innovation

ESVT recently provided engineering services to renovate the mechanical systems at Lothrop Elementary School in Pittsford, Vermont. This school was heated by oil-fired boilers which supplied a combination steam and hot water heating distribution to both the school building and adjacent Town Hall building. Classrooms were ventilated by poorly functioning unit ventilators and a pneumatic control system oversaw operation of equipment. Total square footage of both buildings is 40,000 square feet. Annual fuel oil consumption was around 19,300 gallons of No. 2 fuel oil. The scope of work included replacing one oil fired boiler with two 500 mbh Froling wood pellet boilers and a 36 ton exterior pellet storage silo. Two 400 gallon thermal storage