Medina City School District

House Bill 264 Energy Conservation Program

The Brewer-Garrett Company has established a long term relationship with Medina City School District. Brewer-Garrett has been providing cost savings solutions, which include energy efficient heating/ventilating equipment, lighting retrofits, vending machines, and building automation system upgrades since 2007.

In the latest phase of House Bill 264 Energy Conservation Projects, significant mechanical upgrades were made throughout the District. 

Medina City Schools was very successful at implementing facility improvement and energy conservation programs. The District Maintenance personnel worked very hard to maintain the District’s infrastructure so the projects that the Brewer-Garrett team focused on for this program fine-tuned the already well run facilities. 

Brewer-Garrett utilized this strategy in the following areas: energy efficient chillers, heat recovery system for pools, variable speed drives, updated energy efficient lighting, lighting control retrofits, water conservation, demand ventilation, vending machine controls, and building automation system upgrades and enhancements.

The District-wide lighting retrofit incorporated the new 28W T8 energy efficient lamp to maximize the energy efficiency of the newest technologies and increasing the lamp life, resulting in less re-lamping over the life of the system.  The Brewer-Garrett team also installed dual technology occupancy sensors as well as timer switches for areas that benefited from automatic lighting controls and an updated lighting controls system.

To reduce the energy used in vending machine areas a load-managing device was installed. This device uses a passive infrared occupancy sensor to turn off the machine when the surrounding area is unoccupied and turn it back on when the area is reoccupied. The device also monitors the ambient temperature while the vending machine if off, and powers up the machine when required to ensure that the product stays cold.  

The Building Automation System upgrades provided significant energy savings while improving the building responsiveness and comfort level. The BAS enhancements included new software to provide for many functions such as trending, scheduling and metering to be monitored in an easy to use graphical and Excel format.

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