Vince Molinaro Reasons to go high performance with geothermal and an energy cost analysis of Strata Condominium

1. 2012 Green Building Festival
Hi-Rise Geo Condo Project
Why Go High-Performance?
Oct 12th, 2012
Vince Molinaro
President, Molinaro Group

2. Topics
 Who we are? What we do?
 Why go high performance?
 Strata case study
 Future projects

3. Molinaro Group
 Who we are

4. Why Go High Performance?
 Leadership – the right thing to do
 Competitive advantage
 Marketing
 Financial

5. Strata
LEED® Certification

6. Geothermal Heating
Each Suite:
Geo Field
c
76 holes
560 ft
Heat Absorption

7. Geothermal Cooling
Each Suite:
Geo Field
76 holes
560 ft
Heat Rejection

8. 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

9. External Geothermal Field
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
Heat rejection in
summer; heat
absorption in
winter

10. Strata
 Long-term energy agreement

11. Strata Condominium Energy Cost Analysis

12. Fairview Street Burlington

13. Thank you