LOVETT, Inc. started its largest project to date for Geo Tility http://www.geotility.ca/ in Sandy, Oregon this year. The new Sandy High School, being built by Hoffman Construction (http://hoffmanshs.com/), required a geothermal/geoexchange system be installed to reduce the amount of energy used to heat and cool the high school. This system is part of Geo Tility’s low carbon solution for achieving a sustainable future.
LOVETT’s scope of work for the project began in April, 2011. LOVETT’s challenge was to use directional drilling to install 228,000 feet of 1 ¼” HDPE SDR 11 piping. The LOVETT team directionally drilled this piping underground at varying depths across thousands of feet of fields to achieve the required amount of piping to heat and cool the new campus facilities. The piping was then fused into a loop system that will recirculate fluid at ambient earth temperatures of 55 Degrees Fahrenheit. This recirculation will reduce the amount of energy demand required of a HVAC Pump needed to heat and cool air in the facilities.
The building project is scheduled for completion in time for Fall 2012 classes. The new geothermal/geoexchange ground source heating system is in the final stages of completion for the underground portion. Testing of the new system is tentatively scheduled for August 2011. For information or questions related to the scope of work completed by LOVETT, please contact Waylon Knight at 503-737-8423.
