The Brigham Young University Ezra Taft Benson Science Building is a 176,000 sq. ft. multi-story chemistry laboratory building. The facility's mechanical system was designed to meet the dynamic functions of a high tech research and teaching laboratory with an emphasis on energy conservation. The Ezra Taft Benson Science Building was designed to be one of the finest state-of-the-art laboratory facilities in the country.

	Special System Characteristics:
	196 fume hoods with proximity sensors to reduce eration cost
	Deionized pure water system
	Heating from campus HTHW system
	Cooling from campus central water plant
	Heat recovery system
	Hood velocities, 100 fpm, any sash position
	Dynamic exhaust hood air flow
	Variable volume laboratory exhaust system
	Variable volume terminal reheat
	Building wide laboratory gas and vacuum systems