McKim & Creed Wins Award for Energy-Saving Project
Raleigh, NC, May 30, 2013 --(PR.com)-- McKim & Creed, Inc., an engineering, surveying and planning firm headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, has won a technology award for its work on a U.S. Postal Service project that reduces energy consumption by 11.1 percent, cuts CO2 emissions by 338 metro tons annually (roughly the equivalent of 71 passenger vehicles), improves indoor air quality and enhances operations and maintenance.
The award for the USPS Fayetteville (N.C.) Processing and Distribution Center HVAC Upgrades project was presented to McKim & Creed by the Triangle chapter of ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers). The project will now be entered in the Region 4 (North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia) ASHRAE competition.
In addition to McKim & Creed, the project team included Heery International, David Bordeaux of Bordeaux Construction, Smith’s Refrigeration and Watson Electrical.
“With the team we developed for this United States Postal Service HVAC Upgrades project, something special happened,” said Steve Scarano, design and construction project manager in the USPS Facilities Department. “Through the team’s efforts, the project changed the building’s conditioned environment for the life cycle of the facility. From all of us here at the US Postal Service, we want to say thank you for improving our work environment for many years to come.”
McKim & Creed* provided electrical and mechanical engineering services for facility upgrade. “When the engineers at McKim & Creed became involved, they realized that there were many building-related conditions that would have to be addressed to make the HVAC upgrades perform correctly and equate to an energy savings,” said Scarano. “Through their many years of experience they corrected many building load conditions and overcame obstacles that would have otherwise been overlooked, such as lack of preventive maintenance space, splitting large zones and adding HVAC capacity to correct deficiencies.”
The project was completed for $360,000 under budget and saves the operations and distribution center facility nearly $40,000 each year in operating costs. The facility operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. On average, workers process 3 million pieces of mail every day.
*The project was completed by United Engineering Group prior to its acquisition by McKim & Creed in January 2013.
About McKim & Creed: McKim & Creed is a 400-person, employeeAS-owned engineering, geomatics and planning firm with offices in North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Georgia, Texas and Michigan. The company was established in 1978 and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. McKim & Creed has won numerous awards and accolades, and has been ranked the #1 surveying and mapping firm in the Southeast by Engineering News-Record Southeast and one of the top 500 design firms in the United States by Engineering News-Record.
The award for the USPS Fayetteville (N.C.) Processing and Distribution Center HVAC Upgrades project was presented to McKim & Creed by the Triangle chapter of ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers). The project will now be entered in the Region 4 (North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia) ASHRAE competition.
In addition to McKim & Creed, the project team included Heery International, David Bordeaux of Bordeaux Construction, Smith’s Refrigeration and Watson Electrical.
“With the team we developed for this United States Postal Service HVAC Upgrades project, something special happened,” said Steve Scarano, design and construction project manager in the USPS Facilities Department. “Through the team’s efforts, the project changed the building’s conditioned environment for the life cycle of the facility. From all of us here at the US Postal Service, we want to say thank you for improving our work environment for many years to come.”
McKim & Creed* provided electrical and mechanical engineering services for facility upgrade. “When the engineers at McKim & Creed became involved, they realized that there were many building-related conditions that would have to be addressed to make the HVAC upgrades perform correctly and equate to an energy savings,” said Scarano. “Through their many years of experience they corrected many building load conditions and overcame obstacles that would have otherwise been overlooked, such as lack of preventive maintenance space, splitting large zones and adding HVAC capacity to correct deficiencies.”
The project was completed for $360,000 under budget and saves the operations and distribution center facility nearly $40,000 each year in operating costs. The facility operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. On average, workers process 3 million pieces of mail every day.
*The project was completed by United Engineering Group prior to its acquisition by McKim & Creed in January 2013.
About McKim & Creed: McKim & Creed is a 400-person, employeeAS-owned engineering, geomatics and planning firm with offices in North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Georgia, Texas and Michigan. The company was established in 1978 and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. McKim & Creed has won numerous awards and accolades, and has been ranked the #1 surveying and mapping firm in the Southeast by Engineering News-Record Southeast and one of the top 500 design firms in the United States by Engineering News-Record.
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www.mckimcreed.com
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