Patten CAT | Five Locations
Retrofit Team
HVAC Installer: Patten CAT Facilities Team
HVAC Manufacturer’s Rep: Air Products Equipment, Elk Grove Village, Ill.
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For more than 80 years, Patten CAT , a Caterpillar equipment dealer, has focused on its mission of “providing quality products and unparalleled services” to customers. These high standards include bringing customers cost-effective and efficient solutions, so it’s no surprise that Patten CAT facilities managers have a similar mindset when it comes to heating and ventilating their numerous high-bay buildings.
With a focus on saving energy and reducing utility costs, Patten CAT in 2005 launched what has become a successful heating retrofit program. It began when the firm replaced older, less efficient heating units in its Oglesby, Ill., facility with high temperature heating and ventilation (HTHV) equipment from Cambridge Engineering Inc. Company representatives soon realized significant energy savings, not to mention better comfort for employees during frigid Chicagoland winters.
Since that first project, Patten CAT has retrofitted four additional facilities with Cambridge S-Series units, with the latest project qualifying for an energy-efficiency rebate from Nicor Gas, the local utility, which is based in Clinton, Iowa.
Terry Flick, facility manager for Patten CAT , says the Cambridge units are “long lasting and economical. Whenever I have to update something I keep going back to Cambridge.”
Flick is also pleased with the fact that the Cambridge units are a 100 percent outside air heating technology, providing positive pressurization for the buildings, which helps keep cold air out and improves the indoor air quality for employees during winter heating months. “Even on a 0-degree day, the units still provide a 160-F discharge temperature, which keeps our facilities nice and warm,” Flick says. He adds the previous heating units struggled to achieve a 60-degree discharge air temperature when the outside temperature dropped down to 0 F.
Heating Units Manufacturer: Cambridge Engineering Inc.
Photo: Cambridge Engineering Inc.