McKenney’s installed an HVAC system with innovative energy management controls at a national restaurant chain’s corporate campus in Atlanta.

2. Project Name
Experimental Kitchens
for Restaurant Chain
Project Location
Atlanta, Georgia
Project Team
Owner: Corporate Restaurant
General Contractor: Choate
Construction Company
Architect: Smallwood, Reynolds,
Stewart, Stewart & Associates, Inc.
Engineer: Newcomb & Boyd
Contractor: McKenney’s, Inc.
Specializations
Energy Management
Markets
Corporate Campuses

3. McKenney’s installed an HVAC system with innovative energy
management controls at a national restaurant chain’s corporate campus
in Atlanta.

4. The Challenge
The project entailed renovating an existing warehouse to create
multiple experimental kitchens for developing new menu items. Every
kitchen had it own cooking exhaust hoods that required replacement
make-up air to keep the building positive. Each kitchen also had
different airflows and make-up boxes, which were only designed to
match 50 percent of the exhaust.
The Solution
The balance of the make-up air had to be furnished by temperature
control air. To accomplish this, McKenney’s installed two variable
volume air handling units with terminal boxes for temperature control
and separate terminal boxes tied to the exhaust hood control. For
times when temperature demand dipped below 50 percent, the team
modified the controls to be continuously variable to adjust and
respond to variable exhaust flows from the hoods.
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5. The Results
By enlisting its extensive programming knowledge, McKenney’s
successfully delivered a complex HVAC energy management system
with building positive pressure.

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