Cooling the historic Palmer House Hilton.(Field Solutions)(The Palmer House Hilton)(Company Profile)
Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News, November, 2004 by Hanks-Checket, B.
CHICAGO -- The Palmer House Hilton hotel boasts a history few other U.S. hotels can match. It also holds a special place in the hearts of the HVACR community; it is the regular meeting site for the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) whenever the winter meeting takes place in Chicago, now every three years.
The grand hotel got an air conditioning upgrade this year thanks to Team Mechanical Inc. (TMI, Buffalo Grove, Ill.), which installed a new cooling tower. The equipment had to be helicopter lifted onto the roof of the 24-floor hotel.
TMI worked with manufacturer's rep Maddock Industries to purchase the new $250,000, 112,000-pound Marley Cooling Technologies cooling tower. That was the easy part....
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