NYSERDA Technical Assistance Program

Project:   Pratt Institute Higgins Hall

Location: Brooklyn , New York

Completion Date: Ongoing

Higgins Hall is a 130 year-old building meticulously restored to serve as Pratt Institute’s home for the School of Architecture after having suffered extensive fire damage. With the building’s two wings and a 24,000 square foot addition underway, the single cooling plant that serves the building was in need of upgrade.

McClave Engineering, through the Trane New York office, has begun a NYSERDA Technical Assistance program to examine the existing cooling plant and determine the most effective solution to upgrading the plant. The determining factors will be the balance of energy efficiency, installation costs, and the operations and maintenance costs. The overall recommendation will be based on this total life cycle cost analysis.

Our cutting edge analysis includes examining numerous cooling plant options including:

• Air cooled chillers
• Water cooled chillers
• Water cooled ground source chillers
• Chillers with the addition of Thermal Storage

Our energy engineering department has conducted energy conservation projects and feasibility studies on all types of buildings including schools, hospital and medical facilities, college and universities, commercial real estate and industrial plants.