Airtest's Unique Garage System Delivers Impressive Energy Savings - Again!
kWh Consumption and Peak kW Demand Reduced By 97% in San Mateo, CA, Garage
Delta, British Columbia CANADA, January 03, 2013 /FSC/ - AirTest Technologies Inc. (AAT - TSX Venture), announced today its innovative, sensor-based, demand-controlled ventilation (DCV) system has reduced by 97% the energy consumed by a garage ventilation system in a San Mateo, CA, high-rise office building. In so doing, the AirTest system lowered the property's garage ventilation costs from $19,300 a year to just $580 - or to $2 a day.
Engineers for the regional public utility verified the savings, noting the AirTest system shaved 12% off the entire property's electric bill.
Nagle Energy Solutions (NES), a leading green-technology consulting and installation company (and AirTest distributor), project designed and managed the installation of the AirTest system. Post-installation measurements by NES confirm annual energy savings provided by the AirTest system amount to 110,100 kWh and reduced peak energy consumption by 35.20 kW - all while running the property's garage fans continuously during the office building's business hours. The system will pay for itself in just 27 months.
"It's not every day that retrofitting such an important - and sizeable - building operation system produces a 97% energy savings, short of shutting if off entirely," said AirTest President George Graham. "Our recent sensor based garage ventilation projects with NES demonstrate our ability to consistently maximize energy savings while ensuring the health and safety of building occupants. This further validates our leadership position in enclosed parking garage ventilation."
AirTest and NES are making a habit of achieving noteworthy energy saving results. The string of successes for AirTest and NES includes:
* The installation at the American Academy of Ophthalmology in San Francisco reduced energy costs in their commercial garage by 95.7%. Prior to the installation of the new AirTest DCV system, the garage represented 10% of their total annual operating budget and post retrofit this percentage dropped to less than 0.5% of the annual budget.
* Achieving a 94% kWh savings and a 96% peak demand reduction after quadrupling the fan runtimes of a San Francisco office-building garage ventilation system powered by 130 horsepower; and
* Reducing the kWh consumption of a commercial garage on Nob Hill in San Francisco by 93% while cutting peak kW demand by 95%.
The San Mateo property is a six-story office building with a 100,000-plus square-foot, below-grade parking garage. The garage ventilation system consists of four (4) exhaust fans totaling 40 horsepower (HP), which prior to installing the Air Test system, property management ran 14 hours a day, five (5) days a week. Post installation, garage fan runtimes were set to run on a 12/5 basis.
AirTest's DCV system for garages utilizes a proprietary, smart-control logic that detects and measures vehicle fumes in the garage space and then modulates fan speeds to prevent CO levels from exceeding 10 parts per million (ppm) for extended periods of time. This enables it to consistently achieve greater energy savings - up to and beyond 95% - while ensuring the health and safety of building occupants and visitors by providing continuous ventilation.
About AirTest:
AirTest Technologies, Inc. (www.airtest.com) is a Green-Tech company specializing in sensors that improve commercial building operating efficiency and, at the same time, generate energy savings. These sensors are all based on technical innovations developed in the last 10-plus years and comprise a growing second wave of energy saving technologies that make a significant contribution to the sustainability of buildings. AirTest offers its products to leading-edge building owners, contractors and energy service companies targeting the buildings market.
About Nagle Energy Solutions:
Based in Menlo Park, CA, Nagle Energy Solutions (www.nagle-energy.com) is a green technology consulting, distribution and installation company providing expert strategies and superior technologies designed to dramatically improve commercial property operating efficiencies and, as a result, generate sizable energy savings. NES sells and installs AirTest's carbon monoxide (CO) and carbon dioxide (CO2) sensor systems, each of which significantly reduce energy costs, and while its primary focus is on the Northern California market, NES has extended its sales and service capabilities to some other U.S. markets.
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For further information, please contact:
Mr. George Graham, President
AirTest Technologies
Phone: (604) 517 3888
Email: ggraham@airtest.com
Website: www.airtest.com
Twitter: Twitter.com/AirTestTech
Frank Nagle, Principal
Nagle Energy Solutions
Phone: (650) 854 1992
Email: frank@nagle-energy.com
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