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Board weighs heating and cooling options after Cornell restricts LakeSource expansion
Summary
Ithaca City School District officials briefed the board on options to cool and heat Ithaca High School after Cornell University told the district it could not expand the campus’s LakeSource cooling service to cover additional building space.
Ithaca City School District officials briefed the board on options to cool and heat Ithaca High School after Cornell University told the district it could not expand the campus’s LakeSource cooling service to cover additional building space.
Chris (district architect/consultant) summarized four comparative options for completing high-school cooling: (1) add 600 tons of capacity to supplement Cornell’s 400‑ton LakeSource allocation (traditional cooling tower plus gas boilers); (2) install a 1,000‑ton district system that would make the high school independent of LakeSource; (3) a ground‑source heat‑pump (GSHP) system sized to supplement LakeSource and also serve Boynton Middle School; and (4) a large GSHP system to serve both buildings independent of LakeSource.
The first‑cost estimates showed the traditional cooling‑tower approach…
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