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These Project Spotlights are examples of work we recently completed:

University of California, Berkeley - DOE Library

The DOE Library at the University of California, Berkeley, underwent extensive renovation and seismic retrofitting in the Fall of 2007. Brad Bidwell of Cold Room Solutions was asked to build a cooler/freezer combo in the basement of the building for storing valuable books and manuscripts.

“The history of the entire civilized world is stored in the box at UC Berkeley!” says Brad jokingly.

There were concrete columns and beams supporting the building that needed to be worked around. “The ceiling was a waffle pattern and to maximize the height, we had to notch around the waffle. Same thing for the vertical building columns,” Brad says.

To maximize the cold storage room, Imperial panels were used for the entire freezer, but only for the walls of the cooler. The ceiling with beam notches and the column wraps were built with liner panels. Imperial used the same metal finish as the liner panels so everything matched.

Attached are some drawings showing the difficulty of the construction; one drawing covers a cutaway of the construction on the waffle ceiling, the other drawing is an overhead of the entire room layout with detail on the support column surrounds. Everyone involved is pleased with the finished product.

DOE library cutaway pdf
DOE library layout pdf

Whether planning new construction or remodeling an existing space, a proper analysis and specification can win big bottom line rewards on an annual energy usage basis and on the overall construction investment. Contact our nearest rep to see what savings might be available in your project.