California Medical Office Sidesteps Installation Challenges with New Louvers
Retrofitting a commercial HVAC system to accommodate an existing building can be challenging. In many cases, the building and the original system were not designed to meet current codes and design requirements that impact IAQ and energy efficiency.
A large medical office building in California presented the director of engineering at a Ruskin representative on the West Coast with an even bigger challenge — one he had never encountered in his almost three decades with the company. In addition to a system that used two large air handlers housed in two separate rooms on the building’s roof, a permanent pipe ran diagonally behind the building louvers in both rooms.