Fall 2018 | Issue 29 | Vol. 18

Tampa Bay Trane/Southwest Florida Trane News is produced for our customers and our associates.

Tampa Bay Trane ©2018

In This Issue

Trane and Tampa Bay Trane have been selected by Strategic Property Partners (SPP) to design and construct a new

district cooling plant that will serve the Water Street District in downtown Tampa. The district cooling plant is a key part of the $3 billion dollar investment being made by SPP, which is a partnership between Tampa Bay Lightning owner, Jeff Vinik and Cascade Investment, a personal wealth fund for Microsoft founder Bill Gates. The plant will have an initial capacity of 8,000 tons, but is being built with an eye toward future capacity expansion. In addition to reducing the overall operating costs of SPP’s buildings, the central chiller plant eliminates the need to put large and unsightly cooling equipment on the roofs of the project thus making these spaces available for recreation and outdoor restaurants.

The Plant will be located on the corner of East Cumberland Ave. and S. Nebraska Ave. adjacent to the Selmon Expressway on-ramp and will serve 9 buildings, including the Amalie Arena and new USF College of Medicine. The plant will contain one Trane ice making chiller and two Trane chilled water chillers, 98 Trane-Calmac Ice Storage Tanks, Aurora pumps with Trane variable frequency drives, Alva Laval Heat Exchangers, Marley Cooling Towers and a Trane Tracer Chiller Plant Control System.

Tampa Bay Trane was responsible for the installation of the underground chilled water piping system which began in late 2016 and is now complete. TLC Engineering is the chiller plant’s mechanical design engineer; Creative Contractors is the General Contractor and Blume Mechanical the mechanical contractor.

SPP Chiller Plant Project Commencement

New Clearwater Trane Supply Store is Now Opened! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

The Trane-Mitsubishi Joint Venture is Now Operational . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Trane’s New 200-450 Ton Agility Chillers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

S. Nebraska Ave & E. Cumberland Ave.

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This 3X increase in size has allowed us to bring many new services to the market. Trane Residential Systems is now under the same roof – with over $2M of single-phase equipment in stock ready to go. In addition, this full-service facility features a training center, conference rooms, and open office space. Most importantly we have much more inventory! We have gone “full line” in this expanded operation – pipe, fittings, diffusers and registers, ductboard, unitstrut, ACR copper – we have what you need. Come see how Trane Supply can be your “one stop shop” in Pinellas County.

New Clearwater Trane Supply Store is Now Opened!

Trane Supply 12385 Automobile Blvd.

Clearwater, FL 33762

Trane Supply’s newest store is open for business at 12385 Automobile Boulevard, Clearwater 33762. This 35,000 square foot location replaced our much smaller facility on 118th and U. S. Highway 19 (now closed).

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THE TRANE-MITSUBISHI JOINT VENTURE IS NOW OPERATIONALIn a few words, here’s how the new Trane-Mitsubishi business alignment will affect Tampa Bay Trane Customers.

Equipment Pricing and Sales:

Tampa Bay Trane’s New Equipment, Service & Contracting and Supply personnel now have access to Mitsubishi’s full line of M & P mini splits and VRF (Variable Refrigerant Flow) products on an equal footing with Mitsubishi’s existing representatives. Trane personnel have been receiving extensive training on Mitsubishi’s full line of products and will be able to provide product selection, installation and startup, and warranty support to owners, consulting engineers, servicers and mechanical contractors.

Whether you’re bidding a plan & spec job, creating a design build project or dealing with a replacement situation we can help. If you’re involved with a high rise apartment job, an office building or a residential home addition you can come to Tampa Bay Trane for Mitsubishi product support.

Product Availability:

Please contact your Trane sales representative for product ship schedules on plan & spec and bid jobs. Our six (6) Trane Supply locations will transition to stocking Mitsubishi M & P mini-split products early this fall. We anticipate being ready to serve your needs from our local Trane Supply Store inventory at our six (6) Trane Supply locations by November 1, 2018.

Parts and Warranty Support:

By November 1, 2018, all six (6) Trane Supply locations will also be ready to provide parts and warranty support for both current and legacy Mitsubishi equipment.

Existing Mitsubishi Representatives and Wholesale Distributors:

Mitsubishi’s current manufacturer’s representatives and wholesale distributors will make individual business decisions as to their future relationship with Mitsubishi.

The Future:

Tampa Bay Trane is excited about its involvement with the Trane/Mitsubishi Joint Venture and look forward to helping our customers apply and profit from this key new offering.

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Tampa Bay Trane/Southwest Florida Trane

For questions or comments please contact:

Sandy Tulecki sdtulecki@trane.com

(813) 877-8251

902 N. Himes Avenue Tampa, FL 33609 813-877-8251

6461 Topaz Court Ft. Myers, FL 33966 239-275-9420

Trane has been shipping the small, compact Agility Chillers in the 175-425 ton sizes for three months now. These machines are perfect for the replacement market where the ability to move a machine into a tight existing equipment room is of paramount importance.

The Agility Chiller line provides a reliable direct drive, multi-stage machine that is designed to fit through a 72” x 80” double door with zero disassembly and can fit through a single 36” single door by separating the unit into two factory designed pre-packaged sections. The Agility chillers provide competitive efficiencies but are not the most efficient machines in Trane’s broad lineup of chillers.

Agility Chillers offer excellent noise reductions compared to equivalent sized screw compressor machines.

Agility Chillers are now shipping on an 8 week production cycle but many sizes and voltages are available in packed stock in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Please contact your Trane representative for assistance with your chiller replacement needs.

Trane’s New 200-450 Ton Agility Chillers

Length (inches)

129.9 129.9 129.9

Width (inches)

67.4 70.7 70.7

Height (inches)

72.2 78.0 78.0

200 TONS 300 TONS 400 TONSCompressor

Size