New System Reduces Labor Costs and Material Waste, Improves Energy Efficiency
At 35,000 acres, the Denver International Airport (DIA) is the largest airport site in North America — and the second largest in the world, with more than 53 million passengers traveling through the airport annually. With volume like that, it’s easy to understand why the airport’s HVAC filtration system is so important.
Yet, by 2009 the system had become an inefficient patchwork of solutions that required frequent attention from the maintenance department. In addition to needing its more than 3,000 filters changed out approximately eight times per year, which works out to about 24,000 filters annually, the existing system also demanded a lot of energy to operate.