Variable-Refrigerant-Flow Zoning System Helps Protect Museum's 'Nerve Centers': Temperature control guaranteed down to -10℉

摘要

In 2008, History Colorado, formerly the Colorado Historical Society, began planning a new headquarters and history museum in Denver's Golden Triangle Museum District. Designer MKK Consulting Engineers Inc. of Greenwood Village, Colo., was seeking a reliable, high-performance HVAC system to protect the museum's eight "nerve centers": four electrical rooms containing large transformers, switch-gear, network equipment, and lighting and breaker panels and four data closets loaded with database servers, IP-phone connectivity, fiberoptic equipment, an analog phone network, security equipment, and point-of-sale equipment. As required by the Governor's Office of Information Technology, the rooms needed to be maintained at 76℉. What's more, with historical data, communications, and security, as well as the function of sophisticated museum exhibits, at stake, the cooling system could not fail.