| Salt Lake City, Utah |
| |
During the $55 million renovation of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building, formerly The Hotel Utah, it was very important that the historic architecture and interior of the famous building be preserved and maintained. Even though the use of the building was changing from that of a hotel to an office building, the public areas of the building, ie, the lobby, meeting rooms such as the Nauvoo Room, and the Lafayette Ballroom that was converted into the chapel, needed to be preserved. Most of these areas of the building had inadequate ventilation and cooling, and in the case of the lobby did not have any cooling. It was absolutely critical through the design of the mechanical system, that a means of providing the necessary ventilation, heating and cooling be found while at the same time preserving the historic architecture. VBFA was instrumental in accomplishing these tasks. Cooling to the Lobby was accomplished by providing new air handling systems that delivered cooled air into the Lobby through well hidden registers in remote areas of the floor and in existing walls at the mezzanine |
|
|
levels. The new Chapel, formally the Lafayette Ballroom, was provided with a new air handler well placed and hidden behind the organ. New linear supply diffusers were carefully located in the existing ornate ceiling. The return air is returned from the floor through the existing pilasters, to the return air plenum above the ceiling. |
| |
This 480,000 GSF total facility renovation included 5 new custom air handling units on every other floor, a new chilled water plant including (3) 400 ton chillers for the entire building, a complete new hot water heating system and fin tube perimeter radiation system, a new mechanical system for the office spaces, conference rooms, new theater, new chapel, new meeting rooms, and new systems for all new restaurants on the 10th floor, including a plumbing system for all the restaurants, food service, and kitchens, and a complete new roof drain system, new fire protection system, and two new cooling towers on the roof associated with the new chilled water plant. An earlier feasibility study identified current code deficiencies, and made recommendations for retrofit and upgrades. |
| |
| |
|
