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WEDI Report - Hastings School Retrofit

This report was compiled in response to the many questions, interests and comments about the first fully heated and cooled public school using Standing Column Geothermal Wells in New England, the HASTINGS School in Westborough, Massachusetts.

The document is designed to familiarize the reader with the value and the ease of installation of a practical retrofit of an existing all electric school using Standing Column Wells and geothermal heat pumps. During the 1950’s and 1960’s many schools were built with electric resistance heat and were so prompted by the then Federal aid to school assistance programs..

Magnified energy costs, the consideration and realization of twelve month schools and the concern that a community’s capital resources tied up in a school building are only useable for substantially less than a year – have made the geothermal heat pump an attractive school building asset.

“Green” or non-polluting buildings are also the genesis of the major upswing in the use of geothermal heat pumps systems for schools throughout the United States and Canada. As of the start of 2003 there were 1,200 schools in the US that were build new or were retrofitted with geothermal heat pumps. This document describes the first in New England that took the step and realizes a successful energy, cost and environmental savings from the installation of a GeoExchange space conditioning system

The report is prepared by Water Energy Distributors Inc., as the provider of the ClimateMaster Geothermal heat pumps, designer of Standing Column Wells and a participant in the overall design of this successful installation. While this document is not a formal report on the part of the Westborough Public School System it has been informally coordinated with the Westborough School systems, the designers and the installers before it was published.

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