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February 6, 2009
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June 20-24, 2009
Cost: $20
Sunday, June 21
Scribner Place YMCA and Aquatic Center
3:15- 5:15 p.m.
The $23 million Scribner Place YMCA and Aquatic Center is a redevelopment project in downtown New Albany, Ind. (across the river from Louisville). The building has made a first step toward revitalizing New Albany's historic district. The long-awaited project had 2,000 membership units by opening day. Three months after opening, the YMCA has 3,200 membership units (10,000 members), or almost 14 percent of Floyd County's population.
Scribner Place is an 82,000-square-foot building, with a wellness center, gymnasium, group exercise studios, indoor track, a 3-story indoor climbing wall, multipurpose room, a high-tech active gaming experiences room and aquatic center with three pools.
Special design features include separate ventilation air controlled by building CO2 monitoring, variable refrigerant volume system for heating and cooling, natural day-lighting, and an aquatic center separated from the building by a glass wall, with pool dehumidification and building pressure differential control between the pool and adjacent areas. This technical tour features a look at the basement mechanical room next to the pool wall, the HVAC equipment outside of the building (for pool dehumidification) and on the roof (for ventilation air), and the Variable Refrigerant Volume system throughout the building.
Cost: $5
Development of central steam and chilled water plant
Monday, June 22
2:15-4:15 p.m.
(Site is about a 15 minute walk from the hotel)
Tour the plant and see its six boilers capable of 350,000 pounds of steam per hour and 28,000 tons of cooling capacity to serve over 5 million square feet of floor area in the medical center district. The replacement cost of the plant is estimated to be $75 million.
Operation of the plant began in November 1954 with three coal-fired steam boilers. In the early years, the agencies served were General Hospital, Frazier Rehab, Children’s Hospital, Jewish Hospital, the old Methodist Hospital, and the University of Louisville's Medical-Dental Research Building.
In the late 1960s, the plant added two more coal fired boilers, and a chilled water facility was constructed with initial capacity of 6000 tons. This expansion was required to serve the University’s new medical/dental school complex. Jefferson Community College was connected to the plant during that project.
Another major expansion was completed around 1980 adding a sixth boiler and more cooling capacity to serve Norton Hospital and the new University Hospital three-building complex.
Subsequent additions and renovations occurred through 2008 to serve new customers such as, Kosair Children’s Hospital, Rudd Heart and Lung Center, the Frazier expansion, and three large research buildings on the university campus.
Cost: $20
HVAC System for a Class 100/1000 cleanroom
Monday, June 22
2:30-5:00 p.m.
The Lutz Micro/Nano Technology Center, located in the Belknap Research Building at the University of Louisville, opened in 2006 and houses the only general purpose microfabrication cleanroom facility in the state of Kentucky.
The 10,000 square feet of class 100/1000 laboratory space is used for teaching fundamentals and current fabrication techniques to students and research activities related to integrated circuits, micro electro mechanical devices such as sensors and actuators and electro-optic devices.
The cleanroom air is conditioned to maintain precise temperatures and remove most particulates. Low particle counts in the cleanroom areas are achieved by air change rates of up to 240 air changes per hour and the use of several filtering stages with a final high-efficiency filter as the last stage.
Cost: $20
Tuesday, June 23
1:30-4 p.m.
CMTA, a top 100 MEP consulting engineering firm, designed its new corporate headquarters to showcase engineering techniques for in an energy efficient office building. The two-story, 20,000-square-foot building is being designed and constructed to LEED® Gold requirements and has received the Designed to Earn ENERGY STAR designation. The building is located in Norton Commons on the eastern edge of Louisville Metro.
The building was initially modeled at 33 kBtu/sf/yr and is targeted to achieve a greater than 95 percent ENERGY STAR® rating. Special features include insulated concrete form (ICF) walls, geothermal heating and cooling (800 sf/ton), daylighting (windows and solar tubes), solar domestic hot water heating and demand control ventilation for indoor air quality. CMTA has documented the cost of targeted LEED credits to demonstrate to potential clients how to cost effectively pursue LEED.