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McDermott International, Houston, TX

New Construction

915 N. Eldridge Parkway, McDermott International, is an 18-story, 524,323-square-foot building that was completed in 2016. 1,700 employees occupy this modern building within the Energy Center of Houston, TX. Photo above by Kirksey.

General Contractor: D.E. Harvey
Mechanical Contractor: MLN
Architects: Kirksey

Scope of work:
This project is the largest Trane® Air-Fi® wireless system in Houston, Texas.

We took the existing BAS system that was Trane unitary controllers that were connected via BACnet comm wire to JACEs throughout the building and convert it to Trane® Air-Fi®. We converted the following equipment from the BACnet comm to Trane® Air-Fi®:
490 existing Fan Powered Terminal Units (Trane® Air-Fi®)
- Replaced wired thermostat with Trane® Air-Fi® wireless thermostats. 
54 Existing Variable Air Volume Boxes  (Trane® Air-Fi®)
- Replaced wired thermostat with Trane® Air-Fi® wireless thermostats. 
We kept the following equipment connected via BACnet
- 18 Air Handling Units
- 18 Air Handling Unit Variable Frequency Drives
- Chiller Plant
- Condensing Water System
40 Power meters were being monitored via integration into JACEs. 

We added the following equipment throughout the building:
85 New Fan Powered Terminal Units. (Trane® Air-Fi®)
- Utilizing Trane® Air-Fi® wireless thermostats
68 New Variable Air Volume Boxes (Trane® Air-Fi®)
- Utilizing Trane® Air-Fi® wireless thermostats
Integration into 20 New Leibert Units for cooling of IDF and MDF rooms
- We added these units via integration to the Building Automation System via BACnet comm to the Trane SC+ Supervisory Device.
- We added BTU meters at each Leibert unit and provide the data to the Building Automation System via BACnet comm wire.
Integration to 2 new Power meters.

We took the existing BAS from a Tridium front-end interface to a Trane Ensemble front-end.
We replaced the 10 JACE 8 controllers in the Building with Trane SC+ Supervisory Devices
We migrated the Chiller Plant and Condensing Water system from the Tridium system to the Trane Ensemble system
Created Trane Graphics for all of the equipment, existing and new, on the Trane Tracer Ensemble Front-End.


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