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Summary
In October, members of a design-build team that included Affiliated Engineers, DN Tanks, Lavellee Brensinger Architects, the Arch Energy division of Consigli Construction, and the civil engineer VHB were part of a ribbon-cutting ceremony on the campus of the University of New Hampshire in Durham, for a 1.4-million-gallon thermal energy storage tank that, with an interconnection to an existing plant, allows for a minimum of 10,400 ton-hours of chilled water produced during non-peak hours to be stored and then released as thermal energy during peak-use hours.
The new tank reduces the need for additional energy production, enabling UNH to decrease its dependence on non-renewable sources. Consigli and Arch Energy also helped the university unlock Inflation Reduction Act tax credits.
This is but one of a growing number of projects that are aimed at lowering the built environment’s carbon footprint. As often as not, these projects are responses to municipal mandates and/or longer-range climate commitments to make new and existing buildings more sustainable and carbon freer. The Higher Ed sector has led this movement, but owners of a wider variety of building types are also taking their life-cycle carbon emissions profile seriously by investigating new technologies and building techniques that reduce energy loads and the need for fossil-fueled energy sources.
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