Cedar Rapids, IA
Taft was the fifth of six middle schools in the Cedar Rapids Community School District to be retrofitted with high efficiency geothermal heating, cooling, ventilation and energy recovery systems. The school is 127,000 square feet and near maximum occupancy. Shive-Hattery designed a geothermal system to replace the school's aging heating, ventilating and air conditioning system. The district adopted the use of alternative ‘green’ refrigerants where applicable in mechanical equipment, opting to discontinue use of the traditional HCFC R-22 well over a year ahead of the government mandate to do so.
The retrofit was conducted over two phases; starting early 2009 and completed just prior to start of school fall 2010. Taft Middle School is the second project in the District’s current construction program funded by the local SILO tax (School Infrastructure Local Option sales tax).
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tags: geothermal system, junior, middle, intermediate school