UBC David Strangway Building

Dialog Engineering approached Raven Supply for assistance in selecting a steam boiler and ancillary equipment that would be able to provide consistent dry steam for the autoclaves. Their biggest challenge was finding equipment that would be compact enough to fit inside the extremely tight mechanical room while providing enough horsepower to satisfy the load. The room is also below grade near the center of the building adjacent to a parkade, with ventilation fans creating negative pressure inside. While this may seem like an impossible combination of constraints, Raven Supply had the perfect weapon for the job, the Fulton VSRT.

With the VSRT’s ultra-compact footprint, Raven and Dialog were able to locate the boiler in a position that would allow adequate access for UBC’s maintenance staff, with just barely enough room overhead to service the burner. It took careful planning between UBC, Davidson Bros., and Dialog to ensure that enough clearance would be allowed after all of the piping retrofit work was completed. To overcome the room pressurization issue, the combustion air was ducted directly to the boiler’s intake.