This 1.7 million dollar project at the Suffolk County Jail
on Nashua Street intended to curtail the use of steam heating
at this facility. To effect this change, JFW and their design
engineer, VAV International, have installed a gas fired
condensing boiler plant with an input capacity of 12 million
BTU/ Hr and have modified the building and domestic water
heating systems to improve and simplify them. In addition,
the cooling system was upgraded by replacing the chillers
and cooling tower with new equipment designed to better
match the existing load and ambient conditions and deliver
greater efficiencies.
One challenging aspect of this project was that
because this site is an active jail, all work was closely
coordinated between the owner, J.F. White and the design
team to prevent any incident that could cause the jail to suffer
a shutdown or compromise security. This was accomplished
with no incidents.
