Facilities
The facilities department at the Center of the West works hard to keep the museum up and running, read all about their current projects and unique points of view on the Buffalo Bill Center of the West.
A Year Maintaining a Museum
What does the Maintenance Department at your establishment of work mean to you? Are they simply the ones called when there’s a…
Mechanical Musings at the Museum
A building engineer coming into the Center of the West would see very little by way of mechanical equipment that he wouldn’t…
SEP-ARRA: Your Tax Dollars at Work
It was autumn of 2009, and the news was not good… The old steam boilers which provided heat and, indirectly, humidification for…
On Mechanical System Shutdown in Collection Storage Areas
Our chief conservator, Beverly Perkins, returned this week from the 42nd annual conference of the American Institute for Conservation held this year…
Air Compressor Efficiency Improvement: Facilites Compressor part 2
Our big Facilities air compressor has capacity control by way of what the manufacturer calls a poppet valve. As the compressor builds pressure to…
Air Cooled to Water Cooled Conversion: Facilities Air Compressor Part 1
In 2000 – 2002, the Center built its most recent additions to the building, the Facilities wing and the Draper Natural History…