. The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast . : _: 94 The Architect and Engineer Cost of Heating Schools in Chicago and Kansas City. The following data may be of interest: Chicago: Five schools, with both indirect and direct heating, all ofabout the same size, averaged, per cubic foot of space heated and ventilatedper season, pounds of coal. Five other schools of approximately thesame size, burning the same kind of coal in the same sort of boilers, buthaving indirect heating, averaged, per cubic foot of space heated and venti-lated per season, only pound of
. The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast . : _: 94 The Architect and Engineer Cost of Heating Schools in Chicago and Kansas City. The following data may be of interest: Chicago: Five schools, with both indirect and direct heating, all ofabout the same size, averaged, per cubic foot of space heated and ventilatedper season, pounds of coal. Five other schools of approximately thesame size, burning the same kind of coal in the same sort of boilers, buthaving indirect heating, averaged, per cubic foot of space heated and venti-lated per season, only pound of Kansas City: The Manual Training High School, having both indirectand direct heating, cost in fuel, for the year 1909-10, per cubic foot of spaceheated and ventilated, cents. The Westport High School, havingentirely indirect heating, cost in fuel for the same year, per cubic foot ofspace heated and ventilated, cents. Both buildings burn oil in similarboilers. In the Decatur plant direct radiation is used in all toilets, offices, cor-ridors or rooms with plumbing which might be injured by excessive advantage of having direct radiation in classrooms is that it tends tokeep them warm when the fans are not in operation, provided they arefurnished with steam. At Decatur the buildings were arranged in such amanner that it was possible to group the indirect radiation in small cham-bers near the banks of flues, and thus by gravity air circulation keep the / kt . h hti ? and i ngmeer 95 Attic• Return Air Damper * - New AirTight Window rooms reasonably warm without any
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