Winter Games
The XXI Winter Games may now be over but they leave behind them an admirable legacy. This success can partly be attributed to the organisers who ensured that whatever infrastructure was added to support the Games was incorporated into the area sympathetically and that all the new and refurbished/extended facilities met the highest environmental standards.
There are several good examples of how this manifested itself, including the Athletes Village. The village itself was built on an old municipal landfill site and comprises of a range of 10 buildings that subdivide into 1,100 condos and other units that will now become home to the local community.
But perhaps the gold medal performance should be awarded to the advanced district energy system that was purpose built 500m from the village. This award winning system takes the effluent heat from the municipal wastewater treatment system, recovers it and circulates it by way of three PACO (part of the Grundfos family of companies) base-mounted pumps. Supplied complete with premium efficiency motors these pumps effortlessly circulate the water through 2 kilometres of pipes that connect all the buildings, it is expected that 95% of the village’s entire consumption will be realised from the wastewater treatment. The remaining 5% is being supplied by traditional hot water boilers, that will also provide back-up, roles undertaken by a range of Grundfos UPE and TPE pumps.
This district heating system is the largest undertaken in Canada to date and Bill Vaughan Senior Design Engineer with DEC Design explains “designing the district heating system has been an amazing project to work on because it has never before been done on this scale in Canada. Obviously when you take something so challenging you will want to be able to rely 100% on the expertise and reliability of your suppliers. Having worked with Grundfos for nearly 20 years, they were the natural choice”.
For further information please contact;
GRUNDFOS Pumps Ltd.
Grovebury Road, Leighton Buzzard
Bedfordshire, LU7 4TL
England
Phone: (+44) 1525 850000
www.grundfos.co.uk
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