2012 Green Building Festival Hi-Rise Geo Condo Project Why Go High-Performance?

Oct 12th, 2012

Vince Molinaro

President, Molinaro Group

Who we are? What we do?

Why go high performance?

Strata case study

Future projects

Topics

Who we are

Molinaro Group

Leadership – the right thing to do

Competitive advantage

Marketing

Financial

Why Go High Performance?

Strata

LEED® Certification

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Each Suite:

Geo Field

76 holes

560 ft

Heat Absorption

Geothermal Heating

Geo Field

Each Suite:

76 holes

560 ft

Heat Rejection

Geothermal Cooling

Components of a Geothermal

Internal portion

Geothermal heatpump unit

supplies heating or cooling

the space

External portion

Fluid is circulated through a

network of vertical bore

holes to extract/reject heat

into the ground from

heatpump unit

External Geothermal Field

Heat rejection in summer; heat absorption in winter

Basement mech room – geo pumps circulate fluid to heat exchanger; central W/W heat pumps deliver building fluid to suite heat pumps

Geofield located under building: 76 vertical holes; 560 ft depth

Long-term energy agreement

Strata

Strata Condominium Energy Cost Analysis

Fairview Street Burlington

Thank you