DePaul University Theatre School

Project Description

The Hill Group was selected as the HVAC contractor for the new five story, 175,000 square foot Theatre School building. The facility is comprised of two theatres, 10 acting laboratories, a fully-equipped scene construction shop and several rehearsal, seminar and conference spaces.

A 140,000 CFM custom fan wall penthouse air handling unit serves all floors. The project also includes two 250-ton water cooled screw type water chillers, two base mounted centrifugal chilled water pumps fitted with variable frequency drives, two cooling tower cells and two tower water pumps. The main 250 seat theatre has an 11,000 CFM air column supply fan, while the remaining spaces are served by 100 fan powered boxes with ECM motors and 50 standard VAV boxes with hot water reheat coils.