ELMIRA, NY — Ice hockey locker rooms typically smell moldy and feel chillingly damp from a mixture of cold rink air and lingering humidity generated by showers, sweaty bodies, and poor ventilation that lacks an infusion of outdoor air.
The 20-year-old locker room of the ice rink at the Murray Athletic Center of Elmira College, Elmira, NY, was no different until hvac engineers and contractors came up with the idea of using makeup air dehumidifiers to correct the poor indoor air quality problem.