Energy Efficiency at Whiting Field

摘要

Naval Air Station Whiting Field, located north of Pensacola, Fla., is one of the U.S. Navy's primary pilot training bases. The installation provides training for the Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Coast Guard, and U.S. Air Force student pilots, as well as pilots from allied nations. Once home to the famed Blue Angels Flight Demonstration Team and the Navy's first jet training unit, Whiting Field is now home to six training squadrons and two instructor squadrons. With facilities sprawling across 12,000-acres and two airfields, it accounts for nearly 1.5 million annual flight operations. Commissioned in 1943, Whiting Field faced an aging infrastructure that it needed to update for long-term reliability. Inefficient mechanical equipment such as air handlers, chillers, pneumatic controls, and lighting had to be replaced.