It seems that the State of Arizona has come around to his way of thinking. Recently, the state’s School Facilities Board, which governs all building improvements at state schools, established minimum facilities guidelines for all schools in Arizona. Any school that is measured against the new guidelines and exceeds them will eventually be converted from the commonly used evaporative cooling systems to air conditioning systems.
In the coming year, the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) is receiving nearly $72 million in state building improvement funding, much of which is being used to help convert a sizeable number of schools to air conditioning. The exact number at this time is not known. What is known by experts like Clayton, principal and owner of Clayton Engineering and Consulting in Tucson, is that air conditioning will eventually become the standard cooling system in most Tucson schools.