Project Profiles

District Cooling – Hotels & Luxury Resorts
District Cooling – Hotels & Luxury Resorts
The JW Marriott Guanacaste Resort & Spa in Costa Rica offers the ultimate Costa Rican vacation experience. With 310 luxuriously appointed guest rooms, including 20 Deluxe One Bedroom Suites, this luxury Costa Rican resort has quickly become known as one of the most magnificent resorts in Latin America.  Urecon U.I.P.® Pre-insulated pipe was used for chilled water distribution system throughout the resort. The term “URECON” is synonymous with pre-insulated pipe for district cooling throughout the tropical and sub-tropical climates of Latin America and the Caribbean.

View the photo gallery

UBC
Olympic Village-Vancouver
Read about the recent construction of a sewage heat recovery system for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic games in Vancouver, B.C..  This state-of-the-art district heating network will provide space heat and domestic hot water to all buildings in the False Creek and Olympic Village development through a Urecon supplied EN 253 pre-insulated piping network.

See IDEA article for details.
Stanford University – Steam to Hot Water
Beginning in 2012, the renowned school began converting an ageing steam distribution network to a modern hot water system. Stanford chose Kingspan LOGSTOR EN 253 piping compete with integral leak detection. Upon completion, over 32 km (20 miles) of pipe will be replaced.

Click here to read more
University of Rochester – Steam to Hot Water
University of Rochester – Steam to Hot Water
In 2006, Urecon supplied thousands of feet of Kingspan LOGSTOR EN253 European piping to the U of R in a successful landmark transition from a network of antiquated steam piping to an ultra efficient hot water district heating infrastructure.

See IDEA article for details.
Calgary ENMAX
This video examines the roots of Enmax District Energy in Calgary Alberta.  The heart of the system is a network of Kingspan LOGSTOR hot water underground pipes from Denmark.

Click here to watch
New Issue of Sustainable Business Magazine – with feature article on URECON

Internationally recognized, Dockside Green, a mixed-used harbourfront project in Victoria B.C., uses waste wood, backed up with natural gas, for its heating system.  It is known as a ‘triple bottom line’ development – one whose success is measured in social and environmental as well economic terms.  The master plan includes 26 buildings totalling 1.3 million square feet of mixed residential, office, retail and light industrial space ... all heated with a hot water district energy system using Kingspan LOGSTOR European piping from Urecon.

Get it now

Drake Landing
Drake Landing
The Drake Landing Solar Community (DLSC) is a master planned neighbourhood in the Town of Okotoks, Alberta, Canada that has successfully integrated Canadian energy efficient technologies with a renewable, unlimited energy source - the sun. The first of its kind in North America, DLSC is heated by a district energy system designed to store abundant solar energy underground during the summer months and distribute the energy to each home for space heating needs during winter months.

Visit the website | Watch the video | Read the brochure
Chilled Water Distribution - Industrial
Chilled Water Distribution - Industrial
Postobon is the largest manufacturer and distributor of non-alcoholic beverages in Colombia with 23 bottling plants throughout the country. It produces soft drinks and juices of the highest quality using state of the art technology throughout their manufacturing processes. Urecon U.I.P.® pre-insulated pipe was recently installed in their newest and most modern bottling plant to distribute chilled fluids to their production lines.

View the photo gallery

Insulated Pipes for Outdoor Wood Boiler

Click here to watch

Mining in the Extreme North – Freeze Protection
Mining in the Extreme North – Freeze Protection

Urecon specializes in freeze protection solutions for mining operations in the far north. For decades we’ve been recognized as leaders in design and supply of heat traced plastic (HDPE) piping systems – intended specifically for extreme cold temperature. Many of these remote sites are accessible only by winter roads. Far beyond access to hydro lines, northern mines generate their own electricity using trucked in diesel fuel. Urecon assists in optimizing complete systems to best deliver freeze protected piping - without excess electrical power consumption from heat tracing demands.

View the photo gallery

New Issue of Sustainable Business Magazine – with feature article on URECON

Get it now

Dockside Green