Aquatherm Helps Dry Up Industrial Laundry Facility's Leak Woes

Located in the Cincinnati suburb of Covington, KY, Tri-State Health Care Laundry provides its services to several facilities in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Featuring 52-foot-long washing machines and 12-foot-tall dryers with 8-foot tumblers, the facility manages to churn out crisply washed linens, uniforms, and other laundered items on a massive basis.

In keeping with the largesse of the process, the facility also has a tremendous amount of piping – well over 1,500 linear feet. Coursing through all that piping is an enormous amount of process water – almost 1 million gallons a month. Of course the water, detergents, and other chemicals are extremely corrosive.

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Piping Alternative Combines With New Chiller to Help Airport Hotel's A/C Take Off

The nine-story, 296-room Embassy Suites Nashville – Airport hotel was built in the 1980s, and its original chiller and piping had reached their logical replacement point. Over the years a couple of the existing Schedule 40 carbon elbows on the system had sprung leaks and some of the galvanized pipe had experienced considerable corrosion. Thus, keeping the new piping leak- and corrosion-free was a big concern.

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One of Utah's LEEDing Residences

When pondering their very own green building and “the Three R’s” associated with the green building movement (reduce, reuse, recycle), Bill and Mary Andolsek started with the recycling aspect first and foremost.

The couple decided to raze an existing home in the northeast sector of Salt Lake City, and replace it with a much greener home more to their liking. But from the onset of the project, the Andolseks focused on recycling.

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Green Piping Alternative Delivers Elementary Savings and Success

Situated in northern Utah, the city of Logan is home to almost 50,000 residents and Utah State University. With the city’s under-18 population growing, the Logan City School District found itself needing more elementary school capacity and ventured to expand Woodruff Elementary School in winter 2008.

The 50,000 square-foot building was originally built in 1984, and the expansion would grow the building by another 25,000 square feet. The expansion project was pretty straightforward and involved nothing overly challenging.

One relatively unique aspect of the project, however, was introduced by the plumbing contractor on the job, Carson Mechanical. Copper prices were at an all-time high, and the company’s owner, Randy Godfrey, identified Woodruff as an ideal project on which to deploy Aquatherm, a copper alternative, for potable water.

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Piping Withstands Heat in Flood Disaster

In early May, record-breaking flash floods in Tennessee, Mississippi,and Kentucky killed dozens of people and destroyed homes and businesses throughout the region. Nashville was hit particularly hard, and several businesses and institutions (such as the storied Grand Ole Opry, which was forced to reschedule events at various venues around Music City) were devastated.

While the Cumberland River, which reached a 70-year high — 12 feet above flood stage — slowly receded, facility managers struggled to repair damages and remove flood waters from their properties. Tim Cook, special equipment repair lead technician with Vanderbilt University in Nashville, and his staff were faced with the dilemma of trying to deal with a flooded 5,000-foot-long V-shaped utility tunnel.

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