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This marks Smith + Andersen’s fourth healthcare facility award by ASHRAE in the last decade.
At the centre of this recognition is the hospital’s innovative geothermal system, which serves as the primary source for heating and cooling. Designed to deliver significant energy savings and reduce operating costs over the facility’s lifespan, the system features a geothermal field located beneath the hospital’s parking lot. This field includes approximately 375 boreholes, each drilled 600 feet deep, totaling nearly 500,000 linear feet of piping.
This installation represents the largest geothermal system in a healthcare facility in Canada, and the second largest across all building types nationwide. It is expected to dramatically reduce annual heating energy consumption and eliminate the use of fossil fuels.
Congratulations to the entire team for this achievement and well-deserved recognition!
