Reuters Building - 3 Times Square

Owner -  3 Times Square Associates, LLC
Trade Engineer -  Jaros, Baum and Bolles
Construction Manager -  Tishman Construction Corp. of New York

New office building - 835,000 sq. ft., 32 stories of offices, retail spaces, lobbies, conference rooms, structural steel frame, and curtain wall.

Services provided: Complete installation of heating and air conditioning system as per plans and specifications.
Heating system: Hybrid central heating plant includes two absorption chillers with hot water generators for perimeter finned tube radiation and numerous pressure reducing steam stations to produce low pressure steam for central air handling units, unit heaters, cabinet unit heaters, domestic hot water heaters. The required outdoor air is supplied into each floor's mechanical room by two centralized air handling units and is preheated by air-to-air energy recovery system.
Cooling system: Hybrid central cooling plant, located on the 31st floor, includes (2) 650 ton gas fired two stage absorption chillers and (2) 1350 ton centrifugal electric chillers. Each office floor is served by central air handling units with chilled water coils. Chilled water is distributed to chilled water coils by primary-secondary pumping system. Water side economizer is utilized for "free" cooling.
Fuel oil system: (2) 20,000 gallon and (1) 12,000 gallon fuel oil tanks are utilized to supply #2 oil to absorption chillers/heaters and emergency generators.


Services Utilized
  Installation
 
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