Two teams from ESD now Stantec and Stantec join a total of 600 Women Build volunteers in this year’s effort by Habitat for Humanity to construct houses for Chicago women who might not otherwise be able to afford a new home. (Learn more about Habitat for Humanity Chicago’s Women Build.)
Throughout its 50-year history, ESD has been involved in a number of important innovations.
For instance, people take for granted that commercial office buildings will be cool when needed, but ESD’s engineering work with Unicom Thermal Technologies’ two chilled-water plants in the 1990s broke new ground.
The facilities – the largest ice-based district cooling system in the world at the time, which served more than 8 million square feet of commercial office space and involved 25,000 tons of cooling – featured advanced technology that sent chilled water to a building before returning it warm to the facilities to be chilled again. The process eliminated ozone-depleting refrigerants.
Find out more about ESD’s innovations by checking out our 50th anniversary e-book.
