Refrigerated Trash Room
Refrigerated Trash Room
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We area a consulting firm here in the East Coast and I am assigned to do a multi-use commercial project which includes hotels, retail and parking garage.
Unfortunately the retail side will have a restaurant in the future and one of the client requirement is to have a refrigerated trash room. This space will probably serve two restaurants in the future but will be built as part of the shell building construction. It would have been easy to deal with if we have a food service consultant on board since they usually will provide a prepackage room similar to a walk-in cooler. But as we all know in the consulting business nothing is easy.
So, has anyone have done a design for refrigerated trash room? What institution has the design guide? I would imagine I will need to maintain 40-50F DB and 30RH to minimize odor and decay. Any exhaust requirement?
Thanks for the response in advance.
Unfortunately the retail side will have a restaurant in the future and one of the client requirement is to have a refrigerated trash room. This space will probably serve two restaurants in the future but will be built as part of the shell building construction. It would have been easy to deal with if we have a food service consultant on board since they usually will provide a prepackage room similar to a walk-in cooler. But as we all know in the consulting business nothing is easy.
So, has anyone have done a design for refrigerated trash room? What institution has the design guide? I would imagine I will need to maintain 40-50F DB and 30RH to minimize odor and decay. Any exhaust requirement?
Thanks for the response in advance.





RE: Refrigerated Trash Room
RE: Refrigerated Trash Room
Maybe a small exhaust would be useful to keep odors from going out of the room.
BR
RE: Refrigerated Trash Room
The design must take into account outside air makeup (for exhaust), corrosive fumes, corrosive condensate, flies, vermin, and fire hazard. How long will this garbage be stored?
This project looks to be potentially messy (no pun intended).
RE: Refrigerated Trash Room
If there is such a requirement in the spec it's because they got bit on a past project where they neglected to include one up-front. So there is someone in the developer's organization who knows all about this. Make some calls and ask.
RE: Refrigerated Trash Room
RE: Refrigerated Trash Room
Thank you guys for the insights.