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New Trier High School in lombard, Illinois is using three 330-ton Mammoth Custom Penthouse units with evaporative condensing to create a more comfortable climate for students, faculty and staff. The $12 million renovation project included $1. Million in Mammoth equipment. The prefabricated central plant equipment room provided in the Custom Penthouse saved approximately 90 days.
New Trier High School in lombard, Illinois is using three 330-ton Mammoth Custom Penthouse units with evaporative condensing to create a more comfortable climate for students, faculty and staff. The $12 million renovation project included $1. Million in Mammoth equipment. The prefabricated central plant equipment room provided in the Custom Penthouse saved approximately 90 days.
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New Trier High School in lombard, Illinois is using three 330-ton Mammoth Custom Penthouse units with evaporative condensing to create a more comfortable climate for students, faculty and staff. The $12 million renovation project included $1. Million in Mammoth equipment. The prefabricated central plant equipment room provided in the Custom Penthouse saved approximately 90 days.
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C O M M E R C I A L E N V I R O N M E N T A L S Y S T E M S G R O U P I N C .
New Trier High School Creating Climates
for Learning Location: Winnetka, Illinois Sales Representative: Air Filter & Equipment Corporation; Chicago, Illinois Mechanical Contractor: Hill Mechanical Group; Chicago, Illinois COMMERCIAL Consulting Engineer: WMA Consulting Engineers, Ltd.; Chicago, Illinois ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS GROUP Architect: Cashman Stahler Architectural Group; Lombard, Illinois
Penthouse prepares New Trier High School for future studies
As the premier college preparatory public school in Illinois, Bringing the factory to the field New Trier High School demands perfection from its students, Although scheduled to be completed over a two-year period staff and heating, ventilating and air conditioning system. the $12 million renovation project, which included $1.7 Situated a block from Lake Michigan in one of the most million in Mammoth equipment, was governed by stringent prestigious north shore communities of Chicago, the school time constraints given the almost year-round occupancy of is using three 330-ton Mammoth Custom Penthouse units the school. With summer school classes playing an with evaporative condensing to create a more comfortable important role in New Trier’s curriculum, the aggressive climate for students, faculty and staff. project schedule was reduced to only 112 working days. Coupled with the fact that increasing enrollment is placing a premium on space availability, Neiweem and his staff steered away from the traditional field-built system toward the prefabricated mechanical central plant equipment room provided in Mammoth’s Custom Penthouse. Mammoth's expertise in the design and application of packaged equipment was instrumental in compressing the critical-path of the engineering and construction sche- dule. The Penthouse approach saved approximately 90 days. With a staff devoted to the design and production of penthouse equipment, Mammoth had a definite advantage over engineers who don’t work with this type of equipment on a daily basis. Also factoring into the decision to use the prefabricated equipment was Mammoth’s impressive job list with the Custom Penthouse, which includes a paramount project at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. For Neiweem and his staff, a visit to the mall and a tour of To combat the muggy summers and windy, dry winters on the shore of Mammoth’s production facility provided a Lake Michigan, New Trier High School chose the Mammoth Custom firsthand look at the Custom Penthouse, in Penthouse units to create a more comfortable climate for learning. terms of its performance and the quality of construction. “New Trier Maintenance Manager Gene “Public schools have typically taken a traditional approach Black and I studied other Chicago-area installations, the to HVAC installation in that they only study built-up chiller Mall of America and Mammoth's impressive facility and system solutions, but we believe the Mammoth equipment we decided Mammoth could deliver,” Neiweem said. “From has significant advantages,” said John Neiweem, director an engineering perspective, is was an ideal application for of physical plant and property services for the New Trier us. Educators are under intense pressure to predict how School District. “In terms of overall cost, quality control institutions are going to deliver instruction in the future, and maximizing available space within intense time particularly with the growing impact of technology, so the constraints, we really needed to do a turnkey engineering real key for the physical plant is flexibility. We decided that and construction job and it became clear that Mammoth Mammoth could provide us with optimal flexibility.” was the ideal solution.” For Gerry Gragg of Air Filter & Equipment, who lists New Trier as his prestige project in the Chicago area, the group’s visit to the mall was also crucial from a sales perspective. “The Mall of America is an impressive job for anyone considering the Project coordinators at New Trier High School chose Mammoth's prefabricated Custom purchase of this type of Penthouse for its ability to meet time constraints while accommodating existing duct work, equipment,” Gragg said. increasing usable space within the school and improving indoor air quality. “The older I get, the more I believe in the importance of customer visits. We don’t have showrooms the increasing popularity of interdisciplinary instruction and and retail stores where we can show people our products, cooperative classroom techniques is changing the way so we like to take the time to visit a job like the mall and let classes are taught in terms of room configuration, which our customers do a little tire kicking for themselves. It’s really makes VAV an excellent choice for the long-term expec- an essential part of a sale this complex and technical.” tations of the system. While observing the quiet operation of the penthouse equip- ment made quite an impact on project coordinators, there A total package were a number of other factors that appealed to their needs. In 1921, when architects designed New Trier High School, In addition to being centrally located, the rooftop system they had no idea that the school would be educating 3,000 was attractive because it increased usable space within the students in 1995 and an expected 4,200 by the year 2004. school and provided flexibility in terms of the ability to Their inability to predict the future was reflected in a set of reconfigure the internal footprint if necessary through the blueprints that left no allowance for an HVAC system in the use of variable air volume (VAV). According to Neiweem, four-story building.
Manufacturer's involvement, partnership with Johnson Controls ensu
From conception to start-up, the HVAC project at New The key word in Gragg’s account, is partnership. Mammoth Trier High School is a textbook example of a job well done. personnel took an active role in the design and planning stages to ensure proper integration and operation. Mammoth While each supplier took responsibility for its respective personnel and JCI engineers also devoted many hours to portion of the project, teamwork among all parties was working out the details of the controls, together. Johnson’s critical to the success of the project. A prime example, is Metasys NCU hardware system had been selected by New the partnership between Mammoth and Johnson Controls, Trier as the result of a performance contracting agreement, Inc. (JCI), which provided for high quality HVAC units and and it was determined early in the project that all controls controls, in addition to a flawless integration between the would be factory installed by Mammoth. two components. “Mammoth has a very talented man in Dave Nelson, who “The strength of our relationship with Johnson Controls is a behind-the-scenes electrical wizard,” Gragg said. “He was very important and everything worked beautifully,” was one of the representatives from Mammoth that worked Gragg said. “Mammoth received all the equipment, wired with JCI to iron out all the details and shortly after the meeting it in place, plugged in the microprocessor controls, started started, it became very apparent that Dave knew more than it up, and it all ran like it was designed to. There were no the rest of us. He told them how to best wire the units and I wire termination errors.” give him a lot of credit, along with the team on the floor Faced with the task of replacing a 60-year-old steam heating four light courts were penciled in to system while creating a more comfortable climate and provide natural light to classrooms improving indoor air quality, New Trier chose three packaged located on the interior of the building. units, each with four 75-ton screw compressors, direct In the corner of each court, a steel expansion (DX) cooling and an evaporative condenser. Each tower with galvanized exterior panels 330-ton unit employs two centrifugal plug fans to supply a services each floor of the school. total of 300,000 cfm of conditioned air to classrooms, Using architectural cladding designed laboratories, computer rooms and administrative offices by Cashman, the risers blend with within the school. their surroundings to preserve the natural architecture of the building. A healthier learning environment “We also had a 60-year-old steam system and filthy duct Prior to the installation of the Mammoth units, the school work, so what we really needed was a new artery,” Neiweem used more than 120 window air conditioners and 18 said. “We also didn’t want to give up any prime real estate, packaged units to service administrative offices and computer so the duct work that Mammoth provided was great. We labs, but no classrooms in the 722,000 square-foot facility. revitalized the steam mains to get up to penthouse units and To improve indoor air quality and meet federal regulations it was a great solution.” for proper ventilation, the new system was designed to measure outside air intake. Based on those measurements, variable speed fans increase or decrease ventilation as Quiet in the library, please required. As a final air quality measure, carbon dioxide With two units located directly over classrooms and one monitors evaluate return air from occupied spaces and above the library, transmission of noise from the central plant additional fresh air is introduced as required. equipment and fan-powered boxes was a major concern to project coordinators. To ensure a quiet environment, fan “Indoor air quality was a significant concern because federal powered box sizes were limited to 1,250 cfm and each regulations have gotten progressively stricter. In terms of air Mammoth unit was placed on a 5-inch thick slab of concrete quality, we were simply not code-compliant so we wanted and a structural steel platform that floats on 12 spring-isolated a system that could exceed existing standards and provide housings to meet a sound power rating of NC 30. future flexibility in meeting increased regulations,” Neiweem said. “Another major plus for us was the migration of our Passing with flying colors outside air intake from its environmentally undesirable With Phase I of the project completed and one unit already location in the subbasement up to the roof, which improved creating a more comfortable climate for learning, Neiweem air quality and allowed us to recapture 15,000 square feet is pleased with his decision to use Mammoth’s Custom of needed storage space.” Penthouse. The move of the outside air intake was part of an innovative “Mammoth has met every milestone of this project,” design by the Chicago-based Cashman Stahler Architectural Neiweem said. “We are pleased with Mammoth's rooftop Group, which utilized interior light courts to house supply equipment and we are hoping to use their equipment when and return duct work. When the high school was designed, we renovate our music building next summer.”
res total control, integration
and checkout. Anytime you have a job this complex, it’s In addition to the partnership between Mammoth and nice to meet face-to-face with the controls contractor and JCI, both Neiweem and Gragg credit the success of the manufacturer.” integration to the extra time and effort devoted during the planning and design stages, as well as the checkout The units have sophisticated direct digital controls (DDC) of the unit at Mammoth. that are elaborate even by DDC standards, which made the partnership and combined knowledge of Mammoth and JCI "The checkout of the unit at the plant was done beautifully even more critical. The package includes condenser control, and I can't say enough about our ability to place the unit carbon dioxide sensors, airflow monitors for outside air in a humid climate in the middle of the summer and fully intake, a smoke cycle and a biocide/inhibitor interface. commission the product in two working days,” Gragg said. Additionally, a fan disable switch is located at each service door to ensure safe maintenance conditions. Neiweem added," The Mammoth equipment installed at New Trier will positively impact the teaching and learning “Mammoth did an excellent job coordinating and integrating process well into the 21st century, and other schools can the controls with Johnson Controls and they were factory benefit by studying this unique project." installed without any problems,” Neiweem said. “They had a highly skilled team that helped keep everything on track and change orders never became an issue.” From a sales perspective, Gragg remains confident in his decision to steer Neiweem away from a field-built system and toward the penthouse solution. “I felt that Mammoth had a more mature, established product and I was comfortable with the personnel there,” Gragg said. “The fact that New Trier brought its team up to the factory also made a difference. As a group they determined that it would be the Custom Penthouse with evaporative condensing, Hitachi compressors and the Mammoth Vari-Cone. Once they understood the value associated with each of these options, it became difficult for our competitors to meet our features.”
New Trier Custom Penthouse Features:
• Each unit contains a custom-design mechanical equipment room (MER) with a separate heat exchanger, pumps and piping distribution system to serve the unit’s hot water coils. The MER’s vestibule containes an angled corner to increase space inside the unit. • To accommodate a helicopter lift, each unit was fabricated in seven sections with a maximum weight of 22,000 pounds per section to meet weight constraints. • Hitachi compressors allow for staging of loads, which is especially critical during summer school classes that are in session from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. throughout the summer. • The new system allows for future expansion, which according to Neiweem, may be necessary as year-round schooling is becoming more prevalent.
To improve indoor air quality, outside air intake was
moved from the subbasement up to the roof of the school. The galvanized steel risers used as duct work are housed in architectural cladding to preserve the original features of the school.
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