Web Case Study: World's First Natatorium CFD Analysis Helps Engineer Tame Wild HVAC Design Variables of Huge H.S. Indoor Pool
GMB Architects+Engineers Inc. is the first engineering firm to use 3-D modeling for airflow, temperature and humidity performance in an indoor pool design project.
Consequently Harrison, a mechanical engineer at GMB Architects+Engineers Inc., Holland, MI, didn't hesitate for a moment when offered the world's first natatorium Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis for his ninth indoor pool project-the huge 16,500-square-foot natatorium of East Kentwood High School, in the Grand Rapids, MI, suburb of Kentwood.