90 Eglinton Avenue West is a 6-storey commercial office tower located on the north side of Eglinton Avenue and one block west of Yonge Street. Built in 1972, the 107,716 square foot building is managed by Madison Group with the Subway and TTC at its doorstep.
With an abundance of underground parking available for its mixed-use tenants, Madison Group strives to continuously improve the building’s environmental footprint by eliminating energy waste through no-cost energy efficiency measures.
The office tower is enrolled in Energy@Work’s Energy Management Action Plan (E-MAP) aimed at improving the building’s performance through operational improvements. The no-cost measure of modifying the fan’s schedule to match the building’s current facility requirements (CFR) was identified and implemented by the building operator resulting in immediate savings and elimination of energy waste.
Graph 1 shows the fan’s schedule prior to the last week of January 2020 running 24 hours/day. The operator scheduled the fans off for 4 hours from 2 - 5AM during this un-occupied period. A 76-kW baseload reduction was the result – see Section B.
On February 21st, the operator again adjusted the fan schedule to shutdown 1 hour earlier than the previous schedule to match the CFR, resulting in further kWh savings – see Section C.
