enclosed parking garage heating
enclosed parking garage heating
(OP)
I have a project where I need to heat a single story enclosed parking garage below an upscale apartment building. I plan on using a roof mounted, utility set fan to meet the 1.5 cfm/ft2 of exhaust per 2000 IMC. This results in approximately 25,000 cfm of exhaust air. Question: Should I heat the make-up air with an air handler(s) or draw untreated air through louvers and mount unit heaters throughout the garage? What arrangement is typical for a heated parking garage?





RE: enclosed parking garage heating
Initial cost vs operating costs,
Architectual Geometric building constriants for
equipment, louvers, ductwork, ect.
Proper air distribution.
Maintenance considerations :
accessability to equipment, will the building have it's own
maintenance crew or depend on out sourcing.
Availability of utilities hot water, steam or are you planning on using electric unit heaters ?,
Energy costs vs return on investment.
Location of building...geographical environmenatal ambient
conditions...( for building thermal storage) are we talking about
a parking garage in Atlanta, Ga, or Bismark North Dakota ?
You will end up with a lot of subjective answers instead of logical ones without detailed information.
RE: enclosed parking garage heating
The units heaters sould not caused pressurizarion problems because they are inside the space just heating the air.
RE: enclosed parking garage heating
RE: enclosed parking garage heating
RE: enclosed parking garage heating
RE: enclosed parking garage heating
Also I will provide CO detection system for automatic ventilation control.
Under normal mode: Outside air for ventilation can be reduced to .75cfm/SF and under emergency mode outside air could be even graeter that 1.5 cfm/ SF.
Outside air for Make up air unit can be controlled throgh VFD or combination of outside and return damoer.
RE: enclosed parking garage heating