Thermal Creek worked with Chandos Construction to install the geothermal ground loop heat exchanger as part of the renovations to an existing 75,000 square foot building located at 10010 107A Avenue, located on 2.5 acres of land.
King Thunderbird Centre Geothermal is part of the renovations to an existing 75,000 square foot building located at 10010 107A Avenue, located on 2.5 acres of land. The facility, operated by Boyle Street Community Services, will be known as King Thunderbird Centre and will provide housing, mental health support, and addiction counseling for 7,000 people annually.
Now completed, the new 85,600 sq. ft. okimaw peyesew kamik (King Thunderbird Centre) will expand Boyle Street Community Services reach in serving the most vulnerable communities within Edmonton, Alberta.
The geothermal ground loop field consists of 40 geothermal vertical closed loop boreholes drilled to 492ft deep each.
A total of 8 headers were constructed to optimize the fluid flow between the boreholes.
The installation of this geothermal field certainly was one of the most challenging that we have ever completed.
The site, while mostly new construction, was technically an inner-city retrofit. This meant very limited space for the drilling equipment to manoeuvre. The site also had a lot of existing underground utilities which made us feel like we had to play obstacle course with a drilling rig a lot of the times.
We did get the entire field drilled and installed on-time and on-budget.
