Automation & Controls - Case Studies
Kirriemuir-based AAD Transport has taken delivery of four new trailers mounted with Carrier Transicold Vector HE 19 MT (multi-temperature) refrigeration units. Impressed by its quiet operation and excellent sustainability credentials, this is the second time the company has specified Carrier Transicold’s ultra-efficient trailer system. Carrier Transicold is a part of the Carrier Global Corporation, the renowned global provider of healthy, safe, sustainable and intelligent building and col...
Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) is a globally renowned technology and science university renowned for their deeply-held commitment to improving the human condition. The faculty and students at GT are solving some of the world’s most pressing challenges, such as clean and sustainable energy, disease diagnosis and treatment, and national defense and security, among others. GREEN BUZZ and LEED certification The campus of Georgia Institute of Technology participates in the GREEN BUZZ a...
Pure Air Control Services, an industry pioneer in mechanical and environmental cleaning technologies, tackled head-on, Florida State’s (FSU’s) dirty coils to provide the students and teachers a healthier learning environment. Cleaning the coil with the environmentally friendly, and proven PURE-Steam method from the foam/rinse method that only superficially cleaned the surface of the coil and pushed small debris along with residue, further into the coil causing decreased airflow, a m...
The University of South Florida (USF) founded in 1956, covers over 1900 acres, 250 buildings, 10 million square feet, 34 residence halls occupy over 5,000 on-campus beds, with an enrollment of over 48,000 students, making USF the 4th largest university in Florida. USF is classified by the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching in the top tier of research universities and is among three other universities in Florida to hold this highest level of classification. The campus of USF partici...
Aggreko is proud to be partnering with PIF Saudi International to provide more solar power than ever before at the Royal Greens Golf & Country Club, Jeddah. Utilizing sustainable options like solar energy and biofuel in three areas for the event, they are helping this flagship golfing event significantly save on CO2 emissions. Sustainable energy solution Aggreko’s modular solution is designed for flexibility, scalability, and rapid deployment Aggreko’s sustainable energy solu...
The Harvard Medical School community, located in the historic Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, is dedicated to excellence and leadership in medicine, education, research, and clinical care. Since the School was established in 1782, faculty members have improved human health by innovating in their roles as physicians, mentors, and scholars. Harvard Longwood is a large campus that encompasses over 4 million square feet of building environments covering approximately 14 buildings. Benefits of...
The City of Oviedo, located within Seminole County, Florida, has been a longtime customer of over 20 years with Pure Air Control Services. Throughout this relationship, the city has relied on Pure Air Controls for IAQ testing, HVAC system cleaning, and building disinfection. The successful outcomes of these past projects have made Pure Air Control Services a trusted vendor for the City of Oviedo. Concerns The COVID-19 Pandemic has affected many governments and commercial facilities with new gu...
A pioneering decarbonization project by a multi-academy school trust is using high-performance CIAT heat pumps, in order to help reduce carbon emissions by more than 9,000 tons, over the lifetime of the scheme, saving £84,000 a year in energy costs. CIAT is part of Carrier Global Corporation, the renowned global provider of innovative healthy, safe, sustainable, intelligent building and cold-chain solutions. Yorkshire-based Abbey Multi-Academy Trust (Abbey MAT) is installing 38 AquaCIAT T...
West Midlands-based Accessible Hire & Refrigeration has delivered and installed its first two bespoke built, portable cold stores, each mounted with versatile and electric Carrier Transicold Vector® 1550 City units, to a food preparation facility in the southern UK. Carrier Transicold is a part of Carrier Global Corporation, the global provider of healthy, safe, sustainable, and intelligent building and cold chain solutions. Electric refrigeration units The Carrier Transicold Vector 1...
Carrier Commercial Refrigeration recently equipped a COVID-19 vaccine storage warehouse in Spain with its PowerCO2OL refrigeration system that utilizes the natural refrigerant carbon dioxide (CO2). This is the first time the sustainable, low global warming potential (GWP) refrigerant is being used to preserve and protect the efficacy of critical vaccines in Spain. To further support a safe and effective cold chain, Carrier’s flagship high-capacity refrigeration racks were fitted into an e...
A brand new 4-star hotel in central Glasgow, Scotland, is benefitting from a comprehensive Lochinvar heating and hot water package of heat pump, boilers, storage vessel, and water heaters. The Maldron Hotel The Maldron Hotel in Renfrew Street is just a short walk from both of Glasgow’s major rail stations – Central and Queen Street and a 15-minute drive from Glasgow International Airport. It is just minutes away from the city’s famous Sauchiehall Street shopping area and next...
Students and staff in the San Felipe Del Rio Consolidated Independent School District (SFDRCISD) are breathing easier with new district-wide indoor environmental quality enhancements. The school district teamed up with Trane® – by Trane Technologies., a global climate innovator – and Synexis® to improve the quality of indoor environment across the district’s five campuses in Texas. The district installed portable Synexis BioDefense Systems in every classroom in the dis...
CIAT UK is rolling out its automated indoor air quality (IAQ) system Epure® Dynamics for use in hospitality venues, offering hotels, restaurants and pubs enhanced levels of protection as they welcome back customers. The Epure Dynamic IAQ control system is available on CIAT fan coil units and ducted units and is part of #CIAT4life, a campaign to increase awareness of CIAT’s range of advanced IAQ solutions and services. CIAT is part of Carrier Global Corporation, the global provid...
Aggreko is proud to announce that they have completed commissioning of the largest flare gas to power project in the Middle East to date, with 165 MW capacity. The plant is situated nearby the Saqala Field, Garmain block, in South East Kurdistan. The 165 MW modular power plant has run at full capacity for 72 hours in the project’s final site acceptance test (SAT), marking successful on-time, on-budget delivery. Flare gas to power project The plant is run on approximately 40 million squa...
Preston-based James Hall & Co. has taken delivery of three new rigid trucks, each specified with the company’s first Carrier Transicold Syberia MT (multi-temperature) engineless units – a move designed to improve the sustainability of the commercial vehicles working across its wholesale contract with international food retail chain, SPAR. Aligned with Carrier’s 2030 ESG goals to reduce customers’ carbon footprint by more than 1 gigaton, these engineless units will re...
Draeger’s Market is an upscale grocery chain with four successful stores located in the San Francisco Bay area, in California, USA. The Draeger’s legacy spans 95 years of serving families and culinary professionals in this area, specializing in gourmet items, produce, meat, wine, liquor, prepared bakery and deli foods, flowers and housewares. Draeger’s mission is to be the best in food, wine, and service. Everything from the design of the marketplace to the equipment inside su...
As the omicron variant is surging across the United States, Cassia Regional Hospital is shining a light on COVID-19 prevention. Intermountain Cassia Regional Hospital is using a variety of cutting-edge technology in the battle against COVID-19. Trying to disinfect their facility and keep people safe is a top priority for the hospital. Their newest weapon in the battle is a device that uses Ultraviolet (UV)-C light to destroy pesky microorganisms. 360-degree ultraviolet light “This...
Vons-Safeway-Albertsons has over 2,200 stores in the U.S.A., across 33 US states. It is the largest supermarket chain in California, and is among the largest grocers in the world. They have quietly built one of the most impressive environmental records of any retailer in the United States of America. Vons-Safeway-Albertsons has already replaced a significant amount of its shaded pole fan motors with electronically commutated motors. Vons-Safeway-Albertsons evaluated QM Power’s Q-Sync®...
Since being acquired by Daikin Group in 2017, and following the integration of Daikin’s UK commercial refrigeration offering into its portfolio, Hubbard Products Ltd. (Hubbard) has been at the forefront in the commercial refrigeration market in the United Kingdom and in Northern Europe. Daikin’s new factory for Hubbard Daikin’s new, £3.3 million, 7,500 sq. meters factory will give Hubbard Products Ltd. almost 60 per cent more production space, a significant increase in...
The building was printed by Peri GmbH. A gantry printer was used: the print head moves along three axes on a permanently installed metal frame. The printer was operated by only two people, the print head and the print results were monitored by camera. For one square meter of a wall, the printer needed about 5 minutes. The construction of the house consists of three-shell walls, which were filled with insulating mass. During the printing process, the printer already took into account the lines a...
The historic mansions of Newport, RI are known for their elegance and remind their visitors of a bygone era of social and financial preeminence during the turn of the twentieth century in America. Cornelius Vanderbilt II, grandson of railroad industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) had the 70 room Italianrenaissance inspired mansion built on the site of a wood-framed house that was destroyed by fire in 1892. A year later, Architect Richard Morris Hunt, deployed an international team of c...
AET Flexible Space has just completed a full upgrade of the underfloor air conditioning system on the first floor of 16-18 Kirby Street, occupied by creative agency 7Fold. Refurbishments The 26,000 sq. ft., 1960’s post-war building was fully refurbished in 2006, enlarged and remodeled by Architect, Buckley Gray Yeoman, with underfloor air conditioning and raised access flooring installed throughout the seven floors. The existing system at Kirby Street is a CAM-C system with underfloor su...
Radisson RED London Heathrow and Radisson Hotel & Conference Centre London Heathrow, the largest hotel at the airport, have been equipped with the latest high-performance CIAT and Toshiba HVAC technology as part of a major refurbishment. The solution was provided by Toshiba Carrier UK Ltd (TCUK). CIAT and TCUK are part of Carrier Global Corporation, the provider of healthy, safe, sustainable and intelligent building and cold chain solutions. Air handling unit The recently rebranded four-s...
As part of the Evotech Technical Services Group, a national HVAC engineering company founded in 2003, Evotech Air Quality (Evotech) is a growing team of engineers, technicians and data scientists passionate about the air we breathe. Evotech helps UK businesses and organizations create safe working environments by transforming indoor air quality. They began offering the Airthings for Business solution in June 2020 for accurate, accessible air quality data. In this case study, Evotech shall explo...
Florida Gators Sports Properties and Air Pros USA, a residential and commercial air conditioning service company and the official Air Conditioning partner for Gators football, demonstrated gratitude for Veterans at the Florida Gators ‘saluting those who serve’ football game which took place on Saturday, November 13th. As part of the saluting those who serve game at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, Air Pros CEO Anthony Perera was recognized on the field and surprised the five local Veterans...
Carrier Global Corporation, a global provider of healthy, safe, sustainable, and intelligent building and cold chain solutions is delivering a full suite of innovative building technologies at Emory Healthcare’s new cutting-edge Musculoskeletal Institute (MSKI) in Atlanta, Georgia. Advanced solutions Carrier and Emory are collaborating to implement advanced solutions from Carrier’s Healthy Buildings Program – including HVAC, building automation, fire detection, access, and vi...
It looks like something out of a science fiction movie, a 6-foot tall lightsaber on wheels that emits a deadly glow to invisible enemies. But it’s not fighting the Galactic Empire. The UVDI-360 is a health care lifesaver, using ultraviolet radiation to destroy more than 30 high-risk microorganisms, including the coronavirus. The Lufkin State Supported Living Center Environmental Services staff have used this $55,000 deep cleaning machine at the facility since 2014. Due to a large donation...
A historic Art Deco icon meets cutting-edge luxury at The Sinclair, a Marriott Autograph Collection hotel. Built during the early 20th Century oil boom of Texas, the Sinclair Building has stood as one of the most recognizable landmarks of downtown Fort Worth, since 1929. The Sinclair, a historic hotel Designed to reflect the Gilded Age Art Deco style of the roaring 1920s, the Sinclair Building served the surrounding business community and employed thousands of Texans over the decades before un...
The owner of a 107-year old home sought an advanced hydronic heating solution for a major basement finishing project and to alleviate his existing heating woes on the first and second floors of the residence. The installation of an innovative and highly efficient boiler from Weil-McLain helped make the basement remodel a success and the family's home comfortably warm throughout. Hydronic heating solution Michael Bartholomay-Berreth, owner of the 2,700 square-foot, two-story Craftsman residenc...
Florida Gators Sports Properties and Air Pros USA, a residential and commercial air conditioning services company and the official Air Conditioning partner for Gators football, came together for the annual ‘Saluting Those Who Serve’ initiative to recognize a local Veteran. Working with the Alachua County Veteran Services Division, Air Pros USA and the Florida Gators awarded 88-year-old Eddie Thomas, a decorated Korean War Veteran, with a brand-new air conditioning unit and installat...
