The kitchen may prepare individual meals, but its ventilation system was a smorgasbord of unusual and/or ineffective measures. Sample the task force’s recipe for success.
This article describes the remodeling of a hospital kitchen in which workers experienced high temperature and humidity levels, as well as turbulent airflows most of the year. Causes included both over- and under- specification of kitchen appliances and HVAC equipment. Among other issues, the kitchen was built, surprisingly, without mechanical cooling. At great expense, the kitchen was remodeled with an integrated solution that’s providing significant improvements in the kitchen environment.