Application: | Distribution Company Specializing in Grocery Products |
Location: | Wisconsin |
Building Square Footage: | 130,000 |
Building Cubic Footage: | 2,921,600 |
System Style & Quantity: | 6 Outdoor Heating & Cooling Johnson Air-Rotation Systems, for redundancy purposes required by client |
Dock Doors: | 13 |
Design
- Company growth resulted in the need for nearly doubling the facility to approximately 245,000 square feet with an average ceiling height of 32 feet.
- The existing 130,000 square foot facility was heated with gas unit heaters.
Solution
- Johnson worked with the distribution company and a local engineering firm to have the old gas unit heaters removed.
- Those were replaced with three Johnson Air-Rotation Systems to heat the newly expanded 245,000 square foot space.
Results
- The Wisconsin Public Service Gas Company provided a fuel usage analysis, which calculates gas use for the year prior to the addition of the Air-Rotation Systems and for the year after.
- To make before and after comparisons accurate, all figures have been adjusted for degree-days to reflect the difference in the daily temperatures between the winters before and after adding Johnson Air-Rotation Systems.
- The distribution company nearly doubled the building size while cutting fuel costs by over 30%! Johnson Air-Rotation Systems are heating nearly twice the space with less gas than the distribution company used before the addition.
- With a conservative cost per therm of $1.06, this equals more than $50,000 in savings in one heating season alone!
- This savings results in a return on investment in as little as 2-3 years.