Your Building is Not Too Old, For New Technology
Owners of older apartment buildings and complexes sing a common lament:
“there’s only so much I can do in my old building, I can’t afford to rip the
walls down to install new heating or distribution components, no matter how
efficient they make things.”
The thing is, that’s yesterday’s news.
Modern heating controls can certainly run your high efficiency
replacement boilers better, and more efficiently. But in 2019 the controls,
room sensors, and valves can all be deployed and controlled wirelessly, putting
a high efficiency, lower energy consuming building into your future too.
Consider the following example of how a Heat-Timer® Platinum series
control system, in the hands of a skilled commercial HVAC
crew, can make your old building a deeper shade of green.
Problem Statement
Common to older apartment buildings like the Executive house in Albany
NY, are problems associated with manual control of one or more boilers and even
many different mechanical rooms. Hot spots, windows open all winter, chemical
treatments, etc… substantial, but common problems in a building without proper
boiler management.
A Heat-Timer® Solution to Heating Problems in Old Buildings
Our Commercial HVAC Contractor had long experience with the installation
of our controls in old buildings. He immediately knew that an updated Multi-Mod
Platinum
Series control system, replacement of aged out steam valves, and the
incorporation of outdoor reset
would be necessary to achieve the maximum fuel savings that would make the
property manager a hero.
With these controls the solution at Executive house got better quickly.
The Multi-MOD provided much needed boiler control by modulating multiple
boilers using PID-type logic. This energy efficient control strategy
incorporates rate of change into modulating decisions. The PID logic
analyzes how quickly the current boiler load is affecting the system and the
control reacts accordingly. As soon as the control recognizes that the system
temperature is approaching set point, it begins to back off the boiler,
gradually coasting toward set point. This minimizes energy usage while avoiding
overshoots and short-cycling issues.
While life got quickly better for 90% of the tenants at Executive House,
there were still hot and cold spots in the building. But because the system
selected used Heat Timer’s ICMS (Internet Communications Management System) the
team was able to dynamically move space sensors around the building to diagnose
that a bizarre steam distribution system had been feeding certain
apartments from two entirely different sources. By monitoring and tweaking the
many parameters designed into the Heat-Timer control, the team was able to beat
the odd distribution system into submission. With the use of SRC and the fine
tuning capabilities exposed by the ICMS, 100% of tenants are comfortable at all
times of the day or night. Not to mention the reduction in energy expenses that
paid for the entire upgrade in short order.
Conclusion
Now, building managers can receive alerts, tweak efficiency, and
diagnose issues from couch, with one hand on the cell phone, and the other deep
into a bag of potato chips. The heat timer ICMS and wireless space sensors make
it all possible, even for your old building. For more information, Contact
the team at Heat-Timer® today.
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