The Reserve
ROSEVILLE, MN | 8,000 SQ FT | OFFICE
ENERGY SAVINGS: ROSEVILLE CO-WORKING BUILDING ENERGY COSTS LESS THAN HALF OF OTHER LOCATIONS
CHALLENGE:
The Reserve is a premiere suburban co-working space that offers accessible office locations across the Twin Cities for small businesses, startups, and entrepreneurs. After installing the Airoverse system in their Edina and Woodbury locations and finding it a valuable source of energy savings, facility managers also included the system in the construction specifications of their new Roseville location.
The Reserve’s Roseville location is its largest to date, featuring multiple conference rooms, a kitchen, and 52 separate offices occupied by clients with varying temperature requirements and schedules. The Reserve’s building owners were looking for an easy way to manage temperatures across all offices and all three locations, as well as a building control system that was flexible enough to manage the fluctuating building capacity. Their modern Roseville building also features floor-to-ceiling windows, meaning temperatures need to be balanced between the lobby and the interior offices.
SOLUTION:
Dynamic Airflow Balancing (DAB) was implemented across all 59 zones at The Reserve in Roseville. Airoverse installed a Central Control Unit (CCU) in each zone to allow occupants to adjust temperatures to their liking within a specified range. Finely tuned damper controls were added to ensure that each office stayed at the desired temperature without affecting nearby rooms.
The solution also included the Smart Stat, an integrated in-room, wall-mounted user interface with seven onboard sensors and thermostat zone controls for dual-stage HVAC equipment. The Dynamic Airflow Balancing package also included Airoverse Remote Temperature and Humidity (RTH) sensors, which take thermal snapshots every 60 seconds. Sensor data is analyzed along with weather forecast data via cloud analytics to send the optimal control strategy to the Central Control Unit (CCU).
The Roseville location features floor-to-ceiling windows on the east side of the building. To maximize operational efficiency, Airoverse zoned the space accordingly, using separate RTUs to control the exterior zones affected by the windows, and the interior offices, which aren’t as affected by sunlight warmup. Unoccupied or underutilized offices are set as low priority in the system, which means they’re allowed to drift outside the set temperature range to reduce energy waste.
"Airoverse allows me to have building flexibility the same way that I allow flexibility for small businesses."
– MARY B. / CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
RESULTS:
Airoverse has brought incredible efficiency to The Reserve co-working spaces. Despite the space being twice as large, energy costs are less than half of those in their original Edina location, where Airoverse only controls a portion of the building. Thanks to comfortable temperatures, occupants enjoy a better work environment and increased productivity.
With Airoverse for Facilities, our suite of web and mobile apps, building owners and facility managers at The Reserve enjoy insight and control across all their offices and locations. Temperatures can be remotely scheduled and adjusted, and the health of the system can be monitored to ensure maximum efficiency.
The Reserve is always looking for its next location across the Twin Cities.
“I guarantee you that when we find that next location, we’ll be partnering with Airoverse.” – Mary B. / Chief Operating Officer