Heat recovery retrofit captures and uses waste heat to reduce load; lowers heating bills more than 75 percent; results in savings of nearly $300,000/year with an approx. three-year payback; moves facility toward carbon neutrality; and transforms museum into living lab to carry out its mission. Challenge With a mission to educate the public about science, engineering and technology, and make science accessible and applicable to everyone, the Science Museum continuously seeks to create solutions to improve the human experience. To this end, the organization set objectives to lower energy costs and its carbon footprint, moving on a path toward net-zero, where the total amount of energy used by the building would be equal to the amount of renewable energy created at the site. “We ha

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