Completed Projects
City of Lakeland – An Energy Savings and Sustainability Services Project
The Customer
The City of Lakeland is home to approximately 100,000 residents. The municipality operates and maintains approximately 2.7 million square feet of building space in 186 facilities. Included are a city owned electric utility and several large municipal buildings located in the downtown area.
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Collier County Government
The equipment was installed in the spring of 2003, and immediately proved itself as a viable solution. According to Jokela, the number of comfort-complaint calls plummeted, and his almost-daily trips to the building to respond to comfort problems were ended.
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Cox Target Media Inc.
Cox Target Media’s (CTM) Valpak Division is preparing to occupy their new manufacturing center located just to the West of I-275 in St. Petersburg between Roosevelt Boulevard and Gandy Boulevard. CTM’s parent company, Cox Enterprises, is headquartered in Atlanta and is a Trane National Account. Valpak produces the familiar blue savings envelope that we all receive regularly in the mail.
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The Dalí Museum
The Dalí Museum opened to considerable art and
architectural acclaim on January 11, 2011 (1/11/11). The
uniquely designed 66,500 square-foot museum replaces
an earlier facility which opened in St. Petersburg in 1982 and
houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of the
work of the Spanish artist Salvador Dalí.
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Encore...
A Tampa Housing Authority/Bank of America Partnership
The long awaited rebuilding of downtown Tampa is well underway. Bordering downtown, Ybor City, The Channel District and Tampa Heights and just north of the intersection of Nebraska and Zack, one can see the reality of a new sector of our city…..It's called Encore.
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Lakeland Regional Medical Center
Lakeland Regional Medical Center is located in fast growing Polk County. The facility has served the residents of Lakeland and surrounding
areas for the past 80 years and now consists of 851 beds, 835,000 square feet and occupies over 40 acres of land in Lakeland. Additionally, LRMC opened their first Cancer Care Facility last year at a remote site in Lakeland with plans for more offsite facilities in the future. Lakeland Regional Cancer Center is a 33,300 square foot facility housing radiation therapy, chemotherapy services, laboratory, physician offices, exam rooms, as well as areas dedicated to complementary therapies, education, a resource library, and other support services. LRMC has been an excellent Trane customer for over 50 years and the growth of the two organizations often seems synergistic. It’s as if LRMC’s needs matched Trane’s capabilities... or is it because of LRMC’s needs that Trane has responded and grown the required capabilities.
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Hernando County School District
Hernando County Schools, located in West Central Florida, is comprised of seventeen schools serving a population of over 130,000 county residents.
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Hillsborough Community College - Dale Mabry
Located in Tampa, Florida, across from Raymond
James Stadium, the Dale Mabry plant provides
chilled water for over 800,000 sq ft of Hillsborough
Community College’s campus. The plant has been
designed and built to be expanded at a future date for
a total tonnage of 4000 tons.
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Hillsborough County Government
We’re making a mess tearing up the streets in downtown Tampa... and we apologize. This construction work is part of a large Performance Contract entered into by Trane and Hillsborough County Government. Stephen Koontz, TBT Solutions Sales Engineer and Steve Van Skiver, TBT Solutions Project Manager along with Robert Garcia, TBT’s Vice President of Business Development are responsible for the complete scope of this project.
Tampa Bay Trane is teamed with Clark Construction, Poole & Kent, and TLC Consulting Engineers to expand Hillsborough County Government’s Chiller Plant and its under ground piping distribution system. A new fifteen hundred (1,500) ton Trane Centravac is being added to the Chiller plant along with 84 Calmac ice storage tanks. The project not only expands the capacity of the Chiller Plant but also insures that the Plant will operate at far lower costs because much of the load will be shifted to making ice at night when electric rates are lower.
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It’s 93º F outside, but
there’s ICE everywhere!
It’s true, more than ever this summer, knowledgeable, first cost
conscious building owners who also have a focus on controlling
energy costs are turning to ice storage as a key element of their
long term cooling strategy.
Trane customers from Manatee
County South to the Everglades
have long had the benefit of the
attractive cash rebates offered by local
electric utility companies which have been
used to improve the first cost and the life
cycle costs of Full Storage ice systems.
With Full Storage the chiller runs only at
night to freeze the tanks solid using a brine
solution. Then during the peak cooling
hours the chiller does not run at all and
the entire building cooling load is carried
by running only the chilled water pumps
which create the cooling effect by melting
the ice.
Now, even building owners in areas where
local utilities do not offer cash assistance
are finding that ice storage makes solid
financial sense. In these areas, new higher
demand rates have made ice storage
far more attractive. In particular, Partial
Thermal Storage can make solid financial
sense when demand rates climb because
ice storage systems significantly reduce
peak energy usage.
Just how can Partial Ice Storage Strategies
compete with traditional HVAC systems?
With Partial Ice Storage Strategies, during
times of peak cooling load both the chiller
and the ice operate together to
cool the building. The results
are that this arrangement
allows the design engineer to:
• Reduce the size of the chillers
and the chilled water piping
• Reduce the size of the buildings
electrical system, switchgear
and wiring sizes
• By using lower temperature
air delivery systems, reduce
the size of the air handlers and
the duct work.
With all of the savings noted above it’s
no wonder partial ice storage jobs can
be installed at a completive price versus
a conventional systems. The other good
news is that these ice storage concepts
can work for both new construction as well
as existing buildings. Need more capacity
with your current cooling system? Adding
ice storage might allow you to substantially
increase your system’s capacity without
buying any additional new chiller capacity.
COOL!
Where can I see one of these systems and
discuss the facts with experienced owners?
Well in fact there are ice jobs all over
the West Coast of Florida. Hillsborough
County Schools, Sarasota County Schools,
Shell Point Village in Ft. Myers, Hernando
County Schools are just a few of the many
owners employing ice. Yes, there are
some very big jobs like the 82 tank job
shown above right in downtown Tampa, or
the 140 tank job in Lee County. But there
are also numerous 2-6 tank projects out
there that meet all the tests of success.
Looking for new ideas to reduce your first
cost and insure you have a solid foundation
for long term low operating costs? Give
your Trane sales representative a call for
more ice cold facts.
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MacDill Air Force Base
The Defense Department recently awarded
contracts to Clark Construction to build a
$110 million intelligence center at MacDill
Air Force Base to meet the growing demand for
information in the global war on terror.
Construction on the Joint Intelligence Center for
Central Command, which runs military operations
in Iraq and Afghanistan, is scheduled to begin in
July. Clark has awarded the contract to install the
mechanical systems to The Poole and Kent
Company.
Trane Centravac Chillers, Trane Modular Climate
Changer air handlers, Trane Varitrac variable air
volume (VAV) boxes and Trane Fan Coil Units were
selected for this important project. Trane Tracer
Summit Controls will link all of the major pieces of
equipment together and maintain comfort
conditions throughout the facility which must
remain operational 24/7/365.
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Naples Daily News
Like many industries, the newspaper business faces tough competition on many fronts. The print media world is confronting a global move to electronic media with news being delivered instantaneously via the internet to one’s computer or cell phone in addition to increased challenges from its more traditional rival – television. Critical to the industry’s future is finding a solution to the sea-change among younger people who have moved away from the time-honored habit of reading the daily local paper.
The Naples Daily News and the completion of its sparkling new facilities on Immokalee Road are a tribute to its owner, Scripps News Corporation, and to the strong local staff and community commitment that have enabled the paper to thrive in these very difficult times.
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Polk County Government
Polk County, located in Central Florida, is the fourth
largest County in Florida encompassing
approximately 2,010 square miles. The county seat is
located in Bartow, Florida. This project included
renovations at eight county facilities, including the
County Courthouse, Administration Building,
Sheriff’s Operations Center, Historic Museum and
Library, Property Appraiser, Tax Collector, Tag
Agency, and Supervisor of Elections facilities.
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Saint Leo University
“In early 1997, our new
president asked, ‘What is
on the top of your list of
deferred maintenance
items?"
Without hesitating, I told him airconditioning
systems. That’s how
this started seven years ago as we
struggled to keep a hodge-podge of
30–45 year-old, direct-expansion and
small chillers working.” This is the
way Frank Mezzanini describes the
beginning of a process that has
resulted in the installation of a new
central chilled-water and campuswide
distribution and control
system. Mezzanini is vice president
and CFO of Saint Leo University in
Saint Leo, Florida. This Catholic
liberal arts school in west central
Florida, about 30 miles from Tampa,
has carved a reputation as a topnotch
school, willing to try new
programs to bring education out to
those who want it.
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Saint Petersburg Times – Printing Plant
Located in St. Petersburg, Florida. The central chilled
water plant, with a capacity of 1800 tons, serves the
St. Petersburg Times Printing Plant in Central
Pinellas County. The plant has been designed with
thermal energy storage and the highest energy
efficiency approach available.
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Shades of Green
Shades of Green is a 216,050 square foot resort
facility with 287 rooms. The resort is operated by the
United States Army for the benefit of active and
retired military personnel. All the revenue is self-generated
and the facility operates without taxpayer
support.
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St. Pete College - Gibbs Cooling Plant
The St. Petersburg College – Gibbs Cooling Plant provides chilled water for approximately one half million sq. ft. of building area and links 15 buildings. The plant began operating in 1994 and has an 1800-ton cooling capacity. It was recently converted to a Variable Primary Flow System to save energy and make the plant more efficient.
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South Florida Community College
South Florida Community College in Avon Park, Florida is the most recent Trane customer to execute a Long Term Partnership Agreement with Tampa Bay Trane. The college serves over 12,000 students through three campuses and several off-site centers, including the Highlands, Hardee and Desoto campuses and Lake Placid Center. While most students pursue Liberal Arts studies, SFCC also offers premed and pre-law course work.
TBT and SFCC have had a very successful and close working relationship for over 30 years and almost all of the HVAC equipment and controls on their 80 acre campus is Trane.
Dr. Robert Flores, Director, Remodeling, Renovation and Maintenance was looking for a way to formalize his efforts to make Trane his exclusive HVAC vendor. In the past, Dr. Flores was limited in his efforts to clearly communicate a desire to have only Trane products on each project with his architects and design engineers. Often, these activities produced less than satisfactory results, leaving the institution unable to standardize on operating procedures, spare parts, and maintenance.
TBT’s Long Term Partnership Agreement ensures the College receives consistent competitive pricing for both Trane equipment and Trane controls, extensive product training and a closer working relationship with a team of TBT sales, application and service personnel.
Dr. Flores remarked that the new agreement with TBT eliminates the need for him to be constantly monitoring the specifications and the bidding process on each new project. The Agreement assures him that SFCC and TBT will be working to make each project better.
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Tampa Museum of Art
The new Tampa Museum of Art opened to high public acclaim in January of 2010. The 66,000 square foot building replaces the former facility which was less than half its size. The Museum was designed by Stanley Saitowitz Associates of San Francisco, California and constructed by Skanska Inc. of Tampa. The lead mechanical design engineer was Al Lapera of TLC Engineers of Tampa.
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Tropicana Field
Located in St. Petersburg, Florida, Tropicana Field is
home to Major League Baseball’s Tampa Bay Devil
Rays. Originally constructed in 1989, Tropicana
Field underwent an $85 million upgrade that was
completed in 1998, bringing the total size of the
facility to 1.1 million square feet. This upgrade
included a guaranteed energy savings contract with
Trane for the installation of a 5100-ton chiller plant
and a complete building automation system.
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Ybor City District Plant
Located in Tampa, Florida, the Ybor City District Plant
provides chilled water for over 800,000 sq. ft. of
building including Hillsborough Community College’s
campus, Centro Ybor (a large commercial retail
complex), Ybor Square (an office/retail complex), a
cinema center called Muvico Theatres and the Hilton
Garden Inn Hotel.
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