Consulting engineer David Strunk, P.E., held his breath every frigid day last winter when he drove by the Pocmont Resort & Conference Center in Bushkill, PA. Once he saw that not one molecule of moisture had clouded the hotel’s new 6,000-sq-ft, all-glass, indoor swimming pool enclosure, he let out a sigh of relief.
It’s not that Strunk’s hvac design or the installation of mechanical contractor, R.J. Groner, (Stroudsburg, PA), and pool structure consultant/contractor, Omega Pool Structures, (Toms River, NJ), lacked integrity or ingenuity. And it wasn’t that Strunk’s dehumidification equipment choice wasn’t first rate because he specified a custom-manufactured dehumidification system designed especially for the space by Dectron Internationale (Roswell, GA). Instead, Strunk felt no hvac design and equipment could battle the combined elements of sub-zero weather conditions outside and the quickly-evaporating 82˚F water of a 28,000-gal pool as well as a 1,800-gal, 100˚F spa on the inside of a clear glass and metal enclosure.