aintenance and engineering managers at institutional and commercial facilities face mounting challenges in adopting smart boiler technologies due to rising compliance demands, limited budgets and a growing shortage of skilled labor — all against a backdrop of increasingly complex operational needs. Today’s smart commercial boiler technology offers managers several operational advantages, including real-time data and predictive maintenance capabilities, which can provide significant cost and energy savings. In 2020, the facilities team at Allina Health’s Abbott Northwestern Hospital, the largest private hospital in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, began planning to consolidate four aging boiler plants — some dating back to the 1950s — into one centralized facility. The result was a $200 million, 70,000-square-foot central utility plant (CUP) that now provides steam and chilled water for heating and cooling 1.8 million square feet of space via 1,000 linear feet of underground utility distribution tunnels while also generating on-site electricity. Updating system Replacing eight legacy boilers with three high-efficiency smart boilers from Rentech doubled the hospital’s steam and cooling capacity, says Smith Bradley, the hospital’s facilities maintenance and engineering manager.
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