The renovated department contains 230 individual pieces of equipment for student training including commercial and residential air conditioning units, refrigerators, furnaces, heat pumps, and more. It also features a climate-controlled training and testing area, in which students can be trained and evaluated in the conditions under which they will one day be working.
The new, open layout was designed to be conducive to instructing a large class, with each student working on his/her own equipment. The areas separating commercial and residential training are now more clearly defined, too.