Saving the ozone layer: One museum`s contribution
- Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ (United States)
This article describes how a hurried quest to find chlorine-free rooftop units paid off, enabling the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum to meet its schedule with ozone-friendly HVAC. The Museum began designing for the remodeling of its renovated coffee bar, gift shop, and aquatic exhibit in April 1994. The building was one of the original structures on the grounds. It had been constructed in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps and had undergone only one other major remodeling in 1952, when the Museum first opened. The remodeling plans called for adding air-conditioning to this previously evaporatively cooled area. Their conservation committee had been closely following the developments in the air conditioning industry and knew that the advent of ozone-safe unitary air conditioning was near. The question was how near. The construction timetable called for closing the involved wing on September 12, getting the contractor in on September 19, and reopening the upgraded section by Thanksgiving 1994. The gift shop concessionaire liked the idea of hosting an ozone-safe climate control system and felt it would certainly be worth the inconvenience if this meant a delay of a few weeks in the reopening of his business. He could not afford to wait several months, however. So with no time to spare, the Museum began investigating the status of alternative refrigerants in mid-July.
- OSTI ID:
- 62995
- Journal Information:
- Heating, Piping and Air Conditioning, Vol. 67, Issue 4; Other Information: PBD: Apr 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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