Astoria Park Elementary School
Foodservice Consultants, Bob Land and Richard Scarbrough with Foodservice Design Concepts, Tallahassee, Florida have designed many projects over the years which are now the home to THERMO-KOOL walk-ins. Pictured above preassembled and awaiting final quality control inspection at the THERMO-KOOL factory is the walk-in for one of their most recent projects, The Astoria Park Elementary School, Tallahassee, Florida. The THERMO-KOOL walk-in was specified as an actual 23’2-1/2” x 11’2” x 8’6” high size to utilize the exact job site and walk-in storage space requirements. With THERMO-KOOL’s flexible and unique design capabilities the actual sizes were accomplished with every panel locked-in- place so there was no cutting and pasting needed in the field! To accommodate for the anticipated heavy usage the walk-in was provided with the THERMO-KOOL DURA-FLOOR, which has a stationary floor load capacity of 12,000 lbs. per square foot. The white stucco aluminum ceiling specified, along with four fluorescent lights, provide additional illumination on the interior of the walk-in. For additional protection on the exposed exterior and on the doors and jambs, a 3/16” aluminum treadplate wainscot and kickplates were provided. Other features of the walk-in included three hinges on each door with one of the hinges being spring loaded, vinyl strip curtains, a pressure relief vent in the freezer, foot treadles and audio/visual alarms with dry contacts. The refrigeration specified for the project was remote preassembled hermetic which was mounted on a two-tier stainless steel vertical outdoor compressor rack and provided with a one point electrical service line load center prewired to the condensing units. The refrigeration was also provided with heat exchangers, anti-acid line filters, weatherhoods, winter controls and environmentally commuted (EC) motors. Both the walk-in and refrigeration met the requirements of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. THERMO-KOOL Customer Account Representative, Debbi Tisdale worked on the project with Land and Scarbrough and THERMO-KOOL Customer Account Representative, Melissa Harrison worked with the foodservice equipment dealer on the project, Jim McCoy with Moore-Warren Equipment Company, Inc., Dothan, Alabama. |
