Florida Hotel Installs High-Efficiency HVAC System
A Hilton hotel in St. Augustine, Fla., has been fitted with a PowerCold proprietary environmental HVAC system and DuPont Caltrel® plastic heat exchangers. The new system is designed to control moisture and provide clean fresh air throughout the 72-room mid-rise hotel, including the guest rooms and public areas. The system is expected to operate with utility costs 50 percent below the standard systems installed in other mid-rise hotels with a return on investment in less than two years, according to PowerCold.
The hotel is a "hollow-square" design consisting of 19 separate buildings set around an inner courtyard and connected by an interior corridor. The facility features wooden balconies, cedar shake and tile roofs, and different elevations and color schemes, in an attempt to re-create the look and feel of St. Augustine's Spanish Colonial period.