Like thousands of districts around the country, Merrill Community Schools, a district that serves over 800 students in Saginaw County, MI, faced tight budgets, inefficient building systems, and rising energy costs. But while the district wanted to make infrastructure improvements and cut its utility bills, it didn’t want to place an additional burden on the community. So turning to taxpayers for assistance or redirecting money was out of the question.
The Northland Pines School District (NPSD) in Eagle River, WI is the proud owner of the first LEED® Certified School in the Badger State. The school district, located in the state’s North Woods region, turned to Hoffman, LLC (Appleton, WI) for its extensive experience in designing and constructing sustainable schools in cold climates. Hoffman provides fully integrated planning, architectural design, and construction management services using a D-B approach.
The newly developed Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Kansas City Campus sits on 27.5 acres of land just south of the landmark Union Station and west of the Liberty Memorial. It is home to nearly 3,000 full-time employees and up to 5,000 seasonal workers, who are enjoying advanced indoor environmental and comfort control systems among other amenities.
Officials at Sutter Davis Hospital sought to upgrade the facility’s existing BAS with the newest technology, but its existing network cabling was incompatible with the new BAS. A wireless network
Maintenance staff at the Shawnee Mission Medical Center in suburban Kansas City sought to lessen the burden and cost of cooling tower maintenance. After overcoming some hesitancy, they eventually turned
A distinctive “cooling deficiency correction program” at Tennessee Tech involved a sizeable investment, including a 1,500-ton chiller, three new 350-hp secondary pumps, and several building pumps. Tennessee Tech in Cookeville,
When shopping for a new supercomputer array, officials at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign positioned reliable cooling system scalability as the number one concern. The solution also incorporated
The addition of a gymnasium and auditorium and renovations to this Indiana middle school presented a local engineering team with the challenge of maintaining appropriate indoor air temperatures at
Designers of this 13,000-sq-ft swimming pool building were able use a heat recovery dehumidifier and other strategies to provide free pool water heating instead of heating makeup air at
In 2004, Proctor’s Theatre launched a $29 million expansion. The need to replace and improve its 50-year-old mechanical system prompted theater management to opt for a cogenerated district heating system,