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Course Outline
Day 1
Welcome and Introduction
HVAC Fundamentals
- Abbreviations, standards, and references
- The need for environmental controls
- Ventilation and indoor air quality
- Buildings and energy efficiency
- Psychrometrics primer
- Properties of moist air
- Psychrometric chart
- Sensible and latent
Climate Control in Memory Institutions
- Preservation of heritage assets
- Change of conservation paradigm
- Climate related risks in museums
- Fungal growth and insects
- Chemical degradation
- Mechanical damage
- Evolution of environmental guidelines
- Acclimatization concept
- Lighting policy and access
- Costs of the preservation
- Balancing preservation and its cost
- Yale University Peabody Museum and ESC
- Passive storage facility in Vejle, Denmark
Day 2
Museum Mechanical Systems
- Climate control refresher
- Load calculations and energy modeling
- Climate control equipment overview
- Chilled water and D/X cooling
- Heating systems options
- Temperature and RH control equipment
- Automatic controls
- Energy conservation measures
- Equipment failure response
- Air filtration
- Vibration and noise concerns
- Testing and commissioning
Fire Protection for Museums
- What is fire?
- Fire safety concepts tree
- Fire detection systems
- Water-based fire suppression
- Wet and dry-pipe sprinklers
- Pre-action systems
- Water mist systems
- Clean agent fire suppression
- NFPA 909 overview
- Inspection, testing, and maintenance
Museum Electrical Systems
- Building power systems
- Emergency power
- Lighting
- Lighting controls
UW–Madison Site Visits
- Museum
- Chazen Museum of Art
- Elvehjem building
- Library
- Memorial Library
- Special collections
Day 3
Planning and Architectural Considerations
- Planning process and procedure
- Development of design criteria
- Historic building preservation
- Establishing aesthetic priorities
- Display case and casework design
- Integration of new MEP systems
- Case study of Beinecke Rare Book Library
Climate Control Strategy Exercises
- Access – preservation – sustainability
- Museum buildings
- Passive storage concept
- Classical museum design
- Historic house concerns
- Museum collection
- Paintings and sculpture
- Textiles
- Prints and drawings
- Archive
Collection Protection and Handling
- Environmental monitoring
- Pest control and precaution
- Water leak detection alarms
- Disaster preparedness
- Emergency remediation
- Handling materials on-loan
- Collection moving and storage
Museum Security
- Physical considerations
- Burglar alarm systems and monitoring
- Card access for locking devices and hardware and window glazing and doors
- Guard forces