[Nhcoll-l] New HVAC - its a world of possiblilites

[Christian Baars]

Hi Katja,

What a great opportunity! You may want to consult:


-          Carolyn L. Rose, Catharine A. Hawks, Hugh H. Genoways (1995) Storage of Natural History Collections: A Preventive Conservation Approach (especially Andrew Sebor’s chapter)

-          PAS 198:2012 ‘Specification for managing environmental conditions for cultural collections’ https://shop.bsigroup.com/en/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030219669&_ga=2.41002666.96665885.1572355984-668568955.1572355984

-          Mecklenburg’s papers on ‘Acceptable ranges of relative humidity and temperature in museums and galleries’

-          Michalski (2007) ‘The ideal Climate, Risk Management, the ASHRAE Chapter, Proofed Fluctuations, and toward a full Risk Analysis Model’

-          ASHRAE [American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers]. 1999. Museums, libraries and archives. Chap. 20 in 1999 ASHRAE Handbook: Heating, Ventilating, and Air-Conditioning Applications, S-I Edition, 20.1–20.13. Atlanta: ASHRAE.

If you are buying a new humidifier get an ultrasonic one – we recently replaced all of our humidifiers with great results for stability of environments AND energy savings (will write this up in due course to enable others to consider this as an option). https://www.stulz.co.uk/en/ultrasonic/

Best regards
Christian


Dr Christian Baars AMA ACR
Uwch Swyddog Cadwraeth Ataliol / Senior Preventive Conservator
Amgueddfa Cymru / National Museum Cardiff
Telephone: +44 (0)29 2057 3302



From: Nhcoll-l [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Katja Seltmann
Sent: 29 October 2019 11:37
To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu
Subject: [Nhcoll-l] New HVAC - its a world of possiblilites

Hi all -
We are working with our university to get a quote to put an HVAC system in two smaller collection rooms. One is a herbarium and the second contains vertebrate specimens.

Has anyone done this recently and have any advice? Are there preferred requirements based on temperature and humidity?

Thank you,
Katja


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