Cooling Emergency Turns into No-Cost Upgrade for Kentucky School District
Antimicrobial HDPE cooling towers help Kentucky schools qualify for a government ESSER grant which funds total cost of two new units.
For a rural county school district in Kentucky, it started with an emergency failure of a cooling tower used in conjunction with the school’s HVAC system. The old, metal-clad cooling tower at the area middle school had required significant maintenance over the years. However, the district was hoping to delay the expense of having to replace it along with another metal tower utilized by the high school that was also nearing the end of its life.
“They needed a new tower, fast. Theirs was in real bad shape from years of rust buildup and they were experiencing all kinds of leaks — panel leaks, gasket leaks, everything,” said Zach McKinney, sales engineer at Bluegrass Hydronics and Pump, which helped the school district with the cooling tower replacement.