Walgreens’ HQ in suburban Chicago realized major savings after installing four condensing boilers in one of its mechanical rooms on the expansive corporate campus. Pictured here is Emcor Team Mechanical VP of Engineering Cindy Stelzer, P.E. Her company was the MEP engineering firm of record on the project.
There’s something to be said for networking.
Walgreens Manager of Building Operations, Bill Lewis is also treasurer of the Northern Illinois chapter of the International Facility Management Association. On one of the trade association’s facility tours to Techny Towers Conference and Retreat Center in Techny, Ill., Lewis was impressed by the size and efficiency of the newly installed condensing boilers.
“Techny showed substantial utility bill savings by replacing their old boilers,” he says.
Back at Walgreens corporate headquarters in the northern Chicago suburb of Deerfield, Ill., Lewis tasked Tim Spulak (HVACR foreman) and Sam Jones (HVAC technician) with studying the feasibility of replacing three old, inefficient low steam-pressure boilers with this new technology. The boilers heated the central plant they sat in and four five-story buildings spanning 364,000 sq. ft. of space on the expansive Deerfield corporate campus the drugstore giant calls home.