Total savings of $284,000 per year
Challenge
Multiple issues and inefficiencies
- Various types of air handlers needed to work together to control building pressure and reduce energy spend
- Critical space pressure compliance issues needed resolved
- Mentality of being an energy consumer versus an energy manager
Approach
Measure. Manage. Maximize.
- Pathian® provided turnkey engineering, construction management and commissioning services for all controls retrofit work
- Reprogrammed over 20 AHU’s to Pathian control strategy
- Automated Central Plant
- Processed custom and prescriptive rebates for all projects
- Implemented Pathian Analytics software to track, evaluate and sustain optimal equipment performance
Results
Major numbers. Massive savings.
- Over $3.1 M cumulative savings since 2012
- $284,000 per yr annual savings
- $240,100 per yr estimated electric (3,896,000 kWh/yr @ $0.062 per kWh)
- $43,900 per yr estimated natural gas (8,706 MCF/yr @ $5.04 per MCF)
- Improved Energy Star rating from a 16 to 69 from 2012 to 2017
- 27% reduction in Energy Use Intensity (EUI) from 269 kBtu/sf to 197 kBtu/sf
- ASHE E2C Award for >25% energy reduction in 2013
Other industries
Industry
Healthcare
Location
Florence, Kentucky
Building Facts
Surgical hospital
Built in 1979
390,000 sq ft
169 beds
ENERGY STAR® rating: 81
The results and savings are dramatic. I couldn’t be more pleased with Pathian.
– Matt G, St. Elizabeth Hospital