The new SCC facility is a large room, as you know. I'm sure there will be complaints about the temperature as we occupy it. To forestall these complaints, I want to make sure you understand the problems are NOT soluble at any reasonable cost. Its not like a house, where the occupancy load changes very little from time to time.

To maintain a constant temperature would require a huge investment in oversized equipment AND heating / cooling the room when nobody is present. Do not fool with the thermostat. Here's why.

Humans give off a temendous amount of heat. Sometimes, you can actually see "heat waves" coming off a hard-working, sweating worker. But even just sitting still, people generate a lot of heat.

So here's what happens with a large room. Let's say its heating season. The room has been empty all night. Its not smart to keep the room warm for hours on end with nobody in there, so the heating system has been turned off or the temperature setting has been low. So we show up a half hour early, and turn it on, or raise the temperature setting to a comfortable level. To have a unit large enough to raise the temp a few degrees in 30 minutes is very expensive. (Bear in mind, that everything in the room is cold, not just the air.)

Now 120 people show up, giving off heat. The temp rises above the temp setting, just because of the body heat. Perhaps the sun is shining, but we don't notice the outdoor temp is rising. Before anybody realizes it, the temp is too warm. But the thermostat is set to heat, because is WAS cold. When set to heat, and no heat is needed, the unit does not run! Duh! But the body heat and outdoor heat is conspiring to keep it too warm. The solution is to set the thermostat to "cool." If you don't, you could lower the thermostat to zero, and nothing would happen. (When set to "heat," a thermostat will attempt to keep the temp at or above the setting.)

Another factor is that since it was cold, we dress warmly, and now we're too hot. Solution -- wear a sweater and take it off at that time.

Now assume its cooling season. We arrive, especially in the middle of summer, and the temp in the room is too high, and the humidity has risen, to save energy overnight. Here again, to have a unit large enough to lower the temp a few degrees quickly and to remove the humidity, would be too expensive. The unit is running flat out to lower the temp, and 120 people show up, giving off additional heat and humidity. The worst of all worlds, so to speak. The cooling unit is sized to handle the heat load of the occupants, but not instantly.

One again, fooling with the thermostat's temperature setting will not help -- the units are always dong their best to heat or cool as fast as they can. They're either all the way on, or all the way off. Changing the temp will not help -- it will only make things worse, in the long run.{easycomments}