NU Tarry Research & Education Center AHU and RO System Replacement

ADDRESS: Northwestern University Chicago, Tarry Research and Education Building, East Superior Street, Chicago, IL, USA
BUILDING TYPE: Office and Research Laboratories
TEAM / TEAM LEAD:
TEAM / TEAM LEAD: Dustin Langille, Bhupendra Tailor
ELARA ROLE: MEP Engineer

Project Highlights & Results

  • Phased replacement of (4) existing, 62,000 CFM field-erected lab air handling units. Units provide ventilation air for medical research in the Tarry building as well as portions of the neighboring Ward and Morton buildings.
  • The new lab air handling units incorporate active filtration, heat recovery coils, adiabatic humidification, low temperature hot water coils, chilled water coils, and variable speed fan arrays.
  • A new central reverse osmosis system was also installed to serve the building’s deionization system for lab use, adiabatic humidification, and cooling tower makeup water. The system operates at 92% efficiency compared to standard 70% efficient RO systems and is one of only a few systems of it’s type in the Chicago area.
  • Construction was phased to replace one AHU at a time to ensure that a minimum of (3) AHUs were operational to serve the medical research laboratories continuously.

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