HVAC Solutions For Higher Education

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HVAC & Higher Education
Engineered Solutions

Whether it's optimizing space, controlling sound, boosting energy efficiency, or enhancing indoor air quality (IAQ), ICT offers HVAC solutions tailored to meet the space, time, and budget needs of university projects.

Address Challenging Spaces

Access to mechanical rooms is often restricted by narrow entryways, freight elevators, high exterior louvers, and complex routes around existing equipment. Knockdown AHUs offer an effective solution for navigating these challenging spaces.

Reduce Noise

Noise control can be a critical component of an HVAC system and an important part of creating a successful building environment. ICT offers a variety of products and solutions for acoustic applications in all types of university environments.

Improve Indoor Air Quality

Solutions to improve IAQ include air purification, air disinfection, and improving ventilation. Solutions can be customized to address the requirements and goals for a range of spaces and applications.

Lower Operating Costs

An upgrade or replacement of inefficient or unreliable HVAC equipment can offer significant energy savings and improve sound levels, indoor air quality, and reliability as well as the net operating income and value of your building asset.

Case Studies

Proven Impact

Vanderbilt AHU Replacement
University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine
The University of Memphis Music Building

Background

Building access to mechanical rooms is often limited by narrow entry points, freight elevators, exterior louvers located several stories above grade level, and difficult pathways around existing equipment.

Mechanical rooms with complex ductwork, piping, and structural members require AHUs to be designed to specific physical dimensions, often to the nearest inch, in order to maximize performance for a given space allocation.

Background

The two large vaneaxial supply fans (70,000 cfm & 125 Hp each, 8.6 in.w.c. design static pressure) in the main air handler at the UF Veterinary Medicine building had been problematic for several years, due to both the age of the fans and the logistics of keeping the AHU off-line to make repairs.

The solution was to retrofit a FANWALL instead of the vaneaxial fans. Its modular design and customizable size made it easy to assemble in the supply fan plenum and fit the air handler's existing internal dimensions by being built in two sections.

Background

Facilities that store a large number of musical instruments need precise humidity control. Many instruments, including string instruments, are made of thin wood which are easily affected by temperature and humidity. This can be a challenge when retrofitting older air handling units that, in many cases, are using outdated technology that is neither precise nor energy efficient.

The scope of this project included the replacement of six units and the addition of one new unit, but with the strict requirement that the replacement units would fit on the existing equipment pads and match up to existing duct and piping arrangements.

Challenge: Replace old multizone Air Handling Units with VAV Air Handling Units and low energy humidifiers for tight humidity control.

Comprehensive HVAC Solutions for Higher Education

Bright Futures for Buildings

HVAC & Higher Education
Engineered Solutions