ASHRAE Journal - March 2015 - 22

2015 ASHRAE TECHNOLOGY AWARD CASE STUDIES

SECOND PLACE
PERRY HAUSMAN, MEMBER ASHRAE, CORPORATION HALL
For this mixed use building, sustainable features
include a green roof, lowflow plumbing fixtures,
high-efficiency mechanical units, low consumption
LED lighting, lighttubes, solar thermal energy, geothermal silent heat through the radiant floor and a
non-idling demand response snowmelt system.
STANLEY KATZ, ASSOCIATE MEMBER ASHRAE, COMPLEX SOUTHWEST ONE
The addition of a new radiology clinic at a residential
complex challenged the design team to reduce the
impact of the clinic on the residential complex during and post construction. The design team used heat
recovery and a new chiller without a cooling tower.
ERIC WILLIAM SHAW, MEMBER ASHRAE, UPPER THAMES RIVER CONSERVATION
AUTHORITY
The design of this administrative building combines
innovative technologies and good practice, achieving a 71% reduction in energy use over the regulated requirements for energy efficient buildings
(MNECB). Compared to ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.12007, the estimated energy savings was 56%.

JACQUES LAGACÉ, ING, MEMBER ASHRAE, COMMISSION DE LA CONSTRUCTION
DU QUEBEC
This office building design began with a thorough
analysis of the data center to capitalize on its operation and needs so as to effectively adapt the building
services to them. The design reclaimed energy produced by the data center and used it efficiently.

Complex
Southwest
One

DONALD J. MCLAUCHLAN, P.E., MEMBER ASHRAE, SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY 29 NORTH WACKER RENOVATION PROJECT
An ASHRAE Level II audit identified 10 energy conservation measures for this existing building such as
a steam-to-water conversion, a chilled water plant
overhaul, redesign of the perimeter HVAC system to
incorporate active chilled beams, a new interior VAV
system and refurbishment of AHUs.
JEAN-PHILIPPE MORIN, ASSOCIATE MEMBER ASHRAE, CSSS POINTE-DE-L'ILE
An ASHRAE Level III audit identified energy-efficiency measures for this existing building such as airto-air heat-recovery systems; geothermal heating system; condensing boilers retrofit; kitchen hood system
variable flow conversion; and condensing hot-water
heaters retrofit.
BRETT MASON GRIFFIN, MEMBER ASHRAE, DIGITAL REALTY DATA CAMPUS
The heart of the mechanical system for this data campus is the chiller plant. Due to aggressive speed to
market and flexibility requirements, the chiller plant
was designed to be modular and scalable to allow for
the plant to be stick built onsite or pre-built offsite.

Corporation Hall

HONORABLE MENTION
AARON ROBERT SMITH, P.ENG., MEMBER ASHRAE, 100 VENTURE RUN
100 Venture Run is a three-story office building in
Nova Scotia that achieved LEED Canada Gold Core
and Shell 2009; the first LEED Gold Core and Shell
project in the province. This building is to be used as
a template for future buildings at the site so building
performance was analyzed early in the design process
and a rigorous commissioning and measurement and
verification process took place.

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CHARLES E. GULLEDGE, III, MEMBER ASHRAE, CATERPILLAR ASSEMBLY PLANT
The Caterpillar Assembly Plant is a new, state-of-theart, heavy manufacturing facility in Georgia. The project was completed via a design-build delivery model
on a greenfield site.
TERRY G. AUTRY, P.E., MEMBER ASHRAE, NCAR-WYOMING SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER
To achieve high levels of cooling system efficiency,
RMH engineers harnessed the cool, dry climate of
Cheyenne by using evaporative cooling towers to efficiently deliver 65ºF chilled water directly to NCAR's
liquid-cooled supercomputers for 98.6% of the year.
That same 65ºF chilled water is moved into fan wall
cooling coils for the air-cooled computers.

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