The Butterfly at Burrard and Nelson

A striking 56-story residential tower in downtown Vancouver using a unique heat exchange system to deliver clean and efficient heating while supporting the expansion of Creative Energy’s low-carbon district energy network.

Project details and overview

Client Served

Creative Energy

Location

Vancouver, British Columbia

Mechanical Contractor

Chapman

Project Consultant

FVB Energy

Equipment Details

Maxi-therm DMCU Vertical Instantaneous Duplex Heat Exchanger Package

The Butterfly is an iconic 56-storey tower, design inspired by church organ pipes, with 294 residential units from 1 to 3 bedrooms, open garden courts, café, restaurant, fitness room and swimming pool located in downtown Vancouver. The towers are connected to the Downtown Vancouver district energy plant, owned, operated and maintained by Creative Energy.

This Maxi-therm Steam to Water Heat Exchanger System will provide clean, reliable, and affordable heating to the new LEED Gold, Revery Architecture Inc. designed tower and serve as an expansion node with up to 18MW of future capacity. This will enable our low-carbon district energy system to meet the needs of future residents in South Downtown and the West End neighborhoods.

The Maxi-therm Steam to Water Heat Exchanger operated in a lead-lag configuration. Meaning one, or both units can operate in parallel depending on the steam load. Two heat exchangers also provide redundancy should one of the heat exchangers need servicing. Maxi-therm provides an OEM control package with each of their skid systems, allowing for connection to owner controls and remote support and monitoring from the factory.

We are pleased to express our great experience working with Raven Supply in procuring, installation, and operation of a 4MW Steam to Hot Water Commercial Grade Skid. The team at Raven Supply has been highly responsive, taking ownership of any concerns and addressing them promptly throughout the design, registration, delivery, installation, commissioning, and operation of the purchased equipment. All parties involved in the project have expressed satisfaction with the outcome, and the project management team has met all expectations. We have installed similar systems with other products, and the quality of the Raven Supply package stands out amongst the others. We look forward to working with Raven Supply on future projects

Sepehr Safafar Project Engineer, Creative Energy

Products used in this project

The Butterfly

Domestic Water Heat Exchanger

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