a capital upgrade to replace their aging heating boiler plant. The existing equipment was approximately 30 years old and needed replacing.
The Solution
Climatech Inc. worked with a design partner to specify a new boiler plant that was the most efficient on the market, yet simple enough in it’s manufacture that it was easy to maintain and relatively inexpensive to repair as the system ages (we are leading edge but fiercely aware of the ongoing service and maintenance – the wrong equipment choice can be catastrophic; especially when it ages). We were able to design a system that was robust enough to stand the timeline required by the building life cycle and very efficient to the point of leading the market in efficiency.
The building is logistically challenging with little room for delivery and no staging area. The ground floor of the hotel is dedicated to the public. The boiler plant is located in the penthouse which requires new equipment to be brought up by elevator, then hoisted two floors to the boiler room level. The installation was relatively straight forward. The scope of work was to remove 10 atmospheric boilers and replace them with 8 high efficiency condensing boilers. I addition we upgraded the building pumps, expansion tanks, boiler control system and the natural gas piping and delivery.
Energy Conservation in a capital upgrade delivers a “win – win” . We provided a boiler plant that was able to deliver the heating required with fewer boilers than originally installed. In addition the new boilers were significantly more energy efficient. The end result was a natural gas savings that resulted in a 6 ½ year simple payback and an Enbridge gas incentive grant in excess of forty thousand dollars.
The system that was design and installed by Climatech was built with life cycle and ongoing maintenance in mind. We developed a control scheme that incorporated the latest in energy conservation while maximizing the equipment. The system only uses the number of boilers it requires to deliver the heat needed by the building. This means that there are many times when a number of boilers are off. The control system monitors the boiler run time and schedules individual boilers so that each boiler has an equal amount of “run time” ensuring that all the boilers age equally.
The building received a much needed capital equipment upgrade. The maintenance staff received a system that controls itself, is easy to work with and easy to maintain. The ownership of the building receive a capital expenditure that paid for itself in 6 ½ year for equipment that has a 20 year life cycle.
The building is logistically challenging with little room for delivery and no staging area. The ground floor of the hotel is dedicated to the public. The boiler plant is located in the penthouse which requires new equipment to be brought up by elevator, then hoisted two floors to the boiler room level. The installation was relatively straight forward. The scope of work was to remove 10 atmospheric boilers and replace them with 8 high efficiency condensing boilers. I addition we upgraded the building pumps, expansion tanks, boiler control system and the natural gas piping and delivery.
Energy Conservation in a capital upgrade delivers a “win – win” . We provided a boiler plant that was able to deliver the heating required with fewer boilers than originally installed. In addition the new boilers were significantly more energy efficient. The end result was a natural gas savings that resulted in a 6 ½ year simple payback and an Enbridge gas incentive grant in excess of forty thousand dollars.
The system that was design and installed by Climatech was built with life cycle and ongoing maintenance in mind. We developed a control scheme that incorporated the latest in energy conservation while maximizing the equipment. The system only uses the number of boilers it requires to deliver the heat needed by the building. This means that there are many times when a number of boilers are off. The control system monitors the boiler run time and schedules individual boilers so that each boiler has an equal amount of “run time” ensuring that all the boilers age equally.
The building received a much needed capital equipment upgrade. The maintenance staff received a system that controls itself, is easy to work with and easy to maintain. The ownership of the building receive a capital expenditure that paid for itself in 6 ½ year for equipment that has a 20 year life cycle.
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