This past May I wrote in the Back2Basics column about the design intent of a small city school system that chose to invest in an annual contract for a temporary air-cooled chiller for special events and emergency crisis shelter center. Now, this concept may sound foreign to many in the building industry, but this has been a niche booming business for years, so let’s discuss this.
If you peruse through your ASHRAE handbooks and try to find a chapter on how to design a temporary HVAC system for a building, you won’t have much luck. If you Google “designing a temporary HVAC building system” you will get pages of companies that furnish, install, operate, maintain, and remove temporary heating equipment/systems and also the same for air conditioning equipment/systems.