Despite Tight Budget, Pool Project Comes Out on Top
Budgetary restraints were challenging, but they didn't foil attempts by engineers, architects, and contractors to construct a state-of-the-art natatorium for Mainland Regional High School in the Atlantic City, NJ, suburb of Linwood. Funded by a closely watched public referendum, the $2.9 million Community Aquatic Center addition was part of a very budget-sensitive $10.6 million Mainland Regional update that included classrooms, existing building modernization, and other improvements.
"The challenge in the natatorium was to provide a high-performance dehumidification, heating, and cooling system that also met the client's energy-efficiency and budgetary requirements," says Michael Toy, P.E., Ph.D. Toy is chief mechanical engineer for mechanical/electrical/plumbing consulting engineering firm, Concord Atlantic Engineers Inc., (CAE) (West Atlantic City, NJ). A five-year-old company, CAE evolved from the former, well-known Harold Cohen Associates (Pleasantville, NJ).