The Mani Shop was built to retain the heat from the sun in all weather. On hot days or cold it has become apparent that the building design sometimes works too well. People with offices in the center of the building are often times sweating in the dead of winter.
This summer, a water based AC unit was installed to help with this problem. It works wonderfully. However, now that winter is here, an AC unit that relies on ground water will not cut it. So, identifying resources on hand, Mike and Ryan decided that cool air from the outside works just as well as cool water.
Therefore, our resilient team simply cut an insulated opening in an outside wall and connected home made ducts throughout the building. This will bring the cool air into the overheating rooms inside while maintaining the building's initial design feature.
Here you can see that Mike has all his ducts in a row.
Installation has begun.
You can see the opening from the outside here.
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