Case Study
Occupant Comfort And The Silent Compliment
the university of montana keeps students and faculty happy and productive OCCUPANT COMFORT AND THE SILENT COMPLIMENT case study series tom javins – former associa te director – engineering and utilities university of montana, missoula, montana Across the 220-acre campus of the University of Montana there are hundreds of buildings. They range in age from well into triple digits to nearly brand new. And there’s always a project to do. Tom Javins, who oversees both energy production and energy use at UM, has seen just about everything. The library at the school has state- of-the-art systems in place to control heating and cooling, while other buildings are still heated by steam, with no control more advanced than a hundred-year-old on-off valve. In these many and widely varied