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Home » Authors » Amanda Parolise

Articles by Amanda Parolise

Facility Files

Facility Files: Installing a VRF Sytem in an Office Building

Amanda Parolise
February 13, 2019

This month’s Facility File is based on a new 40,000-square-foot office building HVAC system using VRF heat pump equipment with a focus on the Back2Basics February test. The project will include two VRF systems, each serving approximately 20,000 square feet of space. The building will also have a 100 percent DOAS gas-fired rooftop HVAC system for ventilation to the occupants in the building.


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Construction Mangaement: Smoke Control in a Metro Tunnel Renovation

Amanda Parolise
January 14, 2019

This month's Facility Files will focus on the Back2Basics test addressing the renovation of an existing Metro station with the addition of a new smoke evacuation system located within the building and within the subway’s inbound and outbound tunnels. The associated ADA-compliant elevator will have its own stand-alone, engineered, smoke control, 100 percent outside air fan to a positive-pressurized elevator shaft system.


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Replacing a Utility Company's Steam System with a High-efficiency Condensing Boiler System

Office building boiler replacement performance contract project
Amanda Parolise
December 11, 2018

This month’s Facility File will focus on the B2B December test for the energy retrofit of a commercial office building hot water heating system conversion from a utility company steam system to a new, high-efficiency condensing boiler system.


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Adding a 100-ton, Year-round, Standby Cooling Tower Addition to a Pharmaceutical Facility

Amanda Parolise
November 9, 2018

This month’s Facility File will focus on the B2B November test for the addition of a 100-ton, year-round cooling tower addition as standby to an existing, older cooling tower serving a process cooling system in a pharmaceutical facility.


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Recommissioning an 800,000-square-foot in-patient health care facility's boiler room

Amanda Parolise
October 8, 2018

This month’s B2B will focus on an 800,000-square-foot existing in-patient health care facility committed to recommissioning its boiler room operation and maintenance management to maintain a highly performing, safe boiler plant environment.


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Retrofitting 160-ton Air-cooled Chillers to an 80-ton TES System

Amanda Parolise
September 10, 2018

This month’s B2B will focus on an existing two-story commercial office building receiving an energy grant to retrofit the existing air-cooled 160-ton chillers to an 80-ton, thermal energy storage (TES) system with new variable flow chilled water equipment.


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The Art of Replacing an Antiquated, Remote, High-pressure Steam Boiler

Amanda Parolise
August 7, 2018

This month’s Facility File will focus on a new central, high-efficient, hot water boiler plant to replace an antiquated remote high-pressure steam boiler plant serving a campus setting.


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Combined Heat and Power Integrated Project Delivery

Amanda Parolise
July 10, 2018

This month’s Facility File is based on a 1,000-kW cogeneration unit with hot water energy recovery to an existing health care campus process heating system and the domestic hot water heating system that serves this health care campus.


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Engineered Smoke Control In A Hospital: New Construction Using Construction Management Project Delivery

Amanda Parolise
June 4, 2018

This month’s B2B will focus on a college building program to add dormitory building smoke exhaust systems to serve existing corridors in three four-story buildings.


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Industrial Facility Standby Emergency Generator Design-Build Project

Amanda Parolise
May 5, 2018

This month’s Facility File will focus on an industrial facility capital project to furnish and install an emergency generator within its own generator room.


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