Estrella Engineering designs award-winning HVAC system for
RideOut Elementary School

In 2001, the Clay County School Board hired Estrella Engineering to design an air-conditioning system for a 78,200-square-foot space in RideOut Elementary School in Middleburg, Fla. Estrella Engineering designed a $1.25 million HVAC system, which utilized energy recovery and demand-based ventilation design.

Estrella Engineering’s design reduced equipment capacities, and energy and maintenance costs by utilizing energy recovery. Demand-based ventilation is achieved by utilizing a direct digital control system to monitor carbon dioxide levels to determine the building’s occupancy level. Based on those results, the DDC system automatically adjusts the ventilation rate, minimizing energy consumption.

The cost-effective, energy-efficient design earned Estrella Engineering the Regional American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineer Technology Award in 2002.

Estrella Engineering won an ASHRAE Award for its design of a cost-effective and energy-efficient HVAC system for RideOut Elementary School in Middleburg, Fla.