Case Study

New England Business Service  (NEBS) - Maryville, MO

New England Business Service's Maryville Missouri facility is a paper forms printing plant.

The building's major mechanical systems include:

Phase One of this project involved replacing the existing DDC system with a Delta Controls ORCA Series DDC system.  The existing system had Y2K issues.  While updating the equipment, corporate and local facility management put forth a list of goals that they wanted to accomplish during the replacement. These included:

1. Minimize operating and energy expenses.
2. Track the buildings mechanical performance.
3. Control the ventilation requirements using motorized dampers and Carbon Dioxide sensors.
4. Control the buildings internal static pressure.
5. Maintain tighter control of humidity levels to control paper stretch while printing.
6. Install a Graphical Operator Interface.
7. Reduce the operator workload in the day-to-day operations of the HVAC system.

R. L. Shields Associates, Inc. installed 1 Delta Controls ORCA Series DCU Controller and 8 Delta Controls Micro Controllers.

To control ventilation requirements, Carbon Dioxide (CO2) sensors were installed in the office and production areas.  As CO2 levels rise, the outside dampers modulate open to keep the CO2 readings below maximum acceptable levels.  Carbon Dioxide has become an acceptable method of controlling ventilation requirements and is recognized by ASHRAE as one method of monitoring air quality.

To control building static pressures, a network of sensing ports was installed around the four sides of the building.  Since the Delta Zone Controllers allowed full control over the dampers in the Carrier units, as the static pressure starts to go negative, the dampers begin to modulate open to allow outside air to enter the building through the cooling units rather than the doors.

Some special software was developed by R. L. Shields Associates for use on this site and others.

1. Demand Side Management Software - This software is used to calculate the electrical demand, consumption and projects demand based on a minute by minute calculation. This enables the computer and operator to make changes in operation to avoid setting demand peaks.  To better understand Electric Demand, click here.
2. Sunrise/Sunset Time Calculation - This controls the parking lot and building exterior lighting based on Sunrise and Sunset. The eliminates the problems associated with power failures skewing the time clocks and provides for the adjustment to Daylight Savings Time and Daylight Standard Time.

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