Customer Stories

Read more about Trane Customer Stories

  • Commercial Facilities.jpg
    • Customer Story

    Commercial Facilities Services Oklahoma City, OK

    The outside and common areas of the two Corporate Plaza office buildings, managed by Commercial Facilities Services, had been recently remodeled and mechanical systems had been replaced. With utility costs continuing to run high, the property manager sought to further improve the facilities’ energy efficiency. As the company looked for solutions, they zeroed in on the buildings’ aging controls systems.

  • Lincoln Square.jpg
    • Customer Story

    Lincoln Square South

    Centralized chiller plant improves energy efficiency and occupant comfort; operates at .49kW/ton in part-load conditions.

  • JohnsonDevelopment_535x339.jpg

    Johnson Development Associates

    Connected Building Solutions improve visibility and control of building systems; reduce annual energy consumption approximately 15 percent; earn utility rebate of $25,000; provide 1.2 year payback.

  • Northstar_Center-Hero.png
    • Customer Story

    Northstar Center

    Northstar Center is a three-building complex consisting of two high-rise office buildings and the seventeen-story, twenty-four-hour Crown Plaza Hotel, built atop a six-floor parking garage. Building tenants are extremely diverse, consisting of lawyers, banks, shoe stores and a variety of other businesses.

  • CALMAC® Energy Storage - Model A Tanks
  • CrosstownConcoursePart2.jpg
    • Customer Story

    Crosstown Concourse - Part 2

    The Crosstown Development Team wanted its abandoned building to serve as a catalyst for growth in the arts, education and healthcare in an under-served area of Memphis. This team knew that creating a financially and environmentally sustainable “vertical urban village” would play a key role in revitalizing the neighborhood. They established a series of strategic goals to increase value for property owners, including: lowering operational costs, promoting sustainability, and maximizing asset potential. The group sought the resources of a strategic partner to align with them in building this community.

  • Lincoln Harris.jpg
    • Customer Story

    Lincoln Harris

    The aging infrastructure of the high-rise at 121 West Trade Street had become unreliable. Service costs were increasing as facility managers worked to resolve operational issues and maintain the aging systems. Ownership sought an equipment replacement solution, but was concerned with the disruption a full change out would cause.

  • CushmanWakefield_PolarisParkway_960x360.jpg
    • Customer Story

    Cushman & Wakefield/Polaris Parkway

    Building automation and energy management solutions help reduce annual energy usage by more than 225,500 kWh, greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent, and comfort complaints by 30 percent. Upgrades result in $20,000 annual energy savings and service cost avoidance of $35,000.

  • One Clearlake Centre hero.jpg
    • Customer Story

    One Clearlake Centre

    One Clearlake Centre is an 18-story, Class-A commercial office building housing tenants in a variety of industries including financial and legal services, office staffing and insurance. The LEED Silver Certified building is owned by AEW Capital Management, LP and managed by CBRE, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm. Committed to sustainability, CBRE was the first company in its industry to achieve carbon neutrality in its operations.

  • One Orlando Centre - hero.jpg
    • Customer Story

    One Orlando Centre

    Parkway Properties is a real estate investment trust that owns and operates high quality office properties located in toptier Sunbelt markets. A proud member of the New York Stock Exchange, Parkway focuses on providing exceptional service and innovative workplace solutions. It's the day-to-day attention to detail in the way they serve customers, enhance assets, and invest capital that makes the difference, and allows Parkway to create long-term value for its shareholders.

  • Coquitlam Centre hero .jpg
    • Customer Story

    Coquitlam Centre

    Morguard is a fully integrated real estate company that owns, manages and invests in high-quality, geographically diversified assets across North America. The forty year old company employs more than 1,500 professionals and is the property manager for Coquitlam Centre, a 9,350,000 sq ft retail shopping mall situated on fifty-seven acres of land in the Vancouver region.

  • One Commerce Square 960x360.jpg
    • Customer Story

    One Commerce Square

  • x-default
    • Customer Story

    Vancity Centre

    Vancouver City Savings Credit Union, known as Vancity, is Canada’s largest community credit union, serving the needs of more than 509,000 member-owners and their communities through fifty-nine branches. With environmental sustainability one of its guiding principles, Vancity is committed to energy efficiency, strives to do business in the most sustainable way possible, and is working hard to reduce its environmental footprint.

  • centralartsplaza_960x360.jpg
    • Customer Story

    Central Arts Plaza

    Efficiency upgrades result in a 1,000 KW drop in daily demand, rebates of more than $380,000, and a 96 percent reduction in hot/cold calls.

  • Sun Life Financial hero.jpg
    • Customer Story

    Sun Life Financial Center

    Bentall Kennedy, one of North America's largest real estate investment advisory and services firms, serves the interests of over 500 institutional investors and manages 134 million square feet of office, retail, industrial and multi-residential property throughout the United States and Canada. Sun Life Financial Center, one of Bentall Kennedy's properties, includes more than a million square feet of leasable area in two Class A office towers connected by a main atrium.

  • Financial Statement Services Inc hero.jpg
    • Customer Story

    Financial Statement Services, Inc. (FSSI)

    Founded in 1980, Financial Statement Services, Inc. (FSSI) is a nationwide, full-service print and mail leader, specializing in the secure, outsourced design, production and delivery of time-critical customer communications, such as statements, letters, bills and mandated compliance documents. Industries served by FSSI include financial services, insurance, public utilities, healthcare, government and others. Nearly 150 employees work in the company’s 168,000 sq ft corporate headquarters, a two-floor office building with security-access doors throughout and a glass-enclosed front lobby.

  • Katy Medical Plaza - hero.jpg
    • Customer Story

    Katy Medical Office Building

    The new Katy Medical Plaza sits on more than eight acres of land in a fast growing area just west of Houston. When finished, the three-building complex will provide 150,000 square feet of Class A medical office space for some of the area’s best-known and respected physicians. The first building, already completed, includes LEED features, such as a grass roof to help reduce heat load and cool the building inside; a cistern to collect rain water; a bicycle rack for tenant use; water retention capabilities for irrigation and building facilities; traction elevators to reduce electricity use; thick insulated walls for a tight building envelope; and high performance glass to regulate natural light.

  • Tiaa-cref hero.JPG
    • Customer Story

    TIAA-CREF

    TIAA-CREF has improved the comfort, reliability and efficiency of its headquarters building by replacing aging steam absorption chillers with Trane high efficiency chillers, upgrading its cooling towers, and installing an ice thermal storage system. The thermal storage system shifts energy use to off-peak hours, saving approximately $765,000 per year in operating costs, energy use and demand charges. TIAA-CREF is using Trane proprietary optimization control logic to maximize the chiller and cooling tower efficiency. The Trane New York-New Jersey Energy Services team completed this turnkey project for TIAA-CREF.

  • 55 Water Street, NYC, building interior.
  • New York city sunset panorama
  • The Wave 960-360.jpg
    • Customer Story

    The Wave Condominium

    Upgrade of The Wave Condo's HVAC by Aegis and Trane cut utility costs by 17-20%, saving $65K annually, with new efficient chillers and advanced control systems.

  • Municipal_Square-Page.jpg
    • Customer Story

    Municipal Square

    Municipal Square, a 100,000 sq ft office building in NJ, upgraded its HVAC with Trane, cutting energy use by 35%, improving comfort, and reducing utility costs.

  • tc-mc-realty-4.JPG
    • Customer Story

    HSBC Tower

  • 11_Madison_Ave_Thumbnail_992x600px_v01.jpg

    Sustainable Transformation: Trane’s Thermal Energy Storage System at 11 Madison Avenue, NYC

    Discover how Trane’s innovative Thermal Energy Storage (TES) system helped SL Green Realty reduce greenhouse gas emissions and achieve significant cost savings while enhancing the cooling efficiency of the iconic 11 Madison Avenue building in Manhattan.

    • Customer Story

    Merrick & Company

  • CoreSite-Hero.png
    • Customer Story

    CoreSite Realty Corporation

    CoreSite recently delivered its twelfth data center, the second of four planned data centers at its Santa Clara campus.

  • Bank of America Stadium Image.png
    • Customer Story

    Optimizing Comfort at the Bank of America Stadium

    Bank of America Stadium, home of the Carolina Panthers, partnered with Trane to overcome significant cooling capacity challenges and rising energy costs. Trane's turnkey solutions, including new chillers, variable flow piping, and advanced building automation, increased cooling capacity, improved efficiency, and reduced energy consumption, projecting annual savings of $80,000.

  • lagree
    • Customer Story

    VRF System Upgrade at CORE Fitness Studio

    Facing temperature and humidity issues in their previous locations, CORE Cycle.Fitness.Lagree, a high-end boutique fitness studio in Providence, Rhode Island, transformed its fitness experience by upgrading its HVAC system with a VRF (Variable Refrigerant Flow) solution with Trane.

  • VRF NY CSO
    • Customer Story

    Preserving History with Modern Comfort: Trane and Mitsubishi Electric VRF System at 10-27 46th Ave, Long Island City

    Explore how Trane and Mitsubishi Electric collaborated to design an HVAC system for the Trane New York City Commercial Sales Office, located in a 100+-year-old factory in Long Island City, New York. The challenge was to preserve the historic building's look and feel while providing optimal comfort for over 100 occupants in a space with limited mechanical equipment space and high ceilings.

  • California State Lottery.jpg

    Zero Net Energy and LEED Gold: California State Lottery Headquarters’ Innovative Energy Solutions

    The California State Lottery Headquarters partnered with Trane to create a sustainable and energy-efficient facility, including a Zero Net Energy pavilion, using solar panels and ice-based energy storage, while achieving LEED Gold certification and reducing cooling costs during peak hours by 21 percent.

  • Marine_Gateway_960x360.jpg
    • Customer Story

    Powering Efficiency at Marine Gateway Development

    Trane, in collaboration with FortisBC Alternative Energy Services and Pinchin Ltd, designed and implemented a low carbon district energy plant for the Marine Gateway development in Vancouver. The innovative plant combines geoexchange and heat-recovery systems to efficiently provide simultaneous heating and cooling to the mixed-use property, reducing energy use, carbon footprint, and achieving LEED Gold certification.

  • Encon Mech_1.jpg
    • Customer Story

    Custom Penthouse Replacement

    Original to the 1985 building, the penthouse unit serving the HVAC needs of the 100,000 sq ft, Class B office building had become unreliable, and ineffective at providing a comfortable work environment for tenants. Building owners were concerned about the ever-increasing hot/cold complaints and the potential for lost revenue due to tenant dissatisfaction. Knowing they could not survive another summer with the aging equipment, owners sought to replace building systems before temperatures began to heat up.

  • Von Braun Center.jpg
    • Customer Story

    Von Braun Center

    Originally built in 1974, the Von Braun Center has doubled in size over the years with four major expansions, and plans underway for construction of another 150,000 sq ft of space. While the renovations have allowed the center to increase the activities it can over, the additions have also contributed unfavorably to the performance of the facility’s mechanical systems.

  • Geisinger Hughes.JPG
    • Customer Story

    Geisinger Hughes

    Each floor of the four-story Geisinger Hughes Center North building provides 19,100 sq ft of space for the Geisinger insurance company offices and telecommunication operations. With the building approximately twenty-years old when it was purchased, operation of its original Trane equipment and controls had been extended beyond life expectancies. In addition, the primary heating source was electric duct heaters, which was resulting in high energy costs.

    • Customer Story

    50 California Street

  • Crosstown-Concourse-page.jpg
    • Customer Story

    Crosstown Concourse

    Collaborative effort delivers effective HVAC, controls, and energy management solutions to increase asset potential; helps realize $250,000+ in capital first cost savings and reduced life cycle costs of $1.3 million+; assists vertical urban village in becoming catalyst for growth.

  • Petroleum_Building-Page.jpg
    • Customer Story

    Petroleum Building

    Building owner objectives were to increase efficiency and reduce costs, allow more flexibility to maximize tenant comfort, and upgrade to an automated system with computerized controls and tracking that could be run by anyone.