PORTFOLIO
Newseum
Pennsylvania Avenue
The Newseum is a 471,000 square foot multipurpose museum, located near the U.S. Capitol on Pennsylvania Avenue. The building includes 250,000 square feet of exhibit space, 100,000 square feet of administrative offices, and 135 luxury apartments. Owned and operated by the Freedom Forum, the museum boasts such exhibits as the remains from the antenna of the World Trade Center, the Unabomber's wood shack and eight sections of the Berlin Wall, and Checkpoint Charlie - the daunting guard tower perched behind the Wall. There are also two operating TV studios that broadcast year round in what is touted as one of the most interactive museums ever built.
Kirlin's work includes two 900 ton chillers and one 350 ton chiller, which feed 30 air handlers. There are four dual temperature pumps supplying both radiant heating and cooling to twenty one different zones through the structure. Four cooling towers, located on three separate roof areas, supply condenser water to the chillers as well as heat pumps in the residences and several CRAC units. There are two extensive kitchens operated by world famous chef Wolfgang Puck. The intricate nature of the project meant that our piping systems had to weave through an extraordinary amount of temporary structural steel to support the unique architecture as it was built up.
