Chiller Plant Helps Boost Sales at Tanglewood Mall
PISCATAWAY, N.J. - Tanglewood Mall in Roanoke, Va., needed a major renovation to keep current tenants and their customers comfortable while luring new tenants to fill the available spaces. Not satisfied with a cosmetic facelift, mall manager Urban Properties tapped Trane to coordinate a $1.8 million turnkey project to replace the building's 33-year-old chilled-water plant.
Many components of the existing chilled water plant, which was built in 1973, had failed, making it unreliable and costly to maintain. The mall was especially interested in cutting energy costs, since it acted as a utility, invoicing tenants for electricity and chilled water use.