Heat Distribution Center Ltd. (CHDL) is a private district heating company located at 720 Beatty Street in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada that provides heat to the Downtown Core including the Vancouver Public Library Center, B.C. Place, GM Place, Queen Elizabeth Theater, Pacific Center and most hotel/office/condominium towers such as Shaw Tower through a 10.5 km high-pressure pipeline between five centimeters and 50 cm diameter running anywhere from one to five meters. below the road surface. The world-famous steam hour at Gastown is an important addition to more than 180 buildings served by a natural gas-fired boiler located in the downtown Stadion/Entertainment district.
The company was founded on November 1, 1968, by a group of engineers with a desire to lower heating bills for buildings (no boilers to buy and maintain) and to reduce the amount of pollution created to provide a hot city center. In 2014, the company was bought by developer Ian Gillespie for $ 32 million.
The large CHDL building occupying the western tip of Georgia Viaduct was once home to a printing press for Pacific Press newspaper publisher The Vancouver Sun and The Province.
Video Central Heat Distribution
References
Maps Central Heat Distribution
External links
- CHDL profile in ProfileCanada
- Vancouver Guest article about CHDL
- The City of Vancouver Clerk's report on CHDL
- The Google Maps satellite view shows the CHDL facility
- Vancouverhistory.ca story on CHDL
Source of the article : Wikipedia