Gordon Food Service® Goes Green with Greensleeves’ GeoModule™

Nov. 11, 2011 - PRLog -- Hamstra said the new building will be within the Gordon Food Service headquarters campus at 1300 Gezon Parkway, and will house 1,100 employees.  The GeoModule will reduce the geothermal earth heat exchanger size and cost by more than 20 percent over a standard geothermal system while increasing energy efficiency due to its advanced control technology.  

“Gordon Food Service wanted to select a green alternative to meet the building’s heating and cooling load.  The GeoModule offered a more advanced option to do so while reducing our impact on the environment,” said Kirk Mortenson, Director of Real Estate and Facilities at Gordon Food Service.  

The advantages that attracted Gordon included monitoring the loop temperature, giving control of key building mechanical systems, and notification of corrective actions. Construction is expected to be complete by late summer 2012.  

The GeoModule is a hybrid geothermal product that includes a prefabricated pump and controls package.  This ISO9001 factory assembled package reduces the borefield size, construction time, has a smaller footprint, reduces on-site labor and increases quality control.  The integrated control package leverages a cooling tower to keep the temperature of the loop at an optimal level.  “This solution will, along with government incentives, make geothermal an obvious consideration because first cost is lower plus the on-going energy and maintenance cost are reduced,” said W. Michael Linn, CEO of Greensleeves.  

Greensleeves LLC is a client company of the University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program at the Winter Springs incubator located at 1511 E. State Road 434.

About Greensleeves LLC
Greensleeves is an energy solution integration innovator that provides a unique combination of technologies and proven professionals that can deliver a 35-50% reduction in energy use for the life of a building with little to no increase in construction costs.  This solution is more comfortable, attractive, healthier, and less expensive to own and operate than the heating and cooling systems currently used in the U.S.  Greensleeves has locations in Ohio, Michigan, and Florida.  Visit www.greensleevesllc.com.

About the UCF Business Incubation Program
Since its founding in 1999, the UCF Business Incubation Program has helped more than 200 emerging companies (including more than 100 current clients) create over $200 million in annual total economic output  and more than 1,600 new jobs with an average salary of $59,000. With nine facilities across the Greater Orlando community, the Business Incubation Program is a collaboration in economic development between the University of Central Florida, Orange County, the City of Orlando, Seminole County, the City of Winter Springs, The City of Sanford, Lake County, the City of Leesburg, Osceola County, the City of Kissimmee, City of St. Cloud, Volusia County and the Florida High Tech Corridor Council.  Please visit www.incubator.ucf.edu and UCFBIP on Facebook.