Fossil Ridge High School's acceptable architecture includes architecture orientation, bank and beam insulation, Ice Storage air conditioning, automated architecture arrangement controls and an able heating system. Fossil Ridge activity bills are about 33% beneath than those of a afresh built, analogously sized top academy in the district Furthermore, this architecture costs no added to apparatus than acceptable designs.
Ft. Collins, CO -- Sustainable design is accepting accustomed for extenuative an estimated $85,000 in electric and gas costs for the 2007/ 2008 academy year at Fossil Ridge High School (FRHS) in the Poudre School District in Fort Collins, Colorado. An basic allotment of the building's top achievement architecture is CALMAC's Ice Storage air conditioning system. Compared to an existing, analogously sized 1,800 apprentice academy in the aforementioned district, FRHS requires bisected of the electric demand.
CALMAC Ice Storage Tanks at Fossil Ridge High School in Ft. Collins, Colo. accord to activity amount accumulation at the school.
"Fossil Ridge activity bills are about 33% beneath than those of a afresh built, analogously sized top academy in the district," according to Stu Reeve, the district's Energy Manager. "Furthermore, this architecture costs no added to apparatus than acceptable designs." Whereas archetypal academy designs today use 3 watts / sq. ft.; FRHS uses alone 1.6 watts / sq. ft. Projected over the activity of the building, activity accumulation from the building's mechanical, plumbing, irrigation and lighting systems are estimated at added than $6 actor at accepted account rates. If all schools were advised in this fashion, it would chargeless up bound funds to lower acreage taxes or advance facilities, appoint added teachers, and accommodate acceptance with a bigger befalling for success.
Here are just a few of the activity extenuative appearance that were congenital into Fossil Ridge in adjustment to accommodated the standards set alternating in the "Sustainable Design Guidelines":
- Building acclimatization to crop best advantage of sunlight Day lighting throughout the ability Strategically accession exoteric concealment accessories to abbreviate the absolute solar calefaction accretion ~R20 cloistral walls and ~R-30 ceilings Tubular skylights Sensors that acclimatize artificial lighting levels based on the aggregate of aurora in classrooms Automated architecture arrangement controls for all lighting and HVAC accessories Ice Storage air conditioning arrangement cools the architecture during big-ticket on-peak electrical use by authoritative and autumn ice at night if the architecture has beneath electric loads, again application the ice during the afterward day Drought-tolerant built-in agriculture Efficient, "right-sized" heating system
Ice Storage was the air conditioning arrangement of best because of its adeptness to badly abate accessories sizes and affiliated load, thereby blurred operating costs throughout the activity of the building.
Most academy designs in the Poudre County School District alarm for one ton of cooling for every 1000 sq. ft. of air conditioned space, which is actual advancing by accepted practices. That agency a accepted architecture at FRHS would accept appropriate a 525 ton alarming and appropriately sized abutment equipment. Instead, this chip architecture calls for 1 ton of automated cooling for every 2000 sq. ft., apery a huge accumulation to the district. The 250 ton cooling amount is met with 8 IceBank® Energy Storage tanks from CALMAC and a 130-ton alarming from Trane.
Inexpensive caliginosity electricity is stored in the anatomy of ice central the Ice Storage tanks, which is again acclimated to air-conditioned the academy the afterward day and appropriately abbreviation appeal and big-ticket on aiguille electricity purchases. The Ice Storage arrangement aswell helps FRHS advance renewable activity from the Photovoltaic panels after penalty. When billow awning reduces the PV console output, Ice Storage can aces up the baggy to abbreviate electric appeal and on-peak purchases due to billow cover. Furthermore, Fossil Ridge H.S. purchases 100% of its electricity from wind turbines, and that electricity can aswell be stored.
Fossil Ridge High School (FRHS) of the Poudre School District in Fort Collins, CO, with about 262,700 sq. ft. of conditioned space, has been awarded the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-conditioning's ASHRAE http://www.ashrae.org/publications/page/540 Technology Award for New Institutional Buildings. It is aswell the aboriginal top academy in Colorado to accredit with the United States Green Buildings Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) http://leedcasestudies.usgbc.org/energy.cfm?ProjectID=672 to which Ice Storage helped in earning acceptance credits.
About CALMAC
CALMAC is broadly accustomed for announcement aiguille activity attention and activity amount savings. An ENERGY STAR® Partner and USGBC member, CALMAC is a arch architect of IceBank® Energy Storage air conditioning accessories with over 3,000 Ice Storage installations worldwide. IceBank® can abundance renewable activity like wind and solar thereby accretion activity values. CALMAC can be accomplished by writing, 3-00 Banta Place, Fair Lawn, NJ 07410, calling (201) 797-1511 or visiting their web website at www.Calmac.com.
Contact:
Jasmine Williams
CALMAC Manufacturing Corporation
201-797-1511
jwilliams @ calmac.com
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