While the scenery is beautiful, the temperatures in Lexington are not always so pretty. Summers are usually hot and humid, while winters can be bitterly cold. In an ideal world, every building in the city would have a furnace and air conditioner installed to keep occupants comfortable throughout the year. However, that's simply not possible, as some structures were not designed to accommodate comprehensive ducted systems.
Ruskin, a manufacturer of louvers and dampers, occupies just such a building here. Its 80,000-square-foot manufacturing facility is housed in a former warehouse, which has concrete walls, 30-foot-high ceilings, no windows, and no economical way to provide heating and cooling to the entire space. With employees complaining about being hot in the summer and cold in the winter, something needed to be done. Fortunately for Ruskin, the solution presented itself in the form of some truly Big Ass Fans.