For the past three weeks, my co-workers and I have been working on a construction project downtown.
The new office building will house 150 offices and conference rooms.
Right now, we are putting up drywall in the building. The building is 7 stories tall and we are only two floors through the installation job. That building hasn’t been outfitted with an HVAC system yet, so we have been using a portable chiller to cool the building. It’s 95 degrees outside and the humidity is 100%. It’s impossible to focus on work with such extremely high heat and humidity. My co-workers and I would not be able to work well with the hot temperatures if we didn’t have a portable chiller. The foreman on this job rented a 500-ton portable chiller. It arrived on the back of a semi truck. The portable chiller is locked inside a fenced area right next to the building. There are large tubes running from the water cooled chiller to the building. The large tubes distribute air through the building. In order to save time and money, we only cool one floor of the building at a time. All of the tubes are blowing cold air into the third floor right now. We are halfway done with the drywall on that floor. Thursday, we will move the portable chiller tubes to the fourth floor. That space will be cool while we work on completing the drywall. The portable chiller provides plenty of cool air and comfort while we work and the job gets done more quickly when my coworkers and I are comfortable on the jobsite.