The Boone County Administrative Building is set to get a new cooling tower for its heating and air conditioning system.
On Tuesday, the Boone County Fiscal Court awarded the bid to install a new cooling tower for The Geiler Company, a Cincinnati-based commercial plumbing, heating and cooling contractor. The firm’s bid was valued at $119,037 and met all the county’s specifications and requirements.
A cooling tower extracts heat from water or air, then returns the cold water or air to cool down industrial air conditioning equipment, according to deltacooling.com.
Boone County Administrator Matthew Webster said the building’s current cooling tower is “past its useful life expectancy.”
“It’s been begun requiring additional maintenance and due to the complexity of replacement, lead time requirement for a unit of the size and implications of being without the unit which is the building would have no air conditioning for an extended period of time, it was identified for action in the currently approved budget,” he said.