CHICAGO - The B Terminal at Washington, DC's Dulles airport suffered a catastrophic breakdown of their cooling system the summer of 1998, causing the B Terminal to lose climate control during the hottest days of summer. In response to this emergency need, NuTemp provided a rental cooling system to allow normal operation.
Facility engineer, Bill Rushing, called NuTemp on Thursday, July 9th to discuss options if their chiller plant problems could not be solved quickly. As events unfolded, it became clear that the chiller plant would not be repaired quickly, and that a rental system would be necessary. NuTemp was notified on July 10th that a 2000-ton system would be required on site, installed, and operational by July 15th. Several options were available ranging from two to nine chillers, generator packages, and accessories. It was decided to go with an air-cooled system consisting of nine chillers, two generators, and two truck loads of accessories. NuTemp drew upon its nationwide depot network and relationships with accessory suppliers, to coordinate shipments from five states to meet the project requirements.

NuTemp rallied its resources to provide the equipment from depots in Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Illinois, and as far west as California. A design engineering team produced the initial concept drawings and pieced together available equipment during a traditionally low point in seasonal inventory. Next the production and freight teams acted to coordinate shipments of both chillers and accessories. An installation team was assembled Friday afternoon, and flown to Dulles Airport to unload trucks, attach all piping and electrical cabling, and startup the temporary chiller plant.
The result of teamwork, both within NuTemp and with the customer and outside suppliers, was extraordinary. Equipment delivered without incident. Installation work went as planned. Startup occurred well before the June 15th deadline, providing much needed cooling to the terminal facility.

The system consisted of nine chillers (with 18 refrigeration circuits and 22 compressors), six water pumps, two megawatts of generator power, specially fabricated headers, and nearly one-half mile of electrical cable and temporary hoses.

The option available from NuTemp provided the airport authority with a high level of reliability, tremendous redundancy, and low risk in terms of further failure.