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Title: School architecture; a handy manual for the use of architects and school authorities
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Bruce, William George, 1856-1949 Bruce, William Conrad, 1882- Bruce, Frank Milton, 1885- (from old catalog)
Subjects: School buildings
Publisher: Milwaukee, Johnson service company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ND VENTILATING The Problem.—It is an established fact thatevery school building to properly perform thefunction for which it is erected, must be equippedwith a good system of heating and ventilation.Tests of the temperature effects on pupils, thevitiation of air in confined use, and the greatchanges and variations in climatic conditions,have made the installation of both systems anabsolute necessity. Heating and ventilation arethe very heart and vitals of a building, uponwhich depends the success or failure of its en-tire construction. Briefly, the problem of heating and ventilat-ing is this: The air of a schoolroom must bemild and agreeable and equally warmed in allkinds of weather and in every corner of theroom. It must be pure and properly moistened.Fresh air must enter a room and foul air be re-moved in such quantities that no portion of itwill be breathed into the lungs of the pupilstwice. On account of the great danger to healththis is not to be effected by the opening and 139
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140 Heating and Ventilation closing of windows, but by some automaticmeans which guarantees even better air thanopen windows can supply. The temperaturemust be controlled by some self-working tem-perature regulating device which will readilymaintain a certain, uniform degree of heat. Airmust be brought into a room without noise,draught or annoyance of any kind, and must beremoved in a similar manner. It is almost needless to say, that the temper-ing and supply of air is not a problem whichmay be left to the inexperienced or uninformed.While most architects know in a general way therules for the heating and ventilation of schoolbuildings, only a few are able to give expertjudgment on its planning and installation. It isthus, absolutely necessary, especially where theproblem is at all large, to employ expert as-sistance, not only to ensure an economical in-stallation, but also to obtain a system that canbe used at a minimum of cost during the lifetimeof the building. Again, it is necess

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