Every year, facility engineers across California shut down their heating boilers for the off-season — and every year, a significant number of those boilers come back online in the fall with corrosion damage, pitted waterside surfaces, or fireside scale that wasn’t there in the spring. The culprit, more often than not, isn’t equipment age or […]
Spring boiler replacement planning is the work most facility managers never get around to — until a crisis forces the decision in October. By then, lead times have stretched, your air district permit is still pending, and you’re heading into heating season with a boiler that may not make it through. That’s not a strategy. […]
California’s heating season winds down quietly, not with a dramatic failure, but with a gradual reduction in demand until the boiler simply isn’t needed anymore. That transition is exactly when most facility managers make their biggest mistake: they shut it down and walk away. A boiler that goes into off-season layup without a proper spring […]
The boiler that sat idle all winter doesn’t know what’s at stake when you fire it up in April. Your production schedule does. For food processing facilities in California’s Central Valley, spring often means ramping up for seasonal campaigns, restarting lines after maintenance shutdowns, or bringing new capacity online before peak demand hits. A planned […]
Cold mornings have a way of exposing things that looked fine a few weeks earlier. A steam system that held steady in October can start to drop in boiler steam pressure and become stubborn once winter load shows up. We see it every year in California plants that rarely think of themselves as cold weather […]
Facilities managers know the first cold week is when everything you meant to do in August comes back to haunt you. When you are responsible for a hospital, hotel, or a high‑rise full of tenants, a boiler that will not fire or hold pressure is more than an inconvenience, it is a direct hit to […]
ABOUT UC DAVIS Founded in 1908, the University of California, Davis, is a public land-grant research university. Much of its research relies upon boiler equipment. The Kenneth L. Maddy Laboratory, located on the UC Davis campus, processes thousands of samples every day to ensure the health and safety of animals from around the state, including […]
For a commercial food processing facility, keeping boilers operational is essential. They generate steam used for cooking, processing, sanitizing, and packaging product. When a boiler fails, or needs to be shut down for a significant amount of time for repairs, the business suffers. In most cases the business has to halt plant production. In the […]
New Boiler at Chabot College Increases Efficiency and Reduces Carbon Footprint ABOUT CHABOT COLLEGE Founded in 1961, Chabot College is an accredited community college located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Building heat and hot water are provided by a central plant. PROBLEM Initially equipped with boilers in each building, Chabot opted to centralize heating […]
