On days when the outdoor temperature rose above 100°F, the church’s parish center struggled to keep the interior temperature below 90°. This caused the space to go almost entirely unused in summer, a time when the children of the community were seeking activities.
What began as an inquiry about a single cooling tower replacement at Mooresville, Indiana-based auto parts manufacturer TOA USA evolved into a multi-building, A-Z design-build project that resulted in a two-cell, stainless steel counter-flow replacement cooling tower.
This month’s B2B focuses on the conversion of an existing 1 million-square-foot commercial office building’s record computer-aided drawings (CAD) to building information modeling (BIM) drawings.
This month’s B2B focuses on a new cooling tower to serve a pharmaceutical facility’s new process water system. This tower will be a closed-loop, evaporative condenser to operate 24/7/365.
This month’s Facility File focuses on retrofitting a hospital’s patient floor with the addition of one fan-powered HEPA filter unit per patient room on a 30-patient room floor. The Facility File will focus on the B2B September test to improve the room air-purification environment and to trap particles that are 0.3 microns or larger.