Case Study
Patients and staff are benefitting from the energy savings at St. Luke's
St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute is located in Spokane Washington. The facility is comprised of three buildings containing a total of 134,535 square feet. Patients from around the inland northwest corridor come to St. Luke’s to get quality therapy when recovering from accidents including brain injuries and other debilitating incidents such as strokes. The complex was built in the 1960’s and functioned as a hospital up until the 1990’s when it became a rehabilitation facility. Like many buildings of that era, it still utilized equipment that had become obsolescent and had exceeded its useful life. Vintage steam boilers were the source of heat and required an inordinate amount of energy to run. Air handlers needed to be replaced to improve the facility performance, comfor