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TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201d As East Texas experiences extreme heat, our news partners at KETK spoke with CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler where it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s critical to monitor its facilities\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 temperatures around the clock. KETK asked: It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s easy to manage your AC at home, but what does it take to cool down more than one million square feet?<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Around 45 men that are just constantly are working the main central plant and we do have a dedicated guy out there but, we have to watch it 24 hours a day,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Brad Pike, the Facilities Director for Christus Mother Frances.<\/p>\n
The maintenance team is responsible for keeping 1.5 million square feet cool. Pike estimates the buildings use around eight hundred thousand kilowatts each month.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153And if we anticipate a heat wave, you know like we have we just make sure all the equipment is functioning as designed, we have to do a lot of preventative maintenance,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Pike.<\/p>\n
When it comes to cooling your home versus a large facility, not only are the sizes of the units different but the process of cooling is too.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153In commercial buildings, we use large, chilled water systems, versus your house that uses refrigerant and has that little condense unit that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sitting outside,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Anthony Martin, Trane Technologies Director of Energy Services for Texas Northern-Louisiana region.<\/p>\n
Martin added that typically businesses use \u00e2\u20ac\u0153chillers.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What they do is they cool water down to about 40 degrees; we then pump that into large air-handling units that are inside of the building. That air-handling unit has really large coils and lots of airflow going through it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Martin.<\/p>\n
Evolving technology is a huge factor in managing temperatures. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Through our building automation systems our building controls, similar to how somebody would manage their house,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Martin.<\/p>\n
Pike shared that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also about being proactive. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This system helps alarm us, and let us know about any problems that arise,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Pike.<\/p>\n
Ensuring the hospital atmosphere is right at all times, for patients, staff, and life-saving equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201d As East Texas experiences extreme heat, our news partners at KETK spoke with CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler where it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s critical to monitor its facilities\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 temperatures around the clock. KETK asked: It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s easy to manage your AC at home, but what does it take to cool down more than one million square … Continue reading Local hospital on regulating facility temperature in extreme heat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1245576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/07\/66a410b7461362cd90c9d76509dab8a5-200x112.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Local hospital on regulating facility temperatures in extreme heat","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1245570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 07:21:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/07\/66a410b7461362cd90c9d76509dab8a5-200x112.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Local hospital on regulating facility temperatures in extreme heat","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1245570"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245764,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245570\/revisions\/1245764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1245576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1245570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1245570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1245570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}