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ATI Airtest brags of award

2014-03-21 08:50 ET - News Release

Mr. George Graham reports

AIRTEST RECEIVES AWARD FOR ENERGY SAVINGS INITIATIVES IN RETAIL CHAIN STORES

ATI Airtest Technologies Inc. has won a partnership award for innovative energy solutions based on a six-year project to retrofit Shoppers Drug Mart stores across Canada with AirTest carbon-dioxide sensors used for demand-controlled ventilation (DCV). In this project AirTest partnered and worked closely with Sandcastle Energy Systems, the installing contractor. Through the use of AirTest CO2 transmitters in the DCV program, Shoppers Drug Mart was able to achieve significant reduction of electrical and natural gas loads. In the province of Ontario, Shoppers Drug Mart has lowered energy and maintenance costs at over 240 sites in Enbridge Gas territory, over 150 sites in Union Gas territory and at over 750 sites across Canada. The DCV retrofit program was established in over 90 per cent of Shoppers Drug Mart's large-format stores.

The award was presented to AirTest by Energy Solutions Center, based in Washington, which is a non-profit organization of 54 energy utilities and 51 equipment manufacturers that work together to bring new, energy-efficient natural gas solutions to residential, commercial and industrial customers.

Also receiving an award were the large retail chain Canadian Tire and its engineering group Inviro Engineered Systems, which worked with Union Gas to install AirTest CO2 transmitters in 65 Canadian Tire retail stores in the Union Gas franchise area. A DCV installation ensures the stores are never overventilated or underventilated, so it reduces unnecessary heating and cooling. This initiative saves Canadian Tire over 1.2 million cubic metres of natural gas a year, thereby reducing Canadian Tire energy costs by over $240,000 annually.

Mike Schell, vice-president, marketing and business development at AirTest, worked closely with Shoppers, Sandcastle and Enbridge Gas in Ontario to develop a CO2 DCV value proposition for big box retailers. This has resulted in a DCV retrofit rebate program throughout Ontario sponsored by the Ontario gas utilities. Mr. Schell said, "Our CO2 DCV energy analysis program, which is available free from our website, has been used by a number of utilities like Enbridge to qualify DCV retrofit energy savings for possible rebates and to calculate the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the various retrofit applications."

AirTest has also been involved in a number of other DCV retrofit projects, with its CO2 sensors being installed in big box stores including Lowe's, IKEA, Target and Kroger stores in various parts of North America. AirTest has also supplied sensors for hundreds of school retrofits, some universities, civic buildings, airports and many other buildings where there are variable-occupancy patterns.

According to AirTest president George Graham: "The energy savings and greenhouse gas reduction from our technology is significant. Based on the past three years, our sales of sensors used in DCV applications total 73,000, which will provide energy savings of an estimated 530 million kilowatt-hours per year and result in an annual greenhouse gas reduction of 420,000 tons of CO2. According to U.S. EPA statistics, this is equivalent to operating 82,000 passenger vehicles for a year or providing electricity for 55,000 homes for a year. We are proud of the role we play in energy conservation as a green technology company."

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