Staffing the boiler plant and ensuring operations are safe, efficient, and operating properly is an age-old problem, and one that a hospital client of ours recently encountered. Luckily, by using a combination of people, technology, and a solid Standard Operating Procedure Powers can solve this headache.

Powers is proud to be part of the largest energy savings project in Arkansas to create a new electrical generator plan for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). We are working with CDI general contractors, Bernhard, and other partners under an Energy Performance Contract which includes the construction of this generator plant, providing 100% back-up power for the entire campus.

What do you do when your chiller needs major repairs to keep it going and summer is fast approaching? And what if that chiller serves a critical area like a server room, the heartbeat of the business? Our customer needed their chiller for this critical server room operational and to be so quickly.

Powers was called to address poor air distribution at one of Pratt & Whitney's manufacturing facilities. We found a solution that would help redistribute the air and also maximize the comfort and efficiency of the HVAC system.

This project was a design build solution by Powers that transformed a poorly operating HVAC system into an efficient system that also increased the occupant comfort level. The DX AHU was leaking and inefficient. The VAV boxes were poorly zoned and not controlling properly due to outdated pneumatics and lack of volume control.

An old air cooled chiller had run its course in the Choctaw Building occupied by the Clinton School for Public Service and needed to be replaced. Meanwhile, 10-year-old inefficient Trane chillers were costing their neighbor next door, the William J. Clinton Presidential Library, a ton of money. Together they needed a solution that could provide chilled water for both facilities more efficiently as well as a better Building Automation and Controls System that could operate the chiller plant along with the entire facility.