Facility Benchmark Tour- Memorial University

MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY CORE SCIENCES FACILITY BENCHMARK TOUR OCTOBER 19-23, 2014

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ITINERARY SUNDAY OCTOBER 19 - TRAVEL DAY MONDAY OCTOBER 20 University of Wisconsin

Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery

Wisconsin Energy Institute College of Engineering TUESDAY OCTOBER 21 - TRAVEL DAY WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 22 Harvard University University of Massachusetts THURSDAY OCTOBER 23 University of Toronto Ryerson University FRIDAY OCTOBER 24 - OPTIONAL STAY

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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN Madison, Wisconsin

Location: Madison, Wisconsin Founded: 1848 Campus: 936 acres (main campus) Enrollment: 42,820 Chancellor: Rebecca M. Blank

In achievement and prestige, the University of Wisconsin–Madison has long been recognized as one of America’s great universities. A public, land-grant institution, UW–Madison offers a complete spectrum of liberal arts studies, professional programs and student activities.

Spanning 936 acres along the southern shore of Lake Mendota, the campus is located in the city of Madison.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is one of the preeminent research universities in the world. They achieved that distinction by continually pushing the frontiers of research, scholarship and creative work.

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Some of the most exciting and important advances are at the borders and connections among disciplines and require multidisciplinary collaborations and the integration of concepts from many different areas. While it is important to maintain and build on strengths in core disciplines, they also must facilitate cross-disciplinary work if we are to remain at the forefront of research, scholarship and creative activities.

The initiative also will enhance cross-disciplinary student learning and benefit our state’s economy. Between 2005-2012 the State committed over $500 Million in new multi-disciplinary research facilities.

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WISCONSIN INSTITUTES FOR DISCOVERY

The Discovery Building, completed in December 2010, houses the public Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and the private Morgridge Institute for Research in a single, fourstory facility constructed on the entire 1300 block of University Avenue (bordered by Campus Drive, North Randall Avenue and North Orchard Street) on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus.

The building serves as a hub for interdisciplinary research – spanning biotechnology, nanotechnology and information technologies – that will lead to the development of new biomedical treatments and technological applications aimed at improving human health and welfare. It contains approximately 106,000 assignable square feet of research space, including wet and dry laboratories, research support areas, core facilities and offices.

As a gateway to campus for the public, the building also is home to teaching labs, designed as “dream” collaborative learning environments. The labs host a wide range of education programs for K-12 and college students, science teachers and the public.

The main floor of the facility was built as a Town Center to welcome all with food, interactive displays, ongoing activities, hands-on learning labs, events and meeting spaces. It includes public gathering spaces and restaurants designed to revitalize the streets around the facility and enrich the campus environment.

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DETAILS Floors two through four of the Discovery

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“Communicating stairs,” open and wider

Building house research laboratories with

than utilitarian stairs, with room at

each floor hosting a research pod dedicated

the landings to pause for conversation

to the private Morgridge Institute, a research

or enjoy a view of the outdoors, bring

pod for the public Wisconsin Institute for

people together.

Discovery, and an integrated workspace

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design for scientists from both institutes.

Features of the Discovery Building include: •

Straight halls are non-existent; spaces are flexibly open to encourage interaction and accommodate collaboration.

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Common areas invite large and small group discussion and discovery.

Smart boards and flat screens are

Total Square Footage 328,000 Occupancy Date December 2010

close at hand.

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Labs were designed so they can be changed to match wet or dry research needs to provide flexible long-term use.

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This is the first research facility at UW–Madison constructed with a geothermal heating system.

Architect Ballinger Engineer GREAF Affiliated Engineers Inc.

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WISCONSIN ENERGY INSTITUTE

“We needed a building that was functional, flexible and that sparked the ‘random collisions’ between scientists from different disciplines that can catalyze the breakthrough advances that are our goal. The facility also needed to respect the research being done there by applying state-ofthe-art strategies to conserve energy use and optimize the use of renewable resources. HOK and its team understood those necessities and delivered a winning solution.”

HOK, in association with Potter Lawson, designed the new Energy Institute to help the University of Wisconsin meet the global challenge of finding alternative energy sources and creating renewable energy through development of sustainable technologies, such as the conversion of plant biomass into cellulosic ethanol.

This first of its kind, world-class facility for alternative and bio-energy research, provides a platform for creating economically viable and environmentally sustainable alternative energy resources.

Prominently located on the edge of campus, the building provides great opportunities for networking and collaboration with government and industry leaders; while an education and public outreach suite, including biofuel demonstration gardens, helps bring energy issues to the public.

An embodiment of the sustainable focus of the institute, the Energy Institute proudly

Tim Donohue, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center Director and UW Professor of Bacteriology

displays and incorporates sustainability into the building: from the field of prairie grass outside the front door, to the entry lobby video screen displaying building efficiency to visitors, to the highly energy efficient, low velocity fume hoods on the lab floors. The project achieved LEED Gold Certification.

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DETAILS

FACTS

The facility houses the DOE-funded Great

This first phase includes research space

Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC),

that focuses on molecular biology, chemical

and the Wisconsin Bio-energy Initiative

engineering and organic chemistry research.

(WBI), along with cross-disciplinary teams from eight departments in two colleges at the university:

Total Square Footage 107,000

Equipped to take ideas from discovery

Occupancy Date

to product, the facility supports multiple

January 2013

activity scales from basic research, through

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Agronomy

pre-technology

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Bacteriology

applications. The research labs are incredibly

development

and

into

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Biochemistry

flexible to accommodate current research

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Biological Systems Engineering

programs, and adapt to future initiatives as

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Sustainability & the Global Environment

they are developed. Development programs

Center

are further supported through a 1,400-sq.-

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Computer & Electrical Engineering

ft. applied engineering high-bay laboratory

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Entomology

for solar and biofuels projects, and a central

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Engineering Physics

NMR.

Architect HOK Architects Inc. Engineer Affiliated Engineers Ltd.

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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

The UW-Madison College of Engineering consists of eight degree-granting departments— biomedical engineering, chemical and biological engineering, civil and environmental engineering, electrical and computer engineering, engineering physics, industrial and systems engineering, materials science and engineering, and mechanical engineering. Its ninth department, engineering professional development, is one of the nation's oldest and largest continuing education programs for professional engineers.

The college is home to 44 research centers and 21 research consortia, which collaborate directly with industry and government to identify and solve key engineering challenges.

The College of Engineering Centre Building was first constructed in 1931, built around an existing machine shop that had been built 10 years prior. Major remodelling and a new electrical and data infrastructure enabled the existing ME building to support modern research labs and classrooms.

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DETAILS The Engineering Centre Building features: •

One 150-student lecture/tech transfer auditorium

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One 75-student virtual reality demo

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Energy efficiency and renewable energy

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Polymer Processing Lab

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Nuclear Reactor Laboratory

Total Square Footage 205,000 Occupancy Date

classroom •

Six 35-student lecture/CAD/flexible classrooms

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Two 12-student “creativity labs” with storage for ongoing student projects

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Manufacturing systems engineering

2002 Architect Flad Architects

teaching lab •

Simulation teaching lab

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Human factors teaching lab

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Financial engineering teaching lab

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Mechatronic and biomechanical design

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Micro-/nanosystems

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Computational and experimental

Engineer Affiliated Engineers Ltd.

mechanics •

Automation and robotics

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY Boston, Massachusetts

Location: Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts Founded: 1636 Campus: 5,083 acres (total real estate holdings) Enrollment: 21,000 Chancellor: Drew Gilpin Faust

Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders in many disciplines who make a difference globally. Harvard faculty are engaged with teaching and research to push the boundaries of human knowledge.

The range of research activities at Harvard is broad and deep.

Harvard scholars conduct research in almost every field, and seek to expand human knowledge through analysis, innovation, and insight. Research is supported by more than $750 million of sponsored research funds each year, and it is carried out both

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in the departments of the thirteen Schools and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and at more than 100 research centers, on campus and around the world.

Established in 1636, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States. The University, which is based in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, has an enrollment of over 20,000 degree candidates, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. Harvard has more than 360,000 alumni around the world.

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SHERMAN FAIRCHILD BUILDING

In June 2009, Harvard University began the design of an ambitious two-year renovation of the existing Sherman Fairchild building at 7 Divinity Avenue in Cambridge to accommodate Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology (SCRB) research. The primary purpose of the project was to provide exemplary workplaces for both research and academic staff in a healthy and productive environment, while achieving robust sustainability goals at a competitive capital cost. This project reflects Harvard’s commitment to sustainability and to building healthy and productive workplaces that support the University’s academics and research mission while reducing the impact on the environment.

In 2009, Payette was retained to plan, program and design the comprehensive renovation of a 100,000 SF research building constructed in 1978. Following an assessment of the existing envelope, mechanical and electrical systems, it was decided to renew both the programmatic space and the infrastructure needed to support new programs. We focused on strategies which placed these spaces adjacent to the exterior envelope where they could benefit from natural light and views outside. This discovery, among others, led to the development of a radically different laboratory floor organization than what had existed previously. It was also highly prototypical for this science.

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DETAILS Employing a number of progressive design

FACTS Specific engineering systems:

strategies to meet aggressive energy targets and reduce water use, this comprehensive

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Manifold Lab Air Handling Units

renovation achieved LEED-CI 3 Platinum

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Manifold General Lab Exhaust Fans

Certification in March 2012; it has achieved

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Enthalpy Wheel Energy Recovery on

the highest number of LEED-CI points (95) achieved by any LEED-CI lab project in the

General Exhaust •

world to date.

Program Components included: •

Stem Cell

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Regenerative Biology

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FACS/Flow Cytometry

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Histology

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Zebrafish

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Research Labs

107,866 Occupancy Date 2011

Separate Fume Hood Exhaust System With Capacity to Expand

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Total Square Footage

Dedicated Zebrafish AHU with Heat

Pipe Energy Recovery

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Internal Heat Shift Chiller

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Chilled Beams with Minimum ACH Labs

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Fan Coil Units in High Load Labs

Architect Payette Engineer R.G. Vanderweil Engineering

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UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON Boston, Massachusetts

Location: Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts Founded: 1964 Campus: 175 acres Enrollment: >16,000 Chancellor: J. Keith Motley

The University of Massachusetts Boston is nationally recognized as a model of excellence for urban public universities. The scenic waterfront campus, with easy access to downtown Boston, is located next to the John F. Kennedy Library and Presidential Museum and future home to the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate.

UMass Boston boasts approximately 50 interdisciplinary research organizations that bring faculty and students together from across the university to pursue research, teaching, and service on broad scholarly and social topics.

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INTEGRATED SCIENCES COMPLEX

Classes start in spring 2015 in the Integrated Sciences Complex (ISC), the first new academic building on campus in nearly 40 years. The new building will advance student and faculty access, engagement, and success with state-of-the art research, teaching, and training laboratories. It will promote collaboration among students, faculty, staff, and visitors while opening doors to strategic and community partnerships and funding opportunities.

The ISC will also be the first green building on campus to earn a U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver Certification.

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DETAILS

FACTS

The new space will feature:

Specific engineering systems:

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Research lab and support space for biology,

chemistry,

environmental

sciences, physics, and psychology •

Undergraduate

introductory

An

interdisciplinary

Vivarium component on upper floor

biology

Lab Wings are 100% outside air,

Occupancy Date

Stacked AHU’s (260,000 cfm total lab

Fall 2014

airflow) undergraduate

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sandbox teaching lab •

An infant cognition lab

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Two new research centres - the Centre for Personalized Cancer Therapy and

Administration

Wing

Recirculated

system (50,000 cfm total airflow) •

Chilled Beams in Admin. Offices and

Architect Goody Clancy

some Laboratory areas.

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the Developmental Sciences Research Center

220,000

(30,000 cfm total airflow) •

teaching laboratories •

Total Square Footage

Konvekta Energy Recovery system for Laboratory pre-heat.

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Large

Atrium

with

Smoke

Control

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Exhibition space

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Conference rooms

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Atomizing Humidifiers

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Food services and lounge space

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150 ton heat shift chiller

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Supplemental Chilled Water System

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Low Temperature Hot Water Reheat

Engineer R.G. Vanderweil Engineering

System

System

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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO Toronto, Ontario

Location: Three campuses; Downtown Toronto St. George Campus, Mississauga, and Scarborough Founded: 1872 Campus: 705 acres (total for all three campuses) Enrollment: >83,000 Chancellor: Meric Gertler

The University of Toronto is dedicated to fostering an academic community in which the learning and scholarship of every member may flourish, with vigilant protection for individual human rights, and a resolute commitment to the principles of equal opportunity, equity and justice.

Pharmaceutical sciences is a broad and multidisciplinary area of research that encompasses all aspects of drug therapy.

This includes the design, synthesis and characterization of new medicinal agents, studies to understand their mechanisms

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of action, assessment of their effectiveness for treatment of disease, identifying their optimal clinical use for improving patient care, and the economics and policies that define best practices for their essential role in the health care system.

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LESLIE L. DAN FACULTY PHARMACY BUILDING

Opened in 2006, the Leslie L. Dan Pharmacy Building is a state-of-the-art 167,000 square foot teaching and research facility and the gateway to the University of Toronto.

Equipped with over 40,000 square feet of research space and numerous lecture halls, classrooms and teaching laboratories, the building supports the academic, research and teaching needs of well over 1,300 people on a daily basis.

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DETAILS

FACTS

The building is lifted above a 20m-high,

Two reflective silver-coloured pods are

five-storey, colonnaded circulation space,

suspended within the main space, which

which matches the cornice heights of two

change colours according to the light

neighbouring listed university buildings and

conditions, adding a striking focal point for

the nearby Ontario Parliament Building. This

the faculty. The larger pod houses a 60-

daylit space is the hub of undergraduate

seat lecture theatre and a reading room,

activities, providing quick and easy access

while the other houses a 24-seat classroom,

between the basement lecture theatres and

a quiet study lounge for undergraduate

the laboratories and the library as well as

students and the faculty lounge. Wet labs

encouraging interaction between students.

for postgraduate research are housed on the

A soaring atrium pierces the height of

upper floors of the building.

Total Square Footage 167,000 Occupancy Date 2006 Architect Foster + Partners

the building providing visual connections

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between all floors as well as creating a

H.H. Angus, M&E Engineer

central hub for student, faculty and staff.

On the upper floors of the building, there

Yolles, Structural Engineer

are laboratories dedicated to research in the pharmaceutical sciences and pharmacy practice as well as the administrative offices for the faculty.

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RYERSON UNIVERSITY Toronto, Ontario

Location: Toronto, Ontario Founded: 1948 Campus: 21 acres Enrollment: >38,000 Chancellor: Lawrence Bloomberg

Ryerson is Canada’s leader in innovative, career-focused education and a university clearly on the move. It is a distinctly urban university with a focus on innovation and entrepreneurship.

Ryerson has a mission to serve societal need and a long-standing commitment to engaging its community.

The Department of Computer Science is located at The Centre for Computing and Engineering. Moriyama & Teshima designed the new Centre for Computing and Engineering on the urban campus of Ryerson University in the heart of downtown Toronto, Canada. The building features a sculptural treatment of the

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Church Street facade that dramatically changes throughout the day as the sun and ambient light varies. At times reflective and at time transparent, the building is a distinctive symbol of Ryerson.

The facility brings together a number of departments including Aerospace, Civil Engineering, Computing Science and Electrical and Computing Engineering. Design started in February 2002 and the facility opened to students in the fall term of 2004.

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CENTRE FOR COMPUTING AND ENGINEERING

The new Centre for Computing and Engineering located on the urban campus of Ryerson University in the heart of downtown Toronto features a sculptural treatment of the Church Street facade that dramatically changes throughout the day as the sun and ambient light varies.

This project includes tenancy for the Computer Sciences Department with hardware and software labs, lecture halls, faculty offices and engineering labs for aeronautics and structural groups. The mechanical design uses city central services of steam and chilled water for primary energy sources.

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DETAILS

FACTS

The main challenges of this project included

An efficient lighting plan was employed

the distribution and adequacy of services to

typically using fluorescent fixtures with T8

meet needs of high occupancy and variable

lamps and electronic ballasts controlled by

loads, high energy efficiency design, the

occupation sensors.

reduction of background noise levels on a tight budget. The significant energy efficient design features include the following:

Due

to

the

sustainable

225,000 Occupancy Date

technologies

considered in the building design, a $60,000 grant was awarded as the Ryerson building

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Efficient VAV and lighting systems.

was found to be 28.9% more efficient than

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More effective thermal envelope.

the reference MNECB building.

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Energy from equipment used to reheat supply outdoor air.

Total Square Footage

2004 Architect Moriyama & Teshima Engineer

The VAV systems utilize variable frequency

Crossey Engineering Ltd.

drives (VFD) for fan modulation and CO2 demand

controlled

ventilation

(CO2

controlled ventilation efficiency not included in CBIP overall efficiency calculation). VFD modulation was also used for the heating and cooling circulating pumps.

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