“In my mind, that’s very forward thinking.” “On the front end, it costs a lot of money to dig those (geothermal) wells and run that tubing, but on the back end, you get the utility savings,” Manheim Township superintendent Kevin Singer said. While the high-tech components cost about 10 percent more than a conventional heating, ventilation and air conditioning system, the school district predicts they will cut energy costs by 30 percent. The $80.4 million construction and renovation is the largest school project in the United States to use the technology, said Jeff Harris, the mechanical engineer who designed the system.Īnd it may be the largest public school project in the Western Hemisphere to use a radiant system, which circulates cooled or warmed water through a building’s floors, Harris said. The tubes will carry water - the lifeblood of the geothermal and radiant heating and cooling systems that will make this one of the most unique, and energy efficient, schools in the world. LANCASTER - To the untrained eye, the construction at Manheim Township High School may look like any other large-scale school building project.īut deep beneath and within the new corridors and floors of the school are miles of polyethylene tubes, coursing through the project like veins through a human body. Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience.
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