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The A. Bruce and Margaret R. Mainwaring Wing Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Mechanical and Electrical Engineers Completion Date: February 2002 Architects: Atkin, Olshin, Lawson-Bell and Associates Architects |
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The museum was founded in 1895, and was enlarged in 1912, 1926 and 1969. The need for collection storage and study space is the basis for the Mainwaring Wing addition to the Museum. It provides for five levels of approximately 16,000 square feet of storage space for their ethnographic collections, housed high density storage racks, strict controls of temperature, relative humidity, lighting and access.
The remaining space, approximately 9,000 square feet, is dedicated to curator offices, keeper rooms, collection study areas, seminar rooms and office spaces. These spaces are not considered to be within the conservation environment, and are maintained at temperature and relative humidity levels more appropriate for office occupancy. The system serving these spaces is equipped with an air-side economizer function to minimize mechanical cooling to the spaces in moderate outdoor conditions.
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Steam is provided by the central campus distribution system, and is used directly for humidification, and converted to hot water for the heating functions. In order to satisfy the dehumidification requirements of the conservation climate, two low temperature chillers have been provided (for redundancy purposes).
The building has been designed with dedicated mechanical systems to provide state of the art climate control systems. These systems include an outside air pretreatment system, particulate and gaseous phase air |