East Maine School District 63 gets a lesson in energy savings
East Maine Consolidated School District is a public school district located in Cook County, IL, an affluent metropolitan area just 20 miles northwest of Chicago. The school district encompasses portions of five different communities - unincorporated Des Plaines, Niles, Glenview, Park Ridge, and Morton Grove. This K-8 district consists of six elementary schools (K-6), one junior high school (7-8) and the district head office with a student enrollment of approximately 3,600 students and growing.
Together, CEC and the energy management solutions provider created a new partnership to transition District 63 into this complete retrofit program for the school system with energy management measures that included Internet-based monitoring, a new BAS, and overall HVAC improvements. Other measures, such as new building envelope systems (windows, doors, etc.), were also incorporated into the retrofit. The primary goal was to update five of the buildings to include A/C systems, replace chillers, boilers, and other HVAC components, and to install a new Internet-enabled controls system that would allow the school to easily manage each of the buildings from one central location as well as from each specific building.