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Ice Plants Keep Merrill Lynch Cool
Iconics software provides the building controls for the Merrill Lynch complex in Hopewell, NJ. The complex has four of its own boiler plants, four chiller plants, and four ice plants that make ice at night when electricity is cheap. The ice is melted to cool down the buildings during the day.
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Iconics controls Kista Science Tower in Sweden
The Kista Science Tower complex is comprised of six buildings, with the tallest spanning 32 stories. GENESIS32 is used to monitor and control the elevators, lighting, HVAC and the window blinds.
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Legacy Building Automation Integration
By Advantech
The S4 Group, a building automation software company, used a BACnet-N2 Router to bring information from electric power monitoring meters, building and network infrastructure equipment, and other devices into legacy Johnson Controls Metasys building automation systems.
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ABB cuts maintenance costs at PolymerLatex
Control Engineering Europe, September 2008
PolymerLatex cut maintenance costs by 10 per cent two years after embarking on a five-year performance based contract with ABB’s Full Service team. ABB is responsible for all maintenance-related activities and equipment at the plant.
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Automated Storage and Retrieval System cuts energy in cold storage warehouses
- 09/08/08
By Jim McMahon
J.T.M. Food Group’s switch from manual cold storage warehousing to an automated storage and retrieval system cut energy usage by 66 percent.
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Leaky Boiler Leads to Safer Practices
IEN, July 2008
After a recent carbon monoxide leak at an Erlanger, KY office complex, building management did not have to look far to find a gas detection solution. To provide early warning of any future leaks, management purchased Eikon portable personal detectors and Xgard fixed gas detectors from one of the building’s tenants, gas detection specialist Crowcon.
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Mitsubishi helps automate fashion house Per Una
Process and Control Today, July 2008
Per Una is reducing the energy consumption of its building management systems at all its UK sites. Central to the system is a Mitsubishi Qn PAC acting as a master controller not only for the main building but also for other design studios in London and Leicester, plus at least two more buildings.
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CLPA controls eco building
Control Engineering Europe, May 2008
In Ely, UK, GB Innomech’s building control is based on a PLC, HMI and distributed networked local controls. CC-Link was chosen as the operating protocol as it is an open system which can communicate with a wide variety of field hardware.
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Safety overhaul at Süd-Chemie
Control Engineering Europe, April 2008
Süd-Chemie installed a safety instrumented system (SIS) at its Bruckmühl, Germany plant. The system, certified by TÜV to safety integrity level (SIL) 2, is hoped to ensure the functional safety of the plant.
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Paddington calls in Micronics
Control Engineering Europe, April 2008
Network Rail called in a flowmeter expert to help it get to the bottom of rising water bills at Paddington Station. Micronics was faced with the daunting task of surveying an old and complex system that has changed considerably due to development activity. Six Portaflo 300 instruments were used to gather 24 hour consumption/load profiles for selected hot and cold water services.
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High on Efficiency, Low on Water Usage
Buildings, April 2008
Low-consumption flush valves are an easy-to-use, cost-effective technology that will significantly lower water usage.
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Making Boiler Runtime More Efficient
Buildings, April 2008
By Dan Margulies, U.S. Energy Group.
With a goal of running your buildings at peak operating efficiency, one of the most effective way to do this is by controlling boiler runtime
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Physics Of Structural Automation
Industrial Automation Asia
The Einstein III building in Haidhausen, Germany, has a complete building automation solution that combines CitectFacilities with the European Installation Bus (EIB) and BACnet. The interlacing of these open standards resulted in the networking of the entire building.
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Finns drive for smart buildings
Control Engineering Europe
January 2008
A local government building in the Finnish city of Tampere has networked variable speed fan drives into its heating and ventilating system during a major refit of the 40-year-old building.
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Building control system uses LonWorks
- 02/12/08
By Lonmark International
Floor controls are linked via a LonWorks network, using Siemens LMEC gateways onto a BACnet system which handles the interaction with the central AHU, boilers and chillers.
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Roppongi Hills Mori Tower
Japan's largest redevelopment project improves tenant service, reduces operation costs and optimizes energy utilization as a result of using Nexa from Citect. This is the worlds largest OPC project and includes over 300 OPC servers, 500,000 tags, and 750 graphics pages, with response times of <1 second.
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The Largest Enterprise Energy Management Deployment in North America
AutomatedBuildings.com, May 2007
By Brooke Richards, Richards-Zeta Building Intelligence
With over 245 million square feet of leasable property, Simon Property Group was seeking a solution which would allow them to leverage the most innovative and advanced technology in Building Automation fully integrated with Automated Meter Reading.
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5 Success Stories in Energy Management
Buildings, February 2007
By Jana J. Madsen
Award-winning organizations show you how to change behavior, increase equipment life, and spend less, all while managing energy like a pro.
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AERCO Boilers Help California School District Cut Fuel Costs in Half
Buildings, April 2007
Shasta Union High School District is reaping tangible benefits, including fuel savings of more than 50%, achieved in part by the installation of nine AERCO boilers in five school buildings
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Johnson County (Kansas) goes green to win LEED gold
Buildings, April 2007
The Sunset Drive Building was designed to save about 40 percent in energy costs compared to the baseline defined in ASHRAE 90.1. In 2006, the building received Gold certification using the LEED-New Construction (NC) Version 2.1 program.
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Rural Texas School District Upgrades Facilities
Consulting & Specifying Engineer, April 2007
The Nueces Canyon Consolidated Independent School District in Barksdale, Texas, completed more than $1 million in facility upgrades to improve building operations and comfort, while enabling the district to better control utility costs.
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Metering Accuracy is Critical to the Success of Toronto’s Innovative Deep Lake Water Cooling
Consulting & Specifying Engineer, April 2007
The Deep Lake Water Cooling (DLWC) system in Toronto is the world’s largest. For metering, DLWC uses IFS 4000 KC Enviromag electromagnetic flowmeters, ranging in size from 3 to 20 in. dia, from KROHNE.
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Electrical Power Expansion
Emerson Process Management dispatched an Electrical Power Engineer to the facility to review the existing single line drawings and to bring them up-to-date. This confirmed the client's concern that additional power would be required to support the new production lines. During the plant visit the engineer suggested a conceptual design that would resolve the problem. The design incorporated a new 480V substation. It also included a new, double - ended switchgear lines - up in an outdoor powerhouse, to be served by two, 2500 KVA transformers supplied by the local utility company.
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National Power's Advanced Plant Management System Integrates Commercial and Process Control Interests
When the United Kingdom privatized its power industry in 1990, national power PLC became one of several energy suppliers to its main customer, the National Grid Co. In the new competitive marketplace, the company saw the need to change how it viewed its extensive power plant operations.
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Contemporary Controls and Automated Logic Make the Pieces Fit Together
Commissioning a building automation system (BAS) is not necessarily a simple project, but it's made easier with an attached laptop doing the work.
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Climate Control Keeps them Hopping
Minnesota native Gordon “Gordy” Vadis has a passion for bugs. His interest dates from his youth when his father taught him the family minnow business. Knowing how to trap, maintain and sell a wide variety of live goods became as natural to Gordy as video games are to kids today. By combining his passion for success with a retailer's eye, Gordy conceived the next great innovation for insect eating pets: pre-packaged live crickets. With this idea, Bugco was born.
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Chicago Structure Unveils New BAS Using Contemporary Controls’ Skorpion Switches
Due to overall lifetime costs of one of Chicago’s downtown structures, the customer implemented a plan to upgrade the 500,000 sq ft building three years ago. The redesign process was in an effort to save energy, facilities maintenance, and personnel costs. The return-on-investment was achieved by installing a dedicated building automation network using Contemporary Controls’ industrial-grade Ethernet Skorpion switches, eliminating the hard to maintain outdated existing DDC system. Contemporary Controls is an industrial networking manufacturer located in Downers Grove, IL, specializing in Ethernet switches marketed under the trade name CTRLink®.
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Process plant modernisation brings significant savings
Process and Control Today, March 2007
By John Houston, Editor
Achieving energy savings of at least 50% along with less downtime and cheaper maintenance were the important benefits achieved following a process water plant modernisation and pump replacement project, completed for Robert McBride Ltd, a leading manufacturer of personal care products
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Variable-speed drives keep Rain Forest Temperate
Behind the scenes, a lot of mechanical engineering goes into creating and maintaining a tropical rainforest near Lake Erie, just 40 miles from the Canadian border. It is a feat accomplished by Cleveland (Ohio) Metroparks, a recreational authority that provides an “emerald necklace” of woodlands, golf courses, hiking trails and other attractions surrounding this Midwestern city -- known as much for its sports teams as its world-class orchestra and Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame. Without state-of-the-art HVAC technology, it is doubtful this unique tropical habitat -- located within the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo complex -- could exist; and it continues to benefit from equipment improvements, such as advanced motor and drive design.
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