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Pennsylvania Convention Center

For the Pennsylvania Convention Center, ensuring visitor safety and comfort, while maintaining high sustainability, has been transformed from vision to reality.

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Overview

The Pennsylvania Convention Center, located in the heart of Philadelphia, serves as one of the city’s pillars in supporting the hospitality industry. With typical visitor traffic welcoming over 1 million guests a year, the 2 million square foot facility helps drive $600 million worth of business activity in Philadelphia.

With a goal to modernize the facility and reduce operational environmental impact, plus offer visitors a safe, comfortable and positive customer experience, the facility's stakeholders wisely invested $15 million in infrastructure upgrades.

The strategic upgrade plan included deploying state-of-the-art air purification and ventilation, technologies that lower water use, energy efficient LED lighting, new reflective roofing, expanded recycling and streamlined management of HVAC, lighting and power.

Accomplishments

686k Operational cost savings

4.5M Kilowatt hours (kWh) saved

(worth $1.3M in monetary savings)

18% Reduction in energy consumption

2 Certifications achieved

LEED Gold and Global Biorisk Advisory Council (GBAC) STAR

Additional highlights:

Reflective roofing to cool the building
Expanded food and beverage recycling practices to lower waste
State-of-the-art air purification and ventilation systems
Individually monitored rooms that control the environment in real-time
Public access to "green screen" dashboards with real-time info
Integration of the two central heating and cooling plants enhancing redundancy

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Siemens provided demand response and building control software to help cut energy costs and CO2 emissions.

On the automated demand response side, the Convention Center can now interact directly with the local electrical utility company to better manage energy costs.

On the building controls side, a Siemens software front-end (Desigo CC) enables integrated building automation system fault detection using advanced algorithms and machine learning to predict failures before they happen.

This continuous automated commissioning capability improves equipment uptime, promotes timely preventative maintenance and enhances occupant comfort.

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