Systemair Provides Jet Fans for Boston Car Park

Trio Newton is a five-story mixed-use facility that features 238,075 SF with 140 residential units, ground-floor retail space, public outdoor space and includes a one-level underground garage with 236 vehicle parking spaces and over 180 bicycle storage spaces. The Washington Place site is located just steps away from the Newtonville commuter rail station with service to Downtown Boston.

Developed by Mark Development and designed by architectural firm Prellwitz Chillinski Associates (PCA), the development team hopes to achieve LEED Gold Certification with expectations of at least obtaining silver level certification under the LEED H rating system (LEED for Homes).

The constructing team ensured landscaping consisted of local and non-invasive plant-life. While the building itself, built by a team of experts specializing in high-performance buildings, was constructed with sustainable design characteristics.

A Sustainable Design

The five-story mixed-use project uses high-efficiency products and building processes to reduce energy cost and usage. Attributes of the Trio Newton apartments include the following:

• Tight building construction

• High-efficiency HVAC systems

• Filtered fresh air for each apartment

• Energy-efficient appliances

• Local and recycled building materials

• No-VOC paint

The underground garage utilizes 16 Systemair IV-50 Centrifugal Induction Fans to ventilate the space. When the CO2 sensors detect high-levels of CO2, the IV-50 Induction fans activate. They push-and-pull contaminated air towards the exit, "throwing" and "catching" jet streams from one induction fan to the next.

Aptly named, "induction fan", these fans induce airflow from the high impulse of air that the fans discharge. This impulse of air generates large volumes of airflow throughout the garage.

These jet fans eliminated the need for a ducted exhaust system, and saved the owners of the apartment complex thousands in installation costs.