RectorSeal, Panasonic Donate VRF System, Accessories to Arizona Church
GUADALUPE, Ariz. — Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church’s community center in the Tempe, Arizona. suburb of Guadalupe now has state-of-the-art HVAC thanks to variable refrigerant flow (VRF) equipment, accessories, and installation labor donations from RectorSeal®, Panasonic Air Conditioning Group — a division of Panasonic Corp. of North America, and Woody’s Heating and Air Conditioning, Peoria, Arizona.
The 13,000-square-foot, slump block-style building, which is a popular meeting place for the small town’s 5,500 Native American and Hispanic residents, frequently exhibited 100°F interior temperatures and above. Even before the community center’s six 40-year-old evaporative (swamp) coolers became inoperable recently, they struggled to reduce indoor temperatures below 90°F when ambient temperatures climbed above 100°F. Now VRF technology maintains the majority of the facility at a comfortable 76°F set point, while simultaneously reducing utility costs.